BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! The Bear will tromp through the forest on his big, hungry feet, and SNIFF! SNIFF! SNIFF! find the strawberry … No matter where it is hidden, or who is guarding it, or how it is disguised. Don Woods’ soft pencil drawings take the reader right into a rodent-scale environment. The lush greensContinue reading “The Little Mouse, the Ripe Red Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear 1984”
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Possum Magic 1983
From that time onwards Hush was visible. But once a year, on her birthday, she and Grandma Poss ate a vegemite sandwich, a piece of pavlova and a half a lamington, just to make sure that Hush stayed visible forever. Julie Vivas’s watercoloured scenes and characters exist in white space, anchored by the horizontal linesContinue reading “Possum Magic 1983”
George and Martha 1978
James Marshall has drawn George ministering to his friend Martha, who has foolishly spent too long in the sun. Although these animals live in suburbia there are signs that it strains to accommodate them : her pretty rose quilt sags to the floor and the doorway seems to ease upwards to let George through. AContinue reading “George and Martha 1978”
40 Years of Picture Books 