Mr Badger and Mrs Fox 3: What a Team!
Age 5+
Graphic Novels Comic Strip Fiction / Graphic Novels
This series gives the youngest children and beginning readers graphic novels of their own that handle real family situations with charm, humor, and just the right point of view for the age group .
Mr. Badger and Mrs. Fox supervise while the kids have a boat race in the stream. Everyone has a different idea for how to build the fastest boat. Ginger wants to build a sailboat, so they don't have to row so much. Bristle and Grub think a kayak will be more fun. Everyone wants to be in charge, except badger baby sister Berry, who teams up happily with their otter and ferret friends. And the race is on! It turns out there's good in everybody's ideas--and it takes teamwork to build the best boat of all.
Creators
Brigitte Luciani was born in Hanover, Germany. After getting her masters degree in literature, she worked in a variety of jobs including journalism, editing, and photo research. In 1994 she moved to France, where she began writing books for kids and adults. Around the same time, she first discovered graphic novels and marveled at the possibilities of a format that has been neglected in Germany. After a long time searching for the perfect collaborators for a foray into comics, she teamed up with the artist Colonel Moutarde on l'Espace d'un soir, Comedie d'amour, and Histoires cachees (Delcourt) and with Eve Tharlet for the Monsieur Blaireau et Madame Renarde series (Dargaud).
Eve Tharlet was born in Alsace but grew up in Germany. She took courses in printmaking and screen-printing in Berlin then continued her studies in illustration in Strasbourg. She has worked in all types of illustration for children, including miniature books and calendars, games and magazines, schoolbooks and classic fairy tales. In twenty years, she has illustrated more than 150
books for children. She is married and has two sons and now lives in the hilly countryside of Brittany.
