Beautiful synergy of author & text #NicolaDavies @charlienutbrown.bsky.social #MarianneMcShane Wonderful animal facts , lovely verse & magical , adventurous stories. #KidsBooksFriday #UKKidLit
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#KidsBooksFriday #Illustrators #PeterHoracek #NicolaDavies #EwaBeniakHaremska #MarianneMcShane #AlanMarks
Illustrations full of character, life, the beauty of the natural world, anthropomorphic animals, the mystery of libraries, ethereal magic & dreamy landscapes.
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Misty blue. Child mirroring body language of goats 🐐
Black & white sea scape & sky. Little white boat journeying across waves 🌊 An incredible journey through a phantasmagorical marine world. Escher vibes.
Red & gold. Iconic Alice in Wonderland characters. Diamond, hearts. Alice based on photographs of real life Alice Liddell. Wonderful reinvention.
Yellow background. Charming Puffin pictured. Black, orange, white and blue hues. Check out First Book of Animals too for gorgeous illustrations.
From friendships & journeys to imaginary, phantasmagorical worlds. Wonderful illustrations capturing mirroring, movement, characterisation, colour & emotion. Visual magic. #KidsBooksFriday #LaneSmith #PeterVandenEnde #ChrisRiddell #PetrHoracek
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And last but most certainly not least,
Eoin McLaughlin
Richard Scarry
5/5 #KidsBooksFriday #KidLit #GoodNight
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Unbelievably hard to whittle down and this is still going to have to be a be a🧵 Have left out anyone already mentioned in the comments⤵️ Without further ado...
Aaron Becker
Carson Ellis (so beloved we have her framed)
Daniel Egnéus
Felicita Sala
1/5 #KidsBooksFriday #KidLit
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4 picture books laid on the floor in a square: Chitra Soundar & Sandhya Prabhat's It's Time To Hush and Say Goodnight (a flowing, dreamlike cover featuring an Indian dad and his son cuddling.) The Worst Princess by Anna Kemp and Sara Ogilvie (with a princess riding on a mid-air dragon, who is smiling at her.) Look Up by Dapo Adeola and Nathan Bryon, showing a small Black girl wearing a bright orange space suit looking up and smiling widely at the night sky. And Beegu by the sublime Alexis Deacon, showing a painterly cityscape with a small orange alien creature at the front, with long ears that trail to the floor. The atmosphere of the piece is a little mournful.
I have tried to pick a few that haven't already been shouted out! Here are 4 I really love:
#KidsBooksFriday #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
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Front cover of Flotsam by David Wiesner
Front cover of Nen and the lonely fisherman by Ian Eagleton and James Mayhew
Front cover of Gaspard the Fox by Zeb Soanes and James Mayhew
Adding Flotsam by #DavidWiesner, and also #JamesMayhew needs a mention. He's done so much but I have a special love for Nen and the lonely fisherman by @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social and Gaspard the Fox by @zebsoanes.com #KidsBooksFriday
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And, finally, (though I could keep going and going and going), I must acknowledge my own daughter's work. She did the cover of my book and also illustrated Billy #KidsBooksFriday
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#KidsBooksFriday is indeed every week! Just let me know if you would like to be tagged or just watch out for the hashtag.
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Love your choices… I want to add
@dansantat.bsky.social @vivschwarz.bsky.social #JonKlassen and #EmilyGravett all clever and true master of visual storytelling #KidsBooksFriday
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Cover of Caldicot Medal winning kid's book " Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears" told by author Verna Aardema and illustrations by artist team Diane & Leo Dillon. Shows a colorful stylized painting of a blue Mosquitoe in the ear of an annoyed-looking African man wearing a brightly patterned. magenta hat
cover of the kids book Earth Mother, told by author Ellen Jackson and illustrated by artists Leo & Diane Dillon. The colorful painting shows a background of the head of an African woman with the sunset. She's smiling gently and her eye is looking towards the foreground figures of an insect, frog, tree, and man with a drum, who are all reaching up & out towards her. Are they acting in celebration? prayer? suplication? all the above?
Brilliant idea! Definitely #KidsBooksFriday needs to become a regular feature! So many to talk about.
#Illustrators are artists with the special challenge of using their art to help bring to life another person's art (the author's book). Matching visions is an incredible talent!
Diane & Leo Dillon
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Julie Flett from A Day With Yayah.
A collage of Dillon illustrations.
I love me by Sally Morgan and Ambelin Kwaymullina.
No Matter What front piece by Debi Gliori.
And a random collection!
Julie Flett.
Leo and Diane Dillon.
Sally Morgan.
Debi Gliori.
#KidsBooksFriday
#Kidlit
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A double page spread fold out of a fort.
Dazzlehands spread of Pig in various costumes.
Granny McFlitter with a knitted hat of many layers.
Helen and the go-go ninjas.
Now, some NZers!
Gavin Bishop - Patu.
Josh Morgan - Dazzlehands.
Lael Chisolm - Granny McFlitter's Eggcelent Easter.
Ant Sang.
#KidsBooksFriday
#kidlit
#pukapuka
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