Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Edward Burne-Jones - The Fairy Family - A Series of Ballads & Metrical Tales Illustrating the Fairy Faith of Europe
These images owe a debt to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, in particular the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose work Burne-Jones was beginning to explore. The drawings for 'The Fairy Family' were all executed while Burne-Jones was matriculating at Exeter College, University of Oxford, as an undergraduate in divinity. He was neither studying nor in pursuit of a professional artistic career when these illustrations were undertaken.
This edition was owned by Sydney Cockerell, whose annotations are on the inside cover of this rare copy. His notes provide an insight into Burne-Jones's unease about this publication and its illustrations, which he never officially acknowledged. This was in spite of the large number of drawings that he produced for his friend, author Archibald Maclaren, beginning in 1854.
http://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1927P1616
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Blasted blogger!
Blogger is posting eveything straight away and ignoring scheduling. Apologies.
*** update ***
Note to me. Don't blame the software when you forget February only has 28 days in it!!!
Emily Gravett - Cave Baby
Julia Donaldson (Author), Emily Gravett (Illustrator)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cave-Baby-Julia-Donaldson/dp/0230743080/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298476650&sr=8-1
Friday, February 25, 2011
Nick Ward - Baby Pie
Tom MacRae (Author) , Nick Ward (Illustrator)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Baby-Pie-Tom-MacRae/dp/1842708686/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298399205&sr=8-1
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Arthur Joseph Gaskin - But One of Them, the Youngest, Remained Behind
illustration to the Wild Swans for Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales of 1894 (Vol.1, p.242).
London walk: poetry and literature in Kensington Gardens - interactive
[In 1912, Sir James (JM) Barrie - author of the Peter Pan books - hired sculptor Sir George Frampton to make a statue of the boy who never grew up. Barrie kept the project a secret, with only a select few, including Lewis Harcourt, the council's commissioner of works, aware of the plan. After it was finished, Barrie arranged for it to be put in Kensington Gardens in the middle of the night because he wanted people to believe it was magic. And on the morning of 1 May, 1912, there it was - and still is]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/interactive/2011/feb/23/poetry-walks-london-kensington-gardens
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Jasper Fforde - The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime Adventures 2)
The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit - is loose on the streets of Reading.
It isn't Jack Spratt's case. Despite the success of the Humpty Dumpty investigation, the well publicised failure to prevent Red Riding-Hood and her Gran being eaten once again plunges the Nursery Crime Division into controversy. Enforced non-involvement with the Gingerbreadman hunt looks to be frustrating until a chance encounter at the oddly familiar Deja-Vu Club leads them onto the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta 'Goldy' Hatchett, star reporter for The Daily Toad.
The last witnesses to see her alive were The Three Bears, comfortably living out a life of rural solitude in Andersen's wood. But all is not what it seems. Are the unexplained explosions around the globe somehow related to missing nuclear scientist Angus McGuffin? Is cucumber-growing really that dangerous? Why are National Security involved? But most important of all: How could the bears' porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fourth-Bear-Nursery-Crime-Adventures/dp/0340835737/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_10
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Margaret Chamberlain - The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate
Margaret Mahy (Author), Margaret Chamberlain (Illustrator)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whose-Mother-Pirate-Puffin-Picture/dp/0140554300/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298138929&sr=8-1
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
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