CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATION

What's hot in the publishing world this minute? Coloring books for all ages, and here are a few fun ones from Free Period Press. Full of patterns, scrummy flowers (by Caty Zocco) and animals ('Creative Creatures' by illustrator Melanie Mikecz), and they've also created sets of colorable prints, produced on thicker paper. Teachers can download a free PDF for the classroom, too. Check it all out here…

Fun illustrations by Philip Giordano, an Italian artist living in Japan…

Click - to visit a beautiful collection of swimming spots posted by Julie Paschkis
including work by JiHyeon Lee 

Illustrator Sydney Smith's delightful alphabet. See my previous post on his wonderful new book, 'Sidewalk Flowers' here...

Spanish author Daniel Nesquens has written a goofy short chapter book about a talking hippo's quest to return home to his jungle in Africa. Mr. H, the hippopotamus, asks a young zoo visitor to open his cage so he can leave his unfulfilling life in captivity.  

The path to the jungle is an urban one filled with traffic, a mysteriously acquired suit and tie, fun in the park, and dining in a fancy pizza restaurant. The hippo and the plot meander (in a good, Syd Hoff kind of way) and the story comes to an open-ended/existential ending.  

The confident, airy and stylish paintings by Luciano Lozano are reminiscent of Roger Duvoisin and Miroslav Šašek, with a little James Marshall in there too, and add to the breezy feel of the story. 




jpeg of illustration from MR. H from Mr. Lozano's  wonderful blog
ISBN-13: 9780802854407Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing CompanyPublication date: 2/1/2015Pages: 61Age range: 7 - 10 YearsThank you to Eerdmans for the review copy.

Illustrator Andrea D'Aquino has gone to town with her gorgeous version of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', to be published in 2015 by Rockport...