While my husband and I were traveling around Europe I made a point of spending time in book stores in every country that we visited. I wanted to see the kinds of images that were being created for picture books in different countries. I was really inspired by what I saw; European illustrators make beautiful, imaginative and experimental imagery. ...
Read MoreI recently got a library card and have been having the best time signing out tons of children's books. I can't believe I've gone without one for so long! There are so many books, especially picture books, that I've read about over the years and wanted to take a look at. I have a pretty decent sized collection myself, but I can't afford to buy ev ...
Read MorePinocchio, illustrated by Sara Fanelli, has been out for quite a while and it's a book I knew I eventually wanted to purchase so I was delighted to find it when I was still living in the UK. The collage illustrations are so experimental, especially for a children's book. It's really inspiring to flip through and makes me want to push myself to th ...
Read MoreI so enjoyed "La mémoire envolée" that I decided to pick up another book illustrated by French illustrator, Marie Desbons. This one is called "Céleste, une étoile dans la nuit" and it's about a matchstick with big dreams. It's based on the Hans Christan Anderson tale, The Little Match Girl. I thought the design of this book was especially clever ...
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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