“ Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. ” Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people. Jonathan Swift’s satire is three centuries old this year and we’re celebrating with Philip Ardagh and illustrators who’ll be using the big screen to turn the world topsy-turvy! Children’s author Philip Ardagh, a meagre 6ft 7in, wore size 13 shoes when he was just 11 years old, so who better to steer us through the ups and downs and ins and outs of Gulliver’s travels?
Philip Ardagh has written more than 100 books including adult fiction and children’s non-fiction, and has been published in forty languages around the world.