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tui
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 Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:56 pm Post subject: Favourite Picture Book Illustrators. |
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I love the art work in many picture books.
Some of my favourites are
Robert Ingpen The Dreamkeeper, the Rare Bear
I love the detail in the pictures and the mix of pencil sketches and pen and ink.
Jan Brett The Hat, Gingerbread Baby, Goldilocks
I love the page set up with extra pictures around the outside and the borders.
Emily Gravett. Monkey and Me, Wolves, Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears.
she is a new favourite. I like the collage style of Little Mouse and also Meerket Mail.
What are your favourites? |
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seren82
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I love Shirley Hughes - I think her pictures capture children's expressions and movements perfectly. I also love Quentin Blake and Christian Birmingham.
When I draw pictures for my classroom, I usually try to copy Steven Cartwright's style - he was a guy who illustrated lots of Usborne books! |
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cofnchoc
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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Eric Carle and Brian Wildsmith immediately spring to mind.
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smallholder
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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I like Brian Wildsmith too cofnchoc.
I have for a number of years collected children's alphabet books by different illustrators - both modern and old. I have quite a collection now.
A couple of my favourites from the modern ones are
The Blue Green Ark: An Alphabet Book for Planet Earth by Brian Patten - the Illustrations are by a whole host of wonderful artists
Amazon Alphabet by Martin & Tanis Jordan ( Martin is the illustrator) |
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tui
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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i love Shirley Hughes as well. Her children's expressions are wonderful.
I collect children's books from secondhand bookshops. I mainly look at the illustrations. I use them in my classroom as well of course!
The alphabet books you mention sound good smallholder. |
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Wizz
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Favourite children's illustrators -Mini Grey and Emily Gravett - loads to talk about in all their illustrations. |
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whoa there pickle
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cornflake girl
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| Axel Shaffler (sp?) for Julia Donaldson books. |
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wicked witch
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| Love Quentin Blake. There's a programme about him on Teachers TV over the holiday. |
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tui
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| i'ver been thinking about the illustrators i enjoyed years ago. My favourites were Maurice Sendak, who illustrated many authors books as well as his own Where the wild things are etc; Mercer Mayer draws very cute critters, and Garth Williams who illustrated Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little and Cricket in Times Square. His line drawings have a lot of character and certainly add to the stories. |
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smallholder
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| Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:15 am Post subject: |
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| If we are looking at illustrators I also like Earnest Sheppard, Edward Lear, Mervyn Peake, Dulac. |
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ccbaa1
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| Hello to all in the library not been in before. As a child I liked Margaret Tempest who did Little Grey Rabbit books think it was a much to do with the shiny paper in the books and they were old my mum's and had that lovely old book smell! |
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magpie nic
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| I really like Emily Gravett- am going to meet her on Saturday at Seven Stories in Newcastle where she is doing some new illustrations for a book with 4 -7 year olds. Very excited! |
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Venus
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| Anything by Jane Ray, i absolutely love it and have done art work in her style with children. |
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smallholder
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| I am taking a fresh look at Beatrix Potter at the moment. i am reading an illustrated biography of her. In the past I always dismissed her illustrations as 'twee' but I am looking at them with new eyes now and appreciating them much more. |
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magpie nic
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I really like beatrix potter.
I have missed Emily Gravett today  My niece who was coming has a sickie bug so my littlest did not want to go without her- nice sentiment but I wanted to go! Kids eh?! |
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sal 26
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| Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Anthony Browne springs to mind - have done some good visual literacy with some of his books. |
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Louiw
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| Oh,I love Anthony Broiwne!We did Voices in the Park when HMI inspected OFSTED!!! |
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smallholder
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| Just added a new beautiful alphabet book to my collection. Jan Pienkowski - Dinosaur ABC. A pop up book of dinosaurs with all sorts of tabs to pull to make the dinosaurs move in different ways, lay eggs, hatch etc. All the textures on the different dinosaur bodies are made of alphabet letters too, so the brachiosaurus has Bs all over him etc. |
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tui
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| Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 7:54 am Post subject: |
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Sounds lovely smallholder. i like Jan Piennkowski. I haven't seen that one though.
I recently bought for 10cents A Shaker Abecedary to add to my collection of alphabet books. |
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