Monthly Archives: April 2010
We've been living in Paris for just over a week and are loving it. The people, the colours, the cute shops, the cafes, the art, the cheese, the wine, the amazing fresh bread... This city is vibrant and beautiful. The flat we're renting is in Montmartre, an area quite rich in art history - Picasso's studio was just a couple of buildings away and ...
Read MoreThis one is actually not a picture book, but a Scottish recipe book, Ma Broon's But An Ben Cook Book (it's one in a series of Ma Broon books) and I fell madly in love with it the first time I saw it. To be honest, I'm much more interested in the design of the book, which looks like an old scrap book, than I am in the actual recipes, although I do ...
Read MoreThis is the other book that I picked up by Belgian illustrator, Anne Herbauts. It's called Les moindres petites choses and it's absolutely lovely. The book is designed so that the pages on the right side fold open to change the 2 page spread into a 3 page spread.Here's a 2 page spread:and here's the same one folded open: ...
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