This beautiful coffee table book celebrates 40 years of the Aardman studio by taking the reader on a tour through its archives. The studio responsible for creating Academy Award winning & nominated movies such as Wallace & Gromit The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Chicken Run, & The Pirates In an Adventure with Scientists shares its creations evolution with initial outlines where the characters were developed sketch by sketch, beautiful concept art, & the settings that created the background on which these stories played out. With forewords from founders Peter Lord & David Sproxton, extracts from the sketchbooks of creators & directors including Lord, Nick Park & Richard Starzak, this book is the essential guide to the animation studio that brought much-loved characters & unforgettable stories to life. Each copy pre-ordered from the official Aardstore comes with a Mini Morph pot of clay (Normally 6.00) 128 Pages Hardcover, Published by Simon & Schuster