The SAA are very pleased to be supporting the World Illustration Awards by sponsoring The SAA Agents Award for New Talent.
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We would like to introduce you to Sophie Souris, the latest character from the ever imaginative Sophie Tilley. Sophie Souris is a little French mouse who has a beautiful vintage style dress shop and a heart of gold.
With Bologna Children's Book Fair coming up later this month, we couldn't think of a better time to be welcoming the arrival of this delightful character. Sophie Tilley is represented by Artist Partners
Childrens book illustrator Mandy Millie Flockton is working on an exciting new project. The hero is a very clever mouse who manages to find his way to the moon! Mandy’s endearing little character appeals to all ages and should be a great hit.
Mandy Millie Flockton is represented by Phosphor Art
We’ve had some great successes over the past month with our SAA Artists; Emily Bolam has just finished another fantastic book for Ladybird in the ‘This Little…’ series. Recent titles have included: This Little Angel and This Little Builder
Yasmeen Ismail’s Time For Bed Fred book is out now!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/time-for-bed-fred-9781408837009/
Yasmeen has also jumped across the pond, travelling to New York City and spending a development week with Blue Apple Books to work on her deluxe activity book with them. This will be published in 2013!
Lisa Hunt has recently produced some wonderful artwork for the lovely people at Inkrobin. The illustrations are for the cute story 'The Hippo, The Rhino, The Elephant and Me', a tale of the fun things you do when your friends are rather large animals! It is to be an exciting Ipad app, and the client was over the moon with the work Lisa did on it... see for yourselves!
Lisa Hunt is represented by the Organisation
Liberty, the World famous luxury lifestyle and fashion store in London, have commissioned Richard Johnson to design and create a stunning bespoke mural for the launch of their new children's department in March 2012. Richard has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to hand paint the area, and with his usual fabulous attention to detail and magical imagination, he has really created something special. So get down there and be transported to a world of wonder... even if you haven't got kids! It's a treat to see.
Richard Johnson is represented by The Organisation
Canadian born artist, Annie Wilkinson was one of 3 designers to launch the new website, with her idyllic ‘Plants’ baby apparel range.
Wordsation strives to curate artwork from artists who share in their excitement for creating one-of-a-kind baby apparel for your tiny treasure.
Wordsation offers original graphic designs on baby apparel. Their designs are created by a new designer each month exclusively for Wordsation. Each designer collection consists of 3 baby onesies that can be purchased as a subscription or as individual onesies. The designs in the collection are part of a theme, for example "Plants".
Look at the website to see Annie’s full range and details <https://wordsation.com/collections/all/products/plants-onesie-subscription-by-annie-wilkinson>
Annie Wilkinson is represented by The Bright Group
Here are two new book jackets by Katie Wood. Katie was commissioned by Scholastic to illustrate the new covers of their fabulous series ‘Main Street’. As an emerging talent in the world of Children’s publishing 2012 is an exciting year for Katie, with the launch of several new series’ featuring her cute artworks coming in the next few months. Katie Wood is represented by New Division
Viz Media commissioned Thomas Flintham to illustrate Mameshiba Love Winter. Recently published, this novelty book tells the tale of a group of clever beans who don their hats, scarves and earmuffs to brave the cold and build a snow castle. Thomas' delightful illustrations also include designs for stickers to decorate the pop up castle inside.
Thomas Flintham is represented by Arena
