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The Interesting Works of Anthony Browne Anthony Edward Tudor Browne is an author and illustrator who was born in Sheffield, England on September 11, 1946. As a young boy Browne always loved to draw and would draw with his father Jack for hours at a time. He was always smaller than everyone else growing up, so to keep from getting bullied he played many different sports, which he was actually quite the athlete. He thought of himself as an unusual, shy, sensitive, but he was also very strong and confident. Browne would compare himself to gorillas and showed a great liking to these creatures. As he got older he actually used gorillas quite frequently or some sort of primate in his writings. Growing up his father Jack Browne had many different jobs because he was indecisive about what he wanted to do career wise. His mother Doris May was a homemaker, and he had a little brother named Michael. They had a wonderful childhood with two loving parents. One of his father’s many jobs and probably most consistent was the pub that he ran, and they actually lived right above. Browne as a young child would go into the pub and tell of stories of an alter ego he had made up called Big Dumb Tackle, who could …show more content…

Children do not always understand times how busy parents can be, and reading this book can help them to understand that parents will always fine time for their children no matter how busy they are. The wonderful illustrations in the story will have the children drawn in, and will help them to actually see how relatable to them it is. Browne is such a wonderful author and illustrator, even though he was not known to me until I did this presentation. I feel as if I need to open my own children’s eyes to his workings, and help them to love reading in general now. I am glad I chose this author and got to know his work, and hope to see more of his work throughout the

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