Favourite Picture Book Illustrators.

tui · Favourite Picture Book Illustrators.

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?

seren82

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!

cofnchoc

Eric Carle and Brian Wildsmith immediately spring to mind.

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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)

tui

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.

Wizz

Favourite children's illustrators -Mini Grey and Emily Gravett - loads to talk about in all their illustrations.

whoa there pickle

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick is amazing.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Invention...oks&qid=1238527241&sr=8-1

cornflake girl

Axel Shaffler (sp?) for Julia Donaldson books.

wicked witch

Love Quentin Blake. There's a programme about him on Teachers TV over the holiday.

tui

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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If we are looking at illustrators I also like Earnest Sheppard, Edward Lear, Mervyn Peake, Dulac.

ccbaa1

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!

magpie nic

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!

Venus

Anything by Jane Ray, i absolutely love it and have done art work in her style with children.

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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.

magpie nic

I really like beatrix potter.

I have missed Emily Gravett today Sad

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?!

sal 26

Anthony Browne springs to mind - have done some good visual literacy with some of his books.

Louiw

Oh,I love Anthony Broiwne!We did Voices in the Park when HMI inspected OFSTED!!!

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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.

tui

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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That sounds interesting - what is it like?

tui

The Shakers were a religion that didn't last long as they didn't believe in sex(men and women lived separately) and they didn't actively recruit to their religion-you had to be called directly by God to it.
The book now I look at it is called A Peacable Kingdom. A Shaker Abecedarious.
it was origionally published 1882. The Illustrations are of that era though they are not the original. each page has typical scenes in a Shaker child's life as well as the animals in the rhyme. Each page has a little saying showing a lesson. eg
A man of kindness to his beasts is kind.
Brutal actions show a brutal mind.

This is the text, each page has the appropriate letter very large and each animal illustrated by its name.
Alligator, beetle, porcupine, whale
Bobolink,panther,dragonfly, snail,
Crocodile,monkey,buffalo,hare
Dromedary,leopard, mud turtle,bear
Elephant, badger, pelican,ox
Flying fish, reindeer,anaconda,fox

it is delightful and my daughter adored it as a child but we only had a library copy so I was pleased to spot it at the book fair.

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That does sound lovely, I would have snapped it up too. An original one would be a real find wouldn't it? My oldest alphabet ones are 1930s, 1940s and 1950s which are charming- I love that retro style. I am not a religious person but I have a 1930s ABC of prayers and ABC of scenes from the bible from that period. My oldest one is 1910 but is more a book about the alphabet and the type faces in use at that time. (I have other antiquarian books too but thats moving away from the theme of this thread!)

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Bought a lovely illustrated edition for The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verse - Edward Lear in a second hand book shop - the illustrator is L Leslie Brooke. There are lovely black and white line drawings and some colour plates.

I also got a new ABC book for my collection - a John Burningham one.

NeKo

Not sure of the authour/ illustrator but I think it was set in a library and had loads of books on shelves with tons of small detail. I'll look it up. It was recomended by a literacy co-ordinator.

NeKo

It was: How to Live Forever by Colin Thompson
Product Description
Peter and his family live among the Quinces in the cookery section of a mystical library. At night, when the library comes to life, Peter ventures out of his home to find a missing volume - "How To Live Forever".
I also love the art work in Jeannie Baker books.

smileylady

Paul Stickland- such vivid pictures with exquisite detail. I see something else ever time I look at the pages of Christmas Bear.

Benedict Blathyn also fab!

tui

i love Colin Thompson. There are several in the style of How to live forever. Snother is the Violin Player. lots of little details to notice.

i recently read Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems to my 5 yr old class which they enjoyed but the illustrations immediately fascinated them and they kept going back and looking at them. the backgrounds are black and white photos of New York. The characters are drawn over the top as cartoons in colour.

Next week we are going to make pictures like that. This week we did collage style where they stuck on their own cut out pictures on magazine backgrounds but it is not quite the same. so next week i will give them black and white backgrounds. some of them can take photos round the school and we will use those.
i love it when a project pops up unexpectedly driven by the kids.

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I've used Knuffle Bunny with my teenagers!

tui

it's a cute story isn't it. Have you seen Don't let the pigeon drive the bus. and Don't let the pigeon stay up late. my class love them as well but there are parts that would appeal to older children as well.