Frances McKay Illustration

The People's Book Prize 2011/12

Bee Willey's The Mouse who saved Egypt written by Karim Alrawi and published by Tradewind Books has been entered into the children's books section of  The People's Book Prize.

 

Images 35

It's that time of the year again when the great and good in British Illustration pop up in the A.O.I's 'IMAGES' annual. Judgement on number 36 is out soon, while IMAGES 35 recently had it's private view in London, where the various awards in different categories were dished out. Work to appear in the annual is jury selected, so not every Tom Dick and Harry can get in, and subsequently the standard is always high.

Well we are happy here at team FMI to say that we have had not just one, nor two, but three people manage to get into the hefty tome. And if that wasn't enough, some of them even got a number of illustrations into it.

The Big Draw 2011

As part of the Big Draw 2011, a number of Illustrators in Bristol U.K. will be holding an event this Saturday 8th October.

Children's Book Rally

 
Throughout September the wonderful Illustration Rally will be running a 'Children's Book Rally'. This is one to enter!

Make no mistake there is a nice prize for the winner but the real beauty of it, as with all Illustration Rally's rallys, is that all entries will be posted on their blog. We'll also be featuring the winner, runners up and note worthy entries too!

 

This is about showcasing the good, the budding and the talented, showing new ideas and hopefully pushing the boundaries of children's book illustration for all to enjoy, including our industry following. Are you ready?

49 Brilliant Picture Books from the past 5 years as chosen by Award Winning Illustrators

 

This post by Zoe Toft featured on Playing by the Book back in April this year. It's so good we are putting it up again for those of you that missed it the first time - Enjoy!

 

Reading is an invitation to dream

A re-blog of a beautiful post from Playing by the Book by Zoe Toft.

In a little departure from the norm, today I’m not reviewing a book, but rather a film, Eleanor’s Secret, directed by Dominique Monfery.

The reason why I’ve wanted to share Eleanor’s Secret with you is because it is a celebration of the joy of reading and a tribute to the power and magic of stories.

Seven year old Nat cannot yet read and is terribly disappointed when he discovers he has inherited his Aunt’s library. Although he adored having stories read to him by his Aunt, when Nat himself opens a book he almost drowns in a jumble of letters. Understandably Nat wants nothing to do with what makes him feel so uncomfortable.

Paint it! Make it! Party for Japan!

 

 

Illustration Rally are extremely excited to announce their very first event! They are getting together with some really great artists and putting on something special for our great community, and you know it's gonna be good when there is live drawing, origami, cakes and zine making, where you can bind and customise your own zine with the work of some of the hottest illustrators around!

To see the line up of great artists involved and for more details visit Illustration Rally. Twitter hash tag #paintitmakeit

The Creature Alphabet

 

(Image from Creature Mag)

 

Creature is seeking 26 Artists to take part in an exciting new collaboration… to create The Creature Alphabet. 

Whilst I am here, have you entered One Minuet Creatures yet? 

And, and, and.... there are more ways to contribute to Creature.

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