Inspiring Young Readers
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Mabel Lucie Attwell posted on 03 Feb 2017
Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879 – 1964 ) has a drawing style that has made her one of the most instantly recognisable children’s book illustrators
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Ezra Jack Keats posted on 08 Jan 2017
Although Ezra Jack Keats is now acknowledged as one of the most important. children’s book illustrators of the twentieth century,...
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Harmsen Van Der Beek (a.k.a Beek) posted on 30 Dec 2016
I know that Enid Blyton’s Noddy stories divide opinion ....
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Lisbeth Zwerger posted on 13 Dec 2016
Lisbeth Zwerger trained in Vienna in the 1970s and is now widely regarded as one of the finest contemporary illustrators.
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Warwick Goble posted on 28 Nov 2016
A couple of years ago I bought a first edition copy of Folk Tales of Bengal illustrated by Warwick Goble as a birthday present ....
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Peggy Fortnum posted on 23 Nov 2016
The reputation of Peggy Fortnum as an artist and children’s book illustrator will inevitably rest upon her drawings of Paddington Bear.
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John Burningham posted on 06 Nov 2016
This prolific illustrator has been around in book illustration for a very long time and is still producing beautiful books,
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Randolph Caldecott posted on 04 Nov 2016
Randolph Caldecott Born in 1846, Randolph Caldecott is often thought of as the quintessential Victorian children’s book illustrator ...
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David Smee and the Earthsea book jackets posted on 16 Oct 2016
When you are a confronted with the task of producing book jacket illustrations for one of the great fantasy classic series of the 20th century..
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John Tenniel (1820 – 1914 ) posted on 22 Sep 2016
I don’t have any statistics to support this but I suspect that editions of Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass...