Product Description

Wallace and Gromit are back! In their latest adventure, "A Matter of Loaf and Death", our two heroes start a new bakery business and Wallace finds a new love interest - Piella Bakewell, bread enthusiast. This official, all-singing, all-dancing book is timed to coincide with the film's release in late 2008. "Grand Adventures and Glorious Inventions" is set out as Wallace's secret invention scrapbook, packed with snippets of information and personal memorabilia about his cracking contraptions and all his madcap capers with Gromit. It features all the main characters from the three previous films ("The Wrong Trousers", "A Close Shave and Curse of Were-Rabbit") and offers a taster of the new film. It uses actual stills from the films and includes an interactive element woven throughout the book in the form of fold-out blueprints, pull-tabs and practical 'how to create' suggestions. Knitting patterns, "Cheese Week" magazine, world-class marrows...prepare to enter the chaotic world of an amateur inventor and his dog! This book is a delight for young and old and a must for every discerning Wallace and Gromit fan. 37.6 million BBC viewers watched Wallace and Gromit over the Christmas period!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16290 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

About the Author
Penny Worms is a well-known and respected children's author.

Customer Reviews

What a way to start! (my collection anwyay ..)
This is my first Wallace and Gromit purchase in paper form (at the same time also bought the tin edition of the first dvd and the 2 disc set of Curse of..). And .. what a way to start! Cannot say why it's taken me so long to get here, but I love the book. Excellent companion i.m.o. for the pair up to now and their dvd releases.
Would have like a few more "things to do" in the book (flaps to lift, pull-out pieces etc. as with the Dragonology/Wizardology type books), but this is still good.
And I am 40 - so younger fans are probably going to enjoy this even more!
Brilliant!

An almost complete experience
We saw this book first at the World of Cracking Ideas exhibit they did in London, and then my wife and I couldn't stop thinking about it! We got it a short time after we got back home, and we and our two-year-old love it. It covers every adventure we've seen them have, a number of the Cracking Contraptions, and even gives a little background into the characters (with 'real' notes from Gromit, for a change). Like another reviewer pointed out, the only real weak point to the book is that there could be more 'to do' activities to the book. The design and intent is clearly like the popular Ology books, which similarly don't have as much as one might like to play with, but this book could've done a bit more as it's pointed toward a slightly broader age range.
Overall, though, an excellent overview and keepsake for fans of the inventor and his dog.

Great Fun
My title says it all, it's fun to read, it's fun to read together, it's fun to give it to your friends. It's a great bargain, the book looks very nice, you can see that there is ome great effort in making this book.

a must have for any Wallace and Gromit fan.