King Kong

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But the artwork has a lot of wonderful foreshadowing, and looks class all round, and the telling is a really good child-friendly read. Anthony Browne, a Hans Christian Andersen Medalist, is the author-illustrator of many acclaimed books for children, including Silly Billy and Little Beauty.

His enthralling story involves battles with dinosaurs, daring rescues and incredible escapes - endless thrills lead up to one of the most famous climaxes of all time! The military dispatches four Curtiss Helldiver biplanes (with Lewis Guns, and Browning M1918s) to destroy Kong. This could have the unfortunate consequence of younger readers not overly enjoying the read or even finishing it. I decided to read this book because I have seen the movie and I wanted to know what the book was like. Finally arriving at the island's shore, they see a native village perched on a peninsula, cut off from the bulk of the island by an enormous wall.A landing party, including the filmmaker and his leading lady, goes ashore and encounters the natives, who are about to hand over a girl to Kong as a ritual sacrifice. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The language use is accurate for the time setting and almost poetic in nature, giving a kind of ‘film noir’ edge to the story.

Kong chases them, breaks through the large door of the wall and rampages through the village, killing many of the natives. King Kong is my favourite character, he is misunderstood by the western world and appears to them as a terrifying monster, perhaps because that is all they are willing to see him as. But his collaborator and subsequently co-director and producer of the film, not only did so but it is more than likely a relation of his, Richard Merrion Cooper who wrote the text of this book to accompany Anthony Browne's superb illustrations. I completely disagree with the adults that consider we should not expose children to stories that explore the unhappy or intimidating aspects of life; it would be a lie to present life as a series of only pleasant and harmonious moments. Anthony brown has an incredible talent and the pure emotion that he creates with his artwork is very special.It’s beautiful and heartbreaking, with stunning art and an ending that will never fail to make me cry.