John Burningham Paperback published October 1992 in United Kingdom Steven is sent out for groceries on to the mean street of the city with only a shopping basket for protection. A touching and thought-provoking parable from the brilliant John Burningham that highlights the dangers of judging too quickly. The Shopping Basket by John Burningham, 303, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Steven is sent out for groceries on to the mean street of the city with only a shopping basket.
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Steven is a nerdy looking kid with skinny legs and glasses, but a sly one when it comes to outwitting the various animals who make demands on his market basket. Sent to the grocery store to buy 'six eggs, five bananas, four apples, three oranges for the baby, two doughnuts, and a package of crisps for your lunch,' Steven is met on leaving the store by a bear who demands his eggs. 'If I threw an egg up in the air, you are so slow I bet you couldn't even catch it,' challenges Steven--thereby saving all but the one tossed egg. And so he deals with a monkey who wants the bananas, a kangaroo who is after the apples ('If I threw an apple over that tent, you're so clumsy I bet you couldn't even jump over to get it'), a goat (there goes an orange. . .), a pig (. . . and a doughnut), and an elephant--whom Steven leaves with his trunk stuck in a letter box, reaching for the crisps. Is Burningham sneaking an arithmetic lesson in between lines? Well, not so anyone would notice, with all the fun of seeing Steven, who looks so unprepossessing, facing up to all the commanding animals. Then Burningham gives the joke another turn with a characteristic poke at an obtuse Mom: 'How could it have taken so long?' Sly and satisfying.
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For several generations, John Burningham’s work was childhood, be it his own picture books (i.e. Mr Gumpy's Outing, Courtney, or Avocado Baby) or his occasional projects for texts not his own (The Wind in the Willows, the sadly out of print Chitty Chitty Bang Bang). Twice winner of the Kate Greenaway Medals, Burningham debuted as a children’s writer and illustrator in 1963 with Borka: The Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers, kick-starting a career that would cover over sixty books. He passed away in 2019.
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Unicode text file format. Burningham resolutely refused to talk down to children, his picture books brimming with playful sophistication and a refusal to give absolutely everything away. Married to fellow writer and illustrator Helen Oxenbury, despite his evident genius at the drawing board Burningham was always cautiously modest about his talents. ‘I quite like having achieved something,’ he once said of his work, ‘but the building up to doing a drawing is no easier for me now than it was 50 years ago, and I don’t really feel I have any ability until I manage to produce something that works.’
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