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| Caroline Smith - "Salomé" Exhibition | 19 August 2010 |
Caroline Smith's exhibition "Salomé" is running from 18th August - 14 September 2010 at the Chapelle des Bénédictines, St Jean D'Angely, SW France.
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| David Roberts & Chris Riddell - Shortlisted | 25 June 2010 |
The Kate Greenaway Medal was established in 1955, for distinguished illustration in a book for children. It is named after the popular nineteenth century artist known for her fine children's illustrations and designs. The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded annually for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people. The medal is awarded by children's librarians. Two artist represented by AP were shortlisted for the The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2010. David Roberts and Chris Riddell (Chris is represented by AP for adult fiction and Advertising) are no strangers to the award. This year they were nominated for: David Roberts - illustrations for THE DUNDERHEADS - by Paul Fleischman
Chris Riddell illustrations for THE GRAVEYARD BOOK by Neil Gaiman
The black and white illustrations, reminiscent of old-fashioned book plates, really add to the story, enabling the reader to visualise its weird and wonderful cast of characters. The portraits of Eliza, and the four Jacks are particularly memorable. |
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| Kaye Hodges - BP Portrait Award 2010 | 24 June 2010 |
The portrait shows Kaye's son, Leon, a keen hockey player who plays for his school and his local team, Marden Russets, at Marden in the Weald of Kent. Hodges was inspired by the luminosity of the team's yellow shirts and also wanted to capture her son's growing self-confidence and physical presence.
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| Lauren Bishop - Stella Summer Special | 22 June 2010 |
| Images for the Stella Summer Special supplement in The Telegraph on Sunday. | |
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| Mel Grant - Iron Maiden Cover | 09 June 2010 |
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The new album pictured here features artwork illustrated by AP's Melvyn Grant. It is 30 years since their first album 1980, The Final Frontier
will be their 15th studio album, making a remarkable average of
a new album every two years for 30 years and totalling over 80 million
album sales during this period. More info at Iron Maiden's site |
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| Brian Sanders - EVACUEE, a Wartime Childhood | 10 May 2010 |
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In 1940 Brian’s father was called up to fight in the war and was gone for the next five years. His mother took him to Somerset to collect his sister from where she had been sent to escape the Blitz and re-evacuated them all to safety in East Anglia. Seen through a child’s eyes, Brian Sanders’ intriguing recollections of being an evacuee are sometimes funny and often poignant. His highly detailed illustrations conjure a period of shortages when the arrival of the American forces meant chewing gum, comics and nylon stockings. It was also a time when pet rabbits went on holiday to their relatives - and never returned... Evacuee, a Wartime Childhood is now available. |
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| Books! Books! Books! | 25 February 2010 |
Illustrated by Chris Riddell – famous for his cartoons in The Observer newspapr – briefed by Andrew Rawnsley via Penguin Books art Director John Hamilton – published by Penguin Books.
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2009: Ben and Rachel have resigned themselves to a long, boring summer. Then they find the hidden underground vault in the garden-and inside it two frozen figures, a boy and a girl. And as if that isn't spooky enough, when Rachel accidentally presses a button, something unbelievable happens... Can Polly and Freddy adapt to the twenty-first century? Will their bodies survive having been in suspension for so long? And most important of all, what happened to their father-and why did he leave them frozen in time?
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The book telling the secret story of Britain's war in Iraq was illustrated by: Larry Rostant who produced a graphic and journalistic approach to the cover with his very own trademark photographic eye and imagery. John Harwood created, in 3D, a specialised typographical approach for a book of this calibre and weight. A great collaboration of talents merge!
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'Children will laugh out loud at the zany humour and the witty one-liners - while David Roberts' comical illustrations can't fail to raise a giggle'. Scholastic Literacy Time Plus magazine. |
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Miss Breakbone is a fearsome teacher: she shouts, she confiscates,
she makes kids cry. Until the Dunderheads – an unlikely band
of kids, with extraordinary hidden talents, decide to teach Miss
Breakbone a lesson she won't forget.
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, would be a completely
normal boy if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated
by ghosts. For it is in the land of the living that real danger
lurks, a danger that has already killed Bod's family.
The
End of The Party is Andrew Rawnsley’s astonishing account of life behind the
walls of Westminster and the internal machinations at the heart
of the New Labour government. It delivers more of the startling
revelations, penetrating insights and sharp wit that readers expect
from Britain's foremost political commentator and television documentary
maker. From the day of Labour’s second election victory in
2001 through to the events of 9/11, the Iraq War, the financial
crisis and the parliamentary expenses scandal; Rawnsley takes us
through the triumphs and tribulations of New Labour as well as the
incredible feuds and reconciliations between Tony Blair, Gordon
Brown, Peter Mandelson and Alistair Darling.
Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkes and illustration
by David Frankland, has won the Blue Peter Children’s Book
Award 2010.Freddy and Polly have always known their father is a
genius. So they've never minded helping him with his experiments.
Even when that means being put into cryonic suspension-having their
hearts frozen until their father wakes them up again. They know
it will only be for an hour or two, so there's nothing to worry
about...
Two artists working in synergy
and collaboration on a new, and highly anticipated non
fiction title by Mark Urban, entitled Task
Force Black - two
great talents working on the one cover, commissioned
by the designer Sean Garrehy at Little Brown Publishing.
Peter the Penguin
Pioneer by Daren King
and illustrated by David Roberts, is in the top three "Most Fun
Story With Pictures" in the Blue Peter Book Club.
