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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
illustrated by John Burningham
- Author: John Burningham
- Category: Fiction
- Publisher: Puffin Books(UK)
- Pub date: May 2008
- Length: 128 pages
About Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond novels, wrote only one children’s book – and it is a classic! CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG is the name of the flying, floating, driving-by-itself automobile that takes the Pott family on a riotous series of adventures as they try to capture a notorious gang of robbers. This is a story filled with humor, adventure, and gadgetry that only a genius like Fleming could create and is the basis for the famous film. This new edition, celebrating the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth, is illustrated by the award-winning and hugely polular children’s author John Burningham.
About the Author
John Burningham is one of the UK’s most distinguished illustrators whose appeal is recognized the world over. Born in 1936, he attended the alternative education establishment, Summerhill, in Suffolk, where lessons are not compulsory. At 17, he became a conscientious objector, and avoided military service by joining the Friends Ambulance Unit. After this he did forestry work, farming, slum clearance, school building in Southern Italy and demolition work in Israel. He went to the Central School of Art in London in 1956, graduating in 1959 with a National Diploma in Design, as well as the School’s own Diploma. Unsure of his future, he returned to Israel where he worked on models and puppets for a film company until his return to England in the autumn of 1960 when his life as an illustrator began. He created posters for London Transport, drew cartoons for magazines and made Christmas card designs until the publication of his first book in 1963. He has won the Kate Greenaway medal twice. He is married to Helen Oxenbury, another popular children’s illustrator.