![]() ![]() One of the many strengths of this book is the detailed information about the varied techniques used to make the illustrations, from colour-separations to watercolours, etchings to stencils. ![]() He is a man who knows his stuff, having previously published two other books on the subject: Play Pen: New Children’s Book Illustration (2007), and Children’s Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling (2011) with Morag Styles, professor of children’s literature at the University of Cambridge. ![]() But overall this is a fascinating collection of images produced for young people.Įach entry is accompanied by a short text by Salisbury. This is a big subject and, by his own admission, there is not a ‘particularly even spread in terms of geography or time’, and a few books are not works for children. Starting from 1910 and ending in 2014, this large-format book shows illustrations from 100 picturebooks from around the world, selected by Martin Salisbury, professor of illustration at Cambridge School of Art in Anglia Ruskin University. ![]()
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