tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post116101237629816463..comments2024-03-10T14:07:40.468-04:00Comments on Blue Rose Girls: Question of the week it: What author/illustrator do you most admire?Blue Rose Girlshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05224076615462128422noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1161704133084764312006-10-24T11:35:00.000-04:002006-10-24T11:35:00.000-04:00Interesting! I'm going to check some out and take ...Interesting! I'm going to check some out and take another look. Isn't ZEN SHORTS great! I love the page with the big hill.<BR/><BR/>I have so many favorite illusrtators. Here's a narrowed down list after Chris Van Allsburg and David Wiesner:<BR/>Mike Wimmer<BR/>Chris Gall<BR/>Christopher Bing<BR/>E.B. Lewis<BR/>Dan Andreasen<BR/>Kadir Nelson<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>gail<BR/>I sent Joan Bauer an email years ago after my son read one of her books and she sent me a thank-you email back! Which gives me an idea for a "Question of the week".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1161624186596043622006-10-23T13:23:00.000-04:002006-10-23T13:23:00.000-04:00Hmmm--true, but they all also illustrate text by o...Hmmm--true, but they all also illustrate text by other authors, too. And in fact, in most cases I enjoy those books more than the ones they've both written and illustrated. Except for ZEN SHORTS. That's my favorite.alvinalinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503984086482905226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1161617255979683432006-10-23T11:27:00.000-04:002006-10-23T11:27:00.000-04:00Alvina,Did you notice that all of the illustrators...Alvina,<BR/>Did you notice that all of the illustrators you picked, also write!<BR/>gailAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1161117995274673422006-10-17T16:46:00.000-04:002006-10-17T16:46:00.000-04:00It is too difficult to choose the illustrator I ad...It is too difficult to choose the illustrator I admire most. I WILL say that Ed Young is ONE of the artists I admire most. He is a master of different media in illustrating books for children: watercolors, pastels, charcoal, cut paper and collage. (I do feel some` illustrations in a few of his books are a bit too abstract.) <BR/><BR/><BR/>I love what Young does with just the color brown in the poetry anthology MICE ARE NICE. His use of black as the background in his Caldecott Honor Book SEVEN BLIND MICE is very effective. (Does he use black to symbolize the dark world of the blind mice?) I like the way he sometimes uses a book cover and endpapers to lead you into a story--as he does in SEVEN BLIND MICE and DESERT SONG. And some of the illustrations in LON PO PO are amazing--pictures hidden in others pictures. You sometimes miss what he's done in the first reading of the book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1161112059276354342006-10-17T15:07:00.000-04:002006-10-17T15:07:00.000-04:00Animators: Chuck Jones, Yuri Norstein, Ub IwerksAnimators: Chuck Jones, Yuri Norstein, Ub IwerksBonnie Bransonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09248210399299346127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1161111045034221792006-10-17T14:50:00.000-04:002006-10-17T14:50:00.000-04:00How about animators? AURÉLIE BLARD-QUINTARDHow about animators? <A HREF="http://aurelieblardquintard.blogspot.com/2006/08/plus-de-noumea.html" REL="nofollow">AURÉLIE BLARD-QUINTARD</A>Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13074521674306994839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1161038321266294222006-10-16T18:38:00.000-04:002006-10-16T18:38:00.000-04:00Gennady Spirin,Ivan Bilibin,John Howe,James Christ...Gennady Spirin,Ivan Bilibin,<BR/>John Howe,James Christensen,<BR/>Tony DiTerlizzi,Loren Long,<BR/>Lizbeth Zwerger,Micheal Sowa,<BR/>William Low,Trina Schart Hyman, N.C. Wyeth,Leuyen Pham, Dan Yaccarino, Kevin Hawkes, Peter Ferguson and Kadir Nelson....Bonnie Bransonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09248210399299346127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1161021480889983722006-10-16T13:58:00.000-04:002006-10-16T13:58:00.000-04:00My all time favorite is Lisbeth Zwerger. I discove...My all time favorite is Lisbeth Zwerger. I discovered her work in college, where I was studying landscape architecture, and from seeing her work slowly started to think about a different career- the one I have now. Every fall, I order her latest book. When it arrives it's like Christmas. I carefully open the box and when that cover is revealed I feel almost giddy. Then I start turning the pages and slowly letting my eyes travel the page and see what masterful thing this genius has come up with now. The paper used for her books is always so nice too. Every book has something completely fresh and new- constant reinvention.There is always humor and an orinal take on well known tales. The work looks so seamless...and when I think of what it took to pull off some of the deceptively simple looking elements (the last page of Little Hoblin comes to mind with the relfection in the water), I know this woman is a master and her craft. I'm currently waiting for her latest to arrive (any day now!), a version of the Bremen Town Musicians.<BR/><BR/>Next would be Wolf Erlbruch, Melissa Sweet, Holly Hobbie, Mo Willems, and and and....Stephanie Roth Sissonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10446071301465656460noreply@blogger.com