Today is the last stop of the blog tour for Poppy’s Place: the Home-Made Cat Café, the first books in a new series written by Katrina Charman and illustrated by Lucy Truman and published by Stripes. The rest of the tour included a review from Readitdaddy, Katrina Charman’s Five Last Reads over on Serendipity Reviews, …
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Warning Cry: a review, and a guest post by illustrator Chellie Carroll
Kris Humphrey, with artwork by Chellie Carroll (Stripes) Nara is a Whisperer, a Guardian of the Wild. Her companion is a leopard called Flame and when Nara receives a message from the Palace that the kingdom of Meridina about the growing dangers brought by the shape-shifting Narlaw, they both take the journey north from the family …
100 Great Children’s Books
If you are interested in learning about children’s book illustration, or if you are simply an admirer of children’s book illustration, there is one person’s books that you should most definitely seek out, and that is Martin Salisbury’s. Martin Salisbury is Professor of Illustration at Anglia Rushkin University. There he leads the MA in …
GUEST POST: Laura Ellen Anderson on illustrating Witch Wars
Thursday will see the publication of Witch Wars, a brand new series for newly independent readers written by Sibéal Pounder and illustrated by Laura Ellen Anderson. The series follows the adventures of Tiga Whicabim, who has no idea about her powers as a witch until a fairy barges into her life and takes her to …
Picture This: How Pictures Work
There has been a lot of talk about the lack of credit given to illustrators lately, and rather than repeat what illustrator Sarah McIntyre has already argued so eloquently, please see her blog posts on the subject (Pictures Mean Business: some challenges, Digging Deep: the real reason keep getting overlooked, Pictures Mean Business: after careful …