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Activity: Creating a collage of a favourite place
Illustrations play a vital role in a picture book. They provide information about the story or characters that are not spoken about in the text. In fact, there are many wordless picture books that tell...
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Happy Birthday Eric Carle: Art Inspiration
Eric Carle has had a wonderful impact on generations of children. I’ve heard him interviewed a number of times and he regularly talks about the simplicity of his artwork. This simplicity, along with...
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A First Birthday Party (Online)- Closed
Yes, this is a belated celebration. My Little Bookcase officially turned one on November 16. My family and I had some stormy weather to get through at the time, so the lovely Mandi Johnston wrote a...
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5 Fun Activities to do with 10 Tiny Things-book by Meg McKinlay
BOOK INSPIRATION + REVIEW: Ten Tiny Things is an absolutely exquisite book, with a very significant message. The language in the book is beautiful and alliterative, and the illustrations painted on...
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MASSIVE DISCOUNT on An Illustrated Year: My Little Bookcase Calendar 2013
I spent a large portion of last year putting together An Illustrated Year: My Little Bookcase Calendar 2013. I came up with the idea half way through my pregnancy. I had developed a bad case of baby...
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An Illustrated Year 2013 Calendar- About Sue deGennaro (Miss February)
About February’s Illustration: Sue deGennaro created this illustration for The Vegetable Ark. Sue and Allen & Unwin kindly granted us permission to use the illustration in An Illustrated Year:...
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An Illustrated Year 2013 Calendar: About Sally Rippin (Miss April)
About April’s Illustration: ‘Boy, Book, Bird‘ was an illustration commissioned by the Department of Education for the Premier’s Reading Challenge poster a few years back. They didn’t end up using it...
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A Family Art Gallery: Displaying children’s book-inspired artwork
We are often inspired by picture book illustrations and artwork when we sit down at our creative table, and we’ve accumulated quite a large collection of artistic pieces (Below is just a small...
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