A book with a view | 3

This weeks book with a view is one of my favourite illustrators working Ireland – Mr Alan Clarke.

Alan’s book work has included giving life to Ross O’Carroll Kelly as well as illustrating the award winning Something Beginning with P and Eddie Lenihan’s Irish Tales of Mystery and Magic. Hopefully he can be persuaded to write/draw his own book soon – ah go on.

If some word-gobbling wizard came and snatched all the poems out of this new anthology, it would still be a pleasure to browse through. Every page [is] a dramatic, often zany display of characters, creatures and tumbling objects, all in spectacular colours. This anthology sets no boundaries to where the imagination can go.’ Gordon Snell, The Irish Times (Something Beginning with P)

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‘Book with a view’ is a series (every Tuesday) on children’s book illustrators – from Sendak, Benson, Shepard and Blake right through to the next generation of Dunbar, Haughton, Jeffers, Child and Sharkey. I’m no expert and I’m open to any/all recommendations – I’d love to find books that I’ve never come across – so if you have a suggestion, send it on.

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