This Book Has Alpacas, Bears, an Emma, a Ness, an Alice and a Rikin! When I got the email from my agent about “This Book Has Alpacas and Bears” I was a little scared. Scared because this was the first ever picture book I would be illustrating in a LONG time AND that is was…
Our new series, Picture Book Art: Meet The Illustrator, is getting such a lovely reaction from you all. We are delighted to welcome Richard Jones to the series. Richard is an ex-librarian and illustrator of many books including the beautiful The Snow Lion. With Perdu bounding onto the shelves, we are very privileged to have…
My Book Corner’s first post in this new series – Picture Book Art: Meet the Makers with illustrator Sharon Davey, was super popular – and now we are itching to show you the next one in our series. Super excited to welcome Sandhya Prabhat, the illustrator behind I Am Brown to share a brilliant insight…
Creating I Don’t Like Books. Never. Ever. The End. with Sharon Davey has been the hugest privilege. It really has. I’m so chuffed that Sharon has popped over to MyBookCorner today to give a really intriguing insight into picture book creation, from an illustrator’s perspective – the very first post in our brand new series…
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Ooh, this sounds fantastic!
Great review, thanks for posting the pictures. Really makes a difference with picture book reviews. Will order for the store…
I often hope to find interviews with Margaret Wild who fascinates me and whose work I adore. Thoroughly enjoyed this…