Childhood Favourites: Illustrators!

      Illustrators. The all-too-often unsung heroes of children's books. A good book for kids is nothing without, quite frankly, a magician with a paintbrush at the helm, conjuring up the worlds authors had created for small people. These incredibly talented individuals give children the building blocks for imagination and they help them picture difficult, beautiful and impossible things.

      I've always regarded the marriage of author and illustrator to be a really special one. It must be done right. Often, I remember a book, but cannot for the life of me remember the name or author, but I can SEE the book in my mind! That is the sign of an amazing illustrator - one who can stand the test of time and make a permanent mark on someone's mind.*

     Below, I have listed a few of my favourites!

BookTrust: In Other Words

    If you are a hard-core Bookmarks and Buttons fan, you will know that I went to London Book Fair last week. If you are new here: I went to London Book Fair last week. Brilliant, you are all up to date. Let us get started.

    I got well and truly stuck into my first ever LBF and attended some pretty amazing talks. By far, my favourite one was on Wednesday afternoon, called 'BookTrust announces 2018 Honour Titles for In Other Words with Waterstones Children's Laureate Lauren Child and Chris Riddell'. Such a snappy title... 

London Book Fair 2018!

    I went to London Book Fair!! This time last year, while I was still at university and blissfully unaware of the Real World, I said to myself: "I WILL go to the ball London Book Fair!".

    Nothing can prepare you for the sheer expanse of it. Pictures don't even do it justice (when do they ever, tbh?) hence why I didn't bother taking one. I had actually been to Olympia a trillion years ago when I went with my school for the University Fair. LBF must have used every single corner and crevice because it was absolutely huge. I am told Bologna is 8 times bigger so my tiny brain has well and truly been fried.

Little Red Reading Hood!

Lucy Rowland's (very meta) re-imagining of the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood is one not to be missed.

 

Oh, would you just look at this front cover? That gorgeous silver title font!!!!! Put it on my gravestone!!!!!