1. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. 2007. ARTIST TO ARTIST: 23 MAJOR ILLUSTRATORS TALK TO CHILDREN ABOUT THEIR ART. New York, NY: Penguin Young Readers Group. ISBN 9780399246005
2. PLOT SUMMARY
Twenty-two artists who illustrate children’s books (Mitsumasa Anno, Quentin Blake, Ashley Bryan, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Eric Carle, Tomie dePaola, Jane Dyer, Mordical Gerstein, Robert Ingpen, Steven Kellogg, Petra Mathers, Wendell Minor, Barry Moser, Jerry Pinkney, Alice Provensen, Marice Sendak, Gennady Spirin, Chris Van Allsburg, Rosemary Wells, Paul O. Zelinsky, Robert Sabuda, and Matthew Reinhart )share with children their art secrets.
One artist, Leo Lionni, has his secrets shared by his granddaughter since he was no longer living when this anthology was put together. This book includes pictures of the artists in their youth, their studios, samples of their work, and a self portrait of each artist.
3. CRITICAL ANALYSIS
This captivating book blends the advice of authors with pictures of their work from the beginning of their careers to pictures of their most visible mediums. Each author has a page filled with his/her words about their work, whether it be how they started, how they create their illustrations, or what inspires them, and a picture or two of them as children.
The opposite page has a full sized self portrait of the artist as an adult. This page them folds out to show sketches, book illustrations, photographs of their studios, and examples of their beginning works and their most famous works or examples of the medium they enjoy creating with.
Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart share an author’s page together since they created their works together. Their self portrait is a pop-out space robot with their faces showing through the window as the pilots.
Leo Lionni’s self portrait is inside his foldout page. His full page picture is his photograph. Since his granddaughter is in charge of his literature, she wrote about him. “All of his characters were part of his own self, and he thought that was probably true for every children’s book author.”—Annie Lionni
The proceeds from the sale of this extraordinary book go to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
4. REVIEW EXCERPTS
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL-“…a gorgeous, browsable gallery of international treasures.”
KIRKUS starred review-“Fun to read and view, this anthology is a treasure trove of creative insight and inspiration.”
5. CONNECTIONS
Reading about how these artists realized their dreams helps start a discussion on dreams of the future for our students.
Here are other books to promote these dreams and their discussion:
Humphrey, Sandra McLeod. DARE TO DREAM! : 25 EXTRAORDINARY LIVES. ISBN 9781591022800
Bosak, Susan V. DREAM: A TALE OF WONDER, WISDOM, & WISHES. ISBN 9781896232041
McGhee, Allison. SOMEDAY. ISBN 1416928111
Here is an autobiographical children’s book that shows how Tomie dePaola realized his dream:
dePaola, Tomie. THE ART LESSON. ISBN 9780698115729
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. 2007. ARTIST TO ARTIST: 23 MAJOR ILLUSTRATORS TALK TO CHILDREN ABOUT THEIR ART. New York, NY: Penguin Young Readers Group. ISBN 9780399246005
2. PLOT SUMMARY
Twenty-two artists who illustrate children’s books (Mitsumasa Anno, Quentin Blake, Ashley Bryan, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Eric Carle, Tomie dePaola, Jane Dyer, Mordical Gerstein, Robert Ingpen, Steven Kellogg, Petra Mathers, Wendell Minor, Barry Moser, Jerry Pinkney, Alice Provensen, Marice Sendak, Gennady Spirin, Chris Van Allsburg, Rosemary Wells, Paul O. Zelinsky, Robert Sabuda, and Matthew Reinhart )share with children their art secrets.
One artist, Leo Lionni, has his secrets shared by his granddaughter since he was no longer living when this anthology was put together. This book includes pictures of the artists in their youth, their studios, samples of their work, and a self portrait of each artist.
3. CRITICAL ANALYSIS
This captivating book blends the advice of authors with pictures of their work from the beginning of their careers to pictures of their most visible mediums. Each author has a page filled with his/her words about their work, whether it be how they started, how they create their illustrations, or what inspires them, and a picture or two of them as children.
The opposite page has a full sized self portrait of the artist as an adult. This page them folds out to show sketches, book illustrations, photographs of their studios, and examples of their beginning works and their most famous works or examples of the medium they enjoy creating with.
Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart share an author’s page together since they created their works together. Their self portrait is a pop-out space robot with their faces showing through the window as the pilots.
Leo Lionni’s self portrait is inside his foldout page. His full page picture is his photograph. Since his granddaughter is in charge of his literature, she wrote about him. “All of his characters were part of his own self, and he thought that was probably true for every children’s book author.”—Annie Lionni
The proceeds from the sale of this extraordinary book go to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
4. REVIEW EXCERPTS
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL-“…a gorgeous, browsable gallery of international treasures.”
KIRKUS starred review-“Fun to read and view, this anthology is a treasure trove of creative insight and inspiration.”
5. CONNECTIONS
Reading about how these artists realized their dreams helps start a discussion on dreams of the future for our students.
Here are other books to promote these dreams and their discussion:
Humphrey, Sandra McLeod. DARE TO DREAM! : 25 EXTRAORDINARY LIVES. ISBN 9781591022800
Bosak, Susan V. DREAM: A TALE OF WONDER, WISDOM, & WISHES. ISBN 9781896232041
McGhee, Allison. SOMEDAY. ISBN 1416928111
Here is an autobiographical children’s book that shows how Tomie dePaola realized his dream:
dePaola, Tomie. THE ART LESSON. ISBN 9780698115729
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