My friend from Kinderbookswitheverything and I visited an exhibition of UK children's book illustrators today entitled Drawing Words. It was set up in the foyer of Monkey Baa Theatre in Darling Harbour, Sydney. This exhibition was curated by Lauren Child the UK Children's Laureate (2017-2019). This exhibition has travelled to quite a few places around the world. It has been shown in cities across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and South America and now it is here in a Australia for a very short time. Drawing Words is inspired by Magic Pencil, a touring exhibition of children’s book illustration selected by the first UK Children’s Laureate, Quentin Blake, in 2002, which included Lauren Child’s early work.There are/were ten illustrators featured with examples of their work from one book each:
Jill Calder, Robert the Bruce (Birlinn)
Lauren Carlin, A World of Your Own (Phaidon)
Rebecca Cobb, Aunt Amelia (Macmillian Children’s Books)
William Grill, The Wolves of Currumpaw (Flying Eye Books)
Emily Hughes, Wild (Flying Eye Books)
Yasmeen Ismail, Time for Bed, Fred! (Bloomsbury)
Neal Layton, Emily Brown and the Thing (Hodder Children’s Books)
David Mackintosh, Marshall Armstrong Is New to Our School (Harper Collins)
Emily Rand, A Dog Day (Tate Publishing)
David Roberts, Tinder (Hachette)
Check out my post about One Word from Sophia illustrated by Yasmeen Ismail
I really liked the range of books Lauren Child selected - books for the youngest children for example Aunt Amelia by Rebecca Cobb right up to books for High School students such as the work of David Roberts and his book Tinder.
Here is a video where Lauren Child talks about her vision for this exhibition and you can also see each of the illustrators.
Here are a set of teachers notes designed to be used with the exhibition and also as a way to explore children's book illustrations with your students. And here is the Literature page from the British Council with further links.
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