{A day late} On Tuesday we Read...

...Catch that Crocodile! by Anushka Ravishankar and Pulak Biswas. It is published by Tara Publishing, who are an independent publisher of children's books for adults and children based in South India. They are really great at finding more unusual and striking texts and illustrations. This is a lovely rhythmic tale with beautiful folk art illustrations.

The other book published by them that I have is 'The Night Life of Trees' which is stunning - produced by hand - every page hand screen printed on hand made paper. It's like owning a mini series of prints. The book is created by a commune of printers from local villages trained in this unique skill.

Beautiful stuff!

Bits & Pieces

Just a brief bits & pieces showing you the out-takes from my attempt to make a xmas card with Stanley as the feature...they say never work with children and animals hey?!!

Get this ridiculous elf outfit off me!

On Tuesday we Read...

...The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew it was None of his Business by Werner Holzwarth and illustrated by Wolf Erlbruch.

It is a book basically about poo. Hence the bit about 'his business'!
I think it is brilliant - not crude - in fact rather informative about differnt types and shapes of animal poo. The mole character is fantastic...he goes around trying to work out who has pooed on his head! Haha so funny - I cannot wait until Stanley really understands this one!

Wolf Erlbruch's illustrations are genius. Really beautiful characters and lovely colour use. He is a winner of the Hans Christian Anderson award and rightly so I think.
Another book by him is called Duck, Death and the Tulip. I almost cried when I read it in a bookstore - it is so moving, and the illustrations are beautiful - so simple and powerful.

Bits & Pieces

Pic 1. Bright Autumn skies
Pic 2. Poppy seed heads
Pic 3. My favourite pencils to work with
Pic 4 & 5. A good find in my parents loft for Stanley
Pic 6. the best tissue box ever
Pic 7. Lazy kitty

Happy weekends xxx

**As always thanks to Bleubird for the idea and encouraging us to share....

Work has begun...

At last!

i've been given the green light to GO! GO! GO! with the colour for the spreads for my newest book. the deadline is pretty tight which means working a fair bit over Christmas which i really didn't want to do as it is Stanley's first Christmas.... Still, i need the work, the money, and plus i want to get back into being 'proper' creative so these things have to be done!

i'm really excited about the book though...i'll try and share sneaky peaks with you as i go along, but obviously not the whole thing until it's finished....

S xoxo

On Tuesday we read...

...'For Just One Day' by Laura Leck and illustrated Marc Boutavant.

Marc Boutavant is definitely up there in my top children's book illustrators. His work is amazing - so detailed and thoughtful. It is all done on the computer...but you really wouldn't know that which is why it's such charming work to look at. I have a few more books illustrated by him including Mouk. We have the french version as I bought it before it came out in english......I'm tempted to buy that version too! It has the most AMAZING set of stickers at the back to put on the pages....but being the control freak I am I can't bear to use them which is why I guess I need a second book as there is no way Stanley is not going to want to used them soon!!

Bits & Pieces

These bits & pieces are from my trip to Antibes at the weekend. I went with two other girlfriends to visit a friend living and working out there. It was a great weekend - lovely to be selfish and spend time with amazing friends. Felt very odd leaving Stanley for three whole days but he seemed to take it in his stride - the reports all weekend from his daddy was that he was very happy so that was good!

 

All the pictures are taken with Instagram on my iphone....I'm completely obsessed with this app (as you can see from the amount taken!!) and introduced it to my friends which resulted in a little light competition as to who could take the best pics with it! Ha ha such fun :)

PS I don't know if you're interested to follow me there but i'm 'sarahillustrator' on it. 
let me know if you're on there too!