8/7/2023 0 Comments Unplugged steve antony(Irony alert: This book is also available on Kindle. The Queen’s Hat was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal in the UK. Definitely worth a pick-up for those with kids who seem hard-wired into their video games. Steve Antony is the popular author and illustrator of Please, Mr. He illustrated Tim Minchins When I Grow Up from his hit musical Matilda and illustrated a cover of The Famous Five, Enid Blytons. Antony conveys the vibrancy of an unplugged life by representing all of Blip's time with her computer in dismal gray tone and 16-bit graphics (Blip apparently has a computer from 1991 and a less-than-VGA monitor), while the outdoors is full of greens and blues, and the characters with whom Blip interacts (a rabbit and a fawn - Blip seems to have stumbled onto the set of BAMBI) are joyous and playful and eager to make friends. Like most children's picture books, UNPLUGGED is a quick and easy read. Blip still loves being plugged into her computer at the end of the story, but her world is expanded and richer now because she has allowed for the possibility of other options - great options, in her opinion. 2017 by Steve Antony (Author) 196 ratings Kindle Edition 3. If you're thinking that Steve Antony is making a luddite case against technology, the story doesn't bear that out. Details Dispatches from CBS Distribution Ltd Sold by CBS Distribution Ltd Return Policy: Returnable within 30 days of receipt Buy used 1.61 See all 3 images Follow the author Steve Antony Unplugged: Steve Antony Hardcover 7 Sept. Blip is always plugged into her computer-until one day a blackout forces her outdoors, and she discovers that the real world is a lot more interesting then. Read 233 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. So much so that, when she ultimately returns home to reconnect to her old life, she finds that she prefers the way things are when she's "unplugged." Unplugged by Steve Antony Unplugged book. But she's doing them "for real" and she's having more fun doing so. Well, basically - as per the text of the book - she's doing pretty much all the same things she did on her computer. But when a blackout causes her to trip and unplug (and fall-and-roll a distance longer than any meatball did from on top of spaghetti), she finds herself out of doors, in the sunlight, and learning new things. Blip is a happy little robot/console that lives daily plugged into her computer.
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