HELEN OXENBURY: A Life In Illustration

'The shape of the figures, the colour of the sky, the movement across the pages and between the pages enable everyone from the very youngest of children to interpret this drama for themselves. And this is all invented and created by Helen. And it prioritises the child looker-on, because in most circumstances, the wordy stuff is read aloud by the adult and the child is left to probe and question Helen's paintings.' - Michael Rosen. Superb artworks in themselves, these huge pages give due credit to an artistic genius whose children's books have delighted readers for many decades with her more modern interpretations of such classics as Alice In Wonderland, and her wonderful humour when working with great writers and editors at Walker Books. Helen is the illustrator of such picture book classics as We're Going On A Bear Hunt, Farmer Duck, Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, and she has won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal twice - in 1969 for The Quangle Wangle's Hat and The Dragon of An Ordinary Family, and in 1999 for Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. Filled with insights in her life from her early childhood through a career in children's books that began in 1964 and is still going strong today, here is an exquisitely designed and thoroughly entertaining celebration written by an acclaimed children's books scholar. Motherhood and career, wonderful collaborations, mishaps, scenes and settings, animals rebelling, luminous space, and all along her marriage to John, family life plus a wonderful bibliography of all of her works right back from 1967 together with a list of her well-deserved awards. With satin pagemarker, gorgeous full page colour, many double page artworks of her extraordinary art plus colour photos. 280pp, 24.5 x 27.5cm.
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