The Paradise Garden - Colin Thompson

The Tower to the Sun - Colin Thompson

Pollution is not a topic that is very high on the priority list of children s books subjects, but Colin Thompson always tackles matters with a bit of difference. Born Colin Willment, on the 18th of October 1942 in Ealing, London, his mother changed his surname to Thompson (his stepfather s surname) when he was 11 years old. He went to boarding school in Yorkshire, grammar school in London and studied art for 2 years in Ealing and Hammersmith. He worked as a silk screen printer, graphic designer and even made documentaries for the BBC for a while. He lived a year in Majorca, followed by 7 years on a little island in the Outer Hebrides where he started working in ...

The Last Alchemist - Colin Thompson

I wrote his title without a capital A and why he ends up the way he does in the story!!) * The Last Alchemist was written by Colin Thompson, my favourite children’s author and illustrator, whose illustrations blow my mind (almost literally!). If you wish to find out more about Colin Thompson, please do read my previous two reviews about his books: The Tower to the Sun and Falling Angels where I have detailed his “history” further. The book is available as a soft back from amazon.co.uk for £4.79 new and from £3.50 for a used copy. It is directed at children aged 5 and over, but I started reading it to my son when he was 3 and a half and he liked it ever since! A ...

Fallen Angels - Colin Thompson

books with a story that has a slightly "deeper" meaning. A little discreet "message" if you will. I like stories that are not hollow. Stories for the heart. Colin Thompson s books all have this underlying "Little message" to convey, and he does so with an approach very much of his own. His illustrations are fabulous. Extremely detailed (to a point of exasperation almost; when you have a 4 year old (well 5 now) trying to look at every single tiny feature and asking you what this red dot is or why that tree has ears, it will be the only time when you will have bitter regrets about having bought his books…). All his stories are for children ...