In this illustration of the Letterland character Golden Girl, Ms May has drawn a green G to be her head, before gluing long lemon-coloured yarn as hair. Are the Girl’s arms reaching to catch it or comb it? Who knows. She stands, in her hand-crayonned beauty, between two puddles of very carefully applied glitter. ThisContinue reading “Letterland Book by Ms May 2001”
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The Aboriginal Children’s History of Australia 1977
Year 1 of 40 ‘This is our land. It goes back, a long way back, into the Dreamtime, into the land of our Dreaming.’ In paintings, drawings in texta and pencil, children from communities all over Australia tell stories from their world in the late 1970s, and times past. The format of the book isContinue reading “The Aboriginal Children’s History of Australia 1977”
40 Years of Picture Books 