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From the creator of Otto Blotter Bird Spotter comes a brand-new oceanic adventure by author and illustrator Graham Carter. The Story Thief with its shimmering foiled cover and atmospheric colour pallet emerges a new timeless classic published by Andersen Press.
How many more sleeps until Christmas? Its fast approaching and we have some lovely books hitting the bookshelves.
This wonderful book written by Tony Mitton and beautifully illustrated by our own Diana Mayo and published by Bloomsbury is a timeless and magical story about belonging.
The book is a festive treat for the eyes, and the ideal Christmas gift.
For more of Diana’s fabulous work please go to the Artist Partners website to see more of her stunning images.
The 5th book in the German edition of the Cazelet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard was published this month, featuring a wonderful retro cover illustration by Garry Walton. To see more of Garry's work, click here.
The Education of Ivy Edwards by Hannah Tovey hit the shelves this week, featuring a wonderfully vibrant cover by Hello Marine. Marine’s bold, contemporary art style perfectly captures this joyous and surprising novel. To see more of Marine's work, click here.
Get ready to walk 100 steps with Adam Larkum's latest illustrated book about the famous Captain Sir Tom Moore.
Kate Forrester has created illustrations for an animation announcing the new flavours of beers for Modelo USA.
Katie Ponder has illustrated “Greek Myths”, a new collection of the classic tales written by Jean Menzies and published by DK.
In Case You Missed It by Lindsey Kelk hit the shelves this week, featuring this beautifully elegant and stylish cover illustration by Lucy Truman. To see more of Lucy's work, click here.
The trailer for Lucy Rose Cartwright’s new book “Wild City” starts off with a city townhouse, revealed to be surrounded by all kinds of flora and fauna, some expected, but some… definitely unexpected! Flamingoes?!
These are the kind of reveals and unexpected communities we can expect to find in “Wild City”, an exploration of cities round the world and the creatures we share them with. Illustrated by Lucy Rose Cartwright and written by the award winning natural history author Ben Hoare, the book takes the reader from London to Singapore to Rio de Janeiro.
Initially approached to create the cover and a few sample spreads, Lucy’s illustrative approach was then used throughout the full book. Lucy worked closely with designer Laura Hall to make sure that all the correct animals and feature of each city were included before working up her sketches into full colour illustrations!
The danger with working on images like these however, is enjoying getting lost in the details a little too much, “I had to be strict on how much time I could spend on each page, it was very easy to get caught up in adding too much detail.” But being strict didn’t mean that Lucy didn’t enjoy the brief, “I really enjoyed this project and felt so grateful to be part of it. The most exciting time for me is when you first receive the brief and you sit down and sketch out all your ideas, I still sketch all of my roughs by hand rather than using my iPad as I love the physicality of drawing on paper. ”
Wild City is out via Macmillan Kids Publishing in Autumn 2020.
See the full trailer here.
Phosphor Art's Bill Sanderson recently illustrated some title pages for J.R.R. Tolkien's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.