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Leunig. Australia's art beacon. Now, under his tutelage, also available in animated form. Who, once they have seen his 'Book of Common Prayer' will forget the subtle & disquieting man supplicating before a duck accompanied by the adage,'The kneeling man knows, as everybody does, that a proud & upright man does not and cannot talk with a duck. So the upright man is rejected. The man kneels. He humbles himself. He becomes more like the duck. He does these things because it improves his chances of communicating with it.' Leunig's humble folk with tippler's snouts, inhabit crepuscular rooms & scapes presided over by a sickle moon. It's a world that pivots on pathos & it's post-nouveau emblems are tear-shaped, coiled & cashewed in foetal embraces of unpruned maternity. Leunig's ouvre is a paen to small, transitory joys rather than an angry collection of petitions to the Big Fella. Leunig is benignly in awe of cosmic peversities without being obsequious: humour with angel's wings. Creeping into the crevices of despair, he draws a sad, slow breath, sighs & carries on. It's universal stuff while indubitably Australian. Friends in America and the UK have fallen for this guy as much as any Oz fan, who harbours a choice Leunig selection under the fridge magnet.

Michael Leunig is on of the most brilliant writers ever.
Living in the australian bush, drawing for over thirty years have given Michael a great humour and drawing style.
He doesn't show off, he keeps a simple cute style(all though he CAN draw more complex) This books contains great drawings, great poems and funny stories and characters.
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