Children's book illustrations

[Estella*]

susanne jannsen


http://susanne.janssen.free.fr/
http://www.kinderbuch.net/

 

[Estella*]

women in children's book illustration
http://www.ortakales.com/illustrators/

 

[Estella*]

ingri and edgar parin d'aulaire
http://www.applebybooks.net/

 

[Estella*]

virginia lee burton
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/
and
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/

 

[BooBah]

my favorite two childrens illustrators are quentin blake and nick sharrett

quentin blake

aw, i love quentin blake and nick sharret. quentin blake always just reminds me of reading roald dahl books when i was young. i love that he has a greetings card range now aswell. awww

BFG
http://www.roalddahlmuseum.org/whatson/default.aspx

the witches
http://www.cuatrogatos.org/6portico.html

 

[kikidior]

i can't believe i didn't know about this thread. these illustrations take me back to my childhood. i used to love them so much that i stare at them for hours when i was a kid. beautiful and fantastical!

 

[sphagnum.esplanade]

I love Sara Fanelli, Richard Doyle & Ezra Jack Keats.





www.rileyillustration.com




www.podgallery.com




www.podgallery.com

 

[Choccie]

omg was looking through this thread wondering if anyone had mentioned Quentin Blake , he's so amazing!really simple pictures but they look so go

 

[model_strut]

beautiful

here are, in my opinion, two of the most brilliantly illustrated books that not that many people know about ...I hope the link works, as there are illustrations from the books there. They are beautiful!!!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0316573973/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-7892975-5455800#reader-link

"fairy wings"

(illustrations by dennis nolan) and the other book is entitled Emma Bean. google it

 

[two months off]

that link you posted, nice stuff model_strut. Very delicate, it's quite lovely.

 

[Yimi]

oooh!!! beautiful, beautiful works,
I just imagine that the quality in printed version is better
i fell in love with this thread

 

[drifter-sister]

This is just such a brilliant thread! The quantity and quality of all the contributions are really great. Just to follow on from the Cecily Mary Barker flower-personification theme, here are a few Jean Grandville illustrations, which I think weren't actually classified as children's illustrations when they were first printed, but probably would be in today's literary climate.

Frontpiece of Les Fleurs Animees

Hemlock (I think this might be a reference to Socrates' execution?)

Pomegranate blossom

Narcissus/Daffodil (I love the reference to the greek myth in this one)

Dahlia

Daisy

Link: http://www.printspast.com/les-fleurs-animees.htm (actually not where I hunted out all these pics. I did this ages ago and can't remember where exactly I saved mine from, but it was a hodgepodge of sites since I was trying to find some nice quality ones of each drawing.


And even though Halloween was yesterday, here's a belated pertinent drawing from J. Mugnaini:

The Halloween Tree

Link: sorry, I don't have one. This was sent to me by email from a friend.

 

[drifter-sister]

Hmm and I put this in a search but it didn't turn up any results, so I'm not sure if this website has been posted yet. Most enthusiasts probably already know about it, but this site's gallery:

http://nocloo.com/gallery2/

...is one of the best I've seen on the interwebs. It specialises in the Golden Age illustrators so there aren't any contemporary or post second world war illustrators listed there, but there are just so many beautiful Dulac/Nielsen/Rackham/Robinson etc collections there, some of which I've rarely seen posted elsewhere on the internet. Definitely worth a look if you're in the mood for some rummaging and procrastinating.

Anyway, I searched for this illustrator too, but he hasn't turned up so here are some Yamauchi Kazuaki stuff from his website (link posted below the pictures

Link: http://yamauchi.7days.tv/

 

[ChrissyM]

some nice new additions in here

the last post in particular really captured my attention
i love the colors and shapes... but i also love that the illustrations are of bees..
not because i love bees but because it reminds me of my father who has been a beekeeper as a hobby throughout his life

thanks

 

[Inaya]

Great thread, I wish I'd posted in here sooner.

I have actually had a tattoo of the cover art of Shel Silverstein's 'Where the Sidewalk Ends' (just an outline/sketch looking one as it appears on the book) across the top left side of my back for about 8 years now When I was a child, his books were so special to me above all others. And now I appreciate him just as much still for his artistic talents now that I am an artist myself.

 

[Whitelinen]

Does anyone have more from Ezra Jack Keats?

 

[kikidior]

some of jean grandville's work reminds me of alphonse mucha's illustrations, only a bit more comical (not meant to be negative). beautiful nonetheless.

 

[DosViolines]

Does anyone have more from Ezra Jack Keats?

You can find his work @ podgallery.com

 

[drifter-sister]

some of jean grandville's work reminds me of alphonse mucha's illustrations, only a bit more comical (not meant to be negative). beautiful nonetheless.

He was mainly known for his satirical cartoons so you're not far off by describing his style as being slightly comical. He's often anthropomorphicises (is that even a word?) animals to comment on the absurd folly of human society in both his political caricatures and (after the paper that published his works was censored) his book illustrations.

 

[Whitelinen]

Thanks for the tip, Dos Violines.