miffy495 Posted June 15, 2009 No, no no. I think it was an American illustrator. Not sure, though. Richard Scarry. He wrote a ton of stuff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vimes Posted June 15, 2009 Ohohoh, I also forgot : The Three Robbers and, of course, the jewel of kid's book, THe Jolly postman which had real letters, postcards and all kinds of shit inside. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OssK Posted June 15, 2009 Ah les trois brigands... Has anybody seen the movie ? kqD4mmP4WHs Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wrestlevania Posted June 15, 2009 And, of course, the jewel of kid's book, THe Jolly postman which had real letters, postcards and all kinds of shit inside. Ha, that's another one I read to my kids, too! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
syntheticgerbil Posted June 15, 2009 Ah les trois brigands...Has anybody seen the movie ? kqD4mmP4WHs I'm so jealous of your animation industry. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Roderick Posted June 16, 2009 Ahhh, The Three Bandits. That one I read. But my favouritest books when I was 10-13 have to be a selection of the choose your own adventure books, translated in Dutch. Most notably City of Thieves (Het Roversnest) and Citadel of Chaos (De Burcht Chaos). I adored those books, kept borrowing them from the library, until they went up for sale and I bought them. I love their old smell (those books were old, even then) and the beautiful illustration of abandoned places and creepy monsters. Couple years back all those old Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone books got rereleased and I bought a lot of them from the first run, including the golden oldies (not so much the ones further in the series). I think the best one, technically speaking, has to be Creature of Havoc. That one does some amazing things with the format, really pushing its boundaries with interesting puzzles and mysteries. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
James Posted June 16, 2009 Richard Scarry. He wrote a ton of stuff. That's it! I had a couple of books with really big pages. Good stuff. Looking him up, I'm now reminded that the worm drove a car that was a giant apple. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gdf Posted June 16, 2009 which had real letters, postcards and all kinds of shit inside. That was so good! I remember playing with the magnifying glass and staring at the map for hours. It had a Yellow Brick Road with sparkles glued on, fuck yeah! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OssK Posted June 16, 2009 a little feedback/review on the three robbers movie http://www.idlethumbs.net/forums/showthread.php?p=112317#post112317 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shakesbeard Posted June 16, 2009 Anyone else for Burglar Bill? How about the Funny Bones? Oh HELL yes I still have my copy of Funny Bones from when I was a kid (I'm 23) and I plan on reading it to my kids some day, along with Le Petit Prince for french practice. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OssK Posted June 16, 2009 Le petit Prince was sweet, never understood what the workship was about but still a very nice book. Also, St Exupery invented child bullshitting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zomboid Posted June 16, 2009 Ah les trois brigands...Has anybody seen the movie ? kqD4mmP4WHs Holy fucking shit! That looks AWESOME!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SignorSuperdouche Posted June 16, 2009 Richard Scarry. He wrote a ton of stuff. Oh fuck! I had a book by that guy, it was awesome! I have this really vivid memory of a gorilla (or something similar) wearing 20 or so watches on his arms. Man, I haven't thought about that book in about 2 decades. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zomboid Posted June 16, 2009 Les Trois Brigands is actually a German movie (Die drei Räuber), which is weird to me, but whatever - I really wanna see it. More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448150/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OssK Posted June 16, 2009 Les Trois Brigands is actually a German movie (Die drei Räuber), which is weird to me, but whatever - I really wanna see it.More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448150/ also a little feedback/review on the three robbers movie I rented the DVD and it's not so awesome even though it's pretty super... Yeah I'm not making sense but, to my defense, neither did the movie ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
syntheticgerbil Posted June 16, 2009 Does the DVD have english subtitles by any chance? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OssK Posted June 16, 2009 Here's a little reportage from my parent's appartment, in my old bedroom, here are the treasure I found. Half of the library is our kid's book (the most recent are my little sisters, the older ones are my mother's (there was some Jo Zette et Jocko happening in there)) This is a library This is a close-up on the small children's book case, including a broken mechanical singing bird cage like the one you saw in "Le roi et l'oiseau" and belonged to my grandmother. That's not the Three cosmonauts which I did not managed to find but another of Umberto Eco's kid's book, which is (I read it again) fucking awesome. If you're interested in it and can't manage to find it because it's not edited anymore or not translated, it might be scanned and translated to the internet. This is an illustration of the above book, the text to the right (which is unreadable) says «The world os full of atoms Everything is made of atoms ; atomes are very small and they get together to form molecules who, themselves compose everything that we know. Mommies are made of atoms Bread is made of atoms ...(I left it at their place and can't seem to decipher my photo) William Steig died in 2003, it's therefore not useful anymore to buy his books full price but the stories are still beautiful and the illustration very light and clean, the nail story which I also have is awesome, I advise everyone to read it ! By the way, you do know William Steig, if not for his books, you might learn here that he is the author of a certain book named Shrek who got adapted to the movies. You should know that one... This one is never going back up there, I love that guy. One of the many unfoldable books For some of you, these might ring a bell Is that le magicien des couleurs ? Yes it is, how beautiful is it ? It's pretty incredible. I'm not sorry I ordered it, my mom would never give it to me so I'll have a copy of it. Jean de la lune is also very good, from a certain Tomi Ungerer you might have heard about. Tu ne dors pas petit ours is pretty sweet, "I brought you the moon said great bear, I brought you the moon and thousands of stars" James Stevenson is not dead on the other end but will probably not last very long, you should definitely buy his books because they are just hilarious ! The wolf of Christmas (from Michel Gay... poor guy) is neat... As you can see, I had a fucking to of them but I just made a few photographs and a post that no one will probably read because it's fucking too long but thanks anyways to you Lady Y et merci aussi Vimes for creating both threads that probably populated my dreams for the year to come. also, some of these books would make sweet video games ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OssK Posted June 16, 2009 Does the DVD have english subtitles by any chance? It did not, I was pretty smashed by the fact that the menu from this DVD I rented had only button : play movie. On the other hand, it doesn't have much speaking and the dialogues are not really a seller. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
James Posted June 17, 2009 I have this really vivid memory of a gorilla (or something similar) wearing 20 or so watches on his arms. That's right! I'd completely forgotten about that guy. Why did he have so many watches? Was he a bit of a dodgy dealer, or was he just really paranoid about them winding down? Or is it modern forearm armour? I'm probably asking questions I shouldn't bother with. Oh, and I'm almost certain he was a gorilla. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OssK Posted June 17, 2009 I'm so jealous of your animation industry. Sometimes, like for the three robbers you shouldn't really be, sometimes you should Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gdf Posted June 17, 2009 Sometimes, like for the three robbers you shouldn't really be, sometimes you should That's a pretty awesome Cok indeed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vimes Posted June 17, 2009 Also the frenco-spanish Mr Collieu looks quite awesome. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Salka Posted June 17, 2009 That's a pretty awesome Cok indeed. "awesome cok" hehe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Roderick Posted June 17, 2009 Jean de la Lune! I had that one in Dutch as well, Het Mannetje van de Maan! Gotta find that again. Great to see those books again! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
