Maurice Sendak is widely recognised as an outstanding children's author, but he is more than that. He is an artist whose flair for visual storytelling is almost unmatched today. Jonathan Jones paids tribute in last weekend's Guardian magazine.
Very Highly Recommended, especially for the suggestions of possible influences, from Hogarth to Oldenberg and Runge.
The children's illustrator and author Helen Oxenbury, 69, spent her childhood in a turn-of-the-century house on the Suffolk coast, roller-skating, cycling along the scenic paths and sharing plates of chips...
piece by Ian Beck, in The Times
...most picture books cannot be published for British readers alone--but the international market is less welcoming than it was. Americans are favouring home-grown talent, says Wayne Winstone, who sells children's books, and eastern Europeans and Asians are developing their own distinctive styles of illustration. Michael Rosen blames the obsession with synthetic phonics for reducing children's reading horizons to badly drawn leaflets. For Jane Ray, an illustrator, a "culture of safety" among publishers has much to answer for....
