I don't think I've ever mentioned here my love for childrens illustration. For a couple of years I was obsessed with the idea of becoming an illustrator. I spent my third year in college writing my dissertation on it, and made it my main project too. I built up a fairly large kids book collection(well large for someone in their 20's with no kids) and still to this day love spending a couple of hours in O'Mahonys browsing through the kiddies section. My friend John Galvin gave me this beautiful book, Duck Death and the Tulip as a belated birthday present the other day. I love the style of drawing and the darkness of the subject matter. Now that I think of it I might do a few posts about my favourite books in my collection.
that looks like a very interesting book!
ReplyDeleteerlbruch's stuff is so lovely!
ReplyDeletejust looking at this I think you would like "The Meloncholy Death of Oyster Boy" by Tim Burton. The drawings are so sweet, in a creepy kind of way. And the short stories, and I mean short, are fun and sad and little demented all at the same time. Not really chidren's lit, but worth a looksie!
ReplyDeleteoh it's beautiful I love it. I have a book I got just before my wedding day called 'The Red Tree', it's a children's book that gives me so much hope. Check it out, you can open it on Amazon:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Tree-Shaun-Tan/dp/0734410875/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1279144982&sr=1-1
grrr... the reason I came to pos, and sure of course I got side-tracked!! thanks for the info and if you had more details of the Etsy meet up?? I would love to meet up... :)
ReplyDeleteHazel- Yeah I have the lovely canvas hardback version of that book, I love it!! the drawing are beautiful. I just sent you a message through facebook about the meet up on Sat.
ReplyDeleteCheers Carrie I'm off to check it out now :)
....oooooh Carrie that's really pretty, I might just have to pick it up on my next book splurge
ReplyDeleteOh you should, it is very uplifting - I have chronic depression and I read it often just to remind me of the beauty of life and art - it's a must have!!
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