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Despite illustrating one of the most recognisable literary creations of all time, the Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler identifies as one of life’s shy tortoises. He speaks to Nicolette Jones about returning to the Gruffalo after 20 years, his new book Welcome and being a migrant @thetimesbooks

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Rebecca Dautremer, a stunning spread fromThe Ordinary Life of Jacominus Gainsborough. Much of the extraordinary artwork seems to owe something to fine artists from Breughel to Magritte. This one suggests a homage to Jack Vettriano. @postwavebooks.bsky.social 22 May.

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by David Roberts from his book We Are Your Children: a History of LGBTQ+ Activism, with an afterword by Juno Dawson. Scene from the first Gay Pride march in 1972, depicted with Roberts’ characteristic fine line, elegance & clarity. Two Hoots 22 May @twohootsbooks.bsky.social

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Beth Suzanna from See For Yourself, a picturebook by Jordan Stephens about a father who helps his son realise his dream of going to the bottom of the ocean. With soft strokes of colour, warmth and skilled draughtsmanship. Bloomsbury 22 May. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

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My Picture This piece about illustrating bears is in this issue of @booksforkeeps.bsky.social. I found three categories of bear illustrations ...

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Am I a) declaiming Mark Antony’s speech from Julius Caesar? Or b) thanking the attendees at the opening of the exhibition of Dad’s paintings? (My scarf was painted on silk by my father.) The exhibition runs at 11 Canonbury Place, N1, 10 to 4 daily until 13 July. www.johnedwardjones.co.uk.

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Natalia Rojas Castro from 500 Dreams, Magic Cat 8 May. With zinging colour, and text by Jennifer Eckford, this search-and-find book offers dreams to choose that make going to sleep seem the most exciting thing. Eg: be the star of the show. @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social

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Am I a) declaiming Mark Antony’s speech from Julius Caesar? Or b) thanking the attendees at the opening of the exhibition of Dad’s paintings? (My scarf was painted on silk by my father.) The exhibition runs at 11 Canonbury Place, N1, 10 to 4 daily until 13 July. www.johnedwardjones.co.uk.

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#NewIllustrationoftheDay. Polished work by David Melling from Do You See the Tiger?, with text by Philip Ardagh. In which a child is the only person who sees the tiger on the underground. Out from Walker Books on 20 May. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @philipardagh.bsky.social

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by R W Alley from Amazing Paddington Stories, a collection of three Michael Bond adventures. Paddington joins the grand circus parade from Paddington at the Circus. Republished in paperback by Harper Collins Children’s Books 8 May. @harpercollins.bsky.social #PaddingtonBear

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Some of Dad’s paintings (www.johnedwardjones.co.uk) are on show in the café and downstairs at The Place, 11 Canonbury Place, N1, 8 minutes’ walk from Highbury & Islington tube, until 13 July. All (unsold) paintings are for sale. Open every day 10am-4pm. Enquiries to sje@lodeveans or 07939 141740.

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My Picture This piece about illustrating bears is in this issue of @booksforkeeps.bsky.social. I found three categories of bear illustrations ...

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@NewIllustrationoftheDay from one of the three books on the shortlist announced this morning for the #KlausFlugge Prize for a debut picturebook. By Mikey Please from The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods, a striking debut delighting in the grotesque. @harpercollins.bsky.social @mikeyplease.bsky.social

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by French illustrator/political cartoonist Jacques Goldstyn. Spread in ink and wash from The World of Maxime about a 10-year-old who loves books and cats and befriends an old lady. Text by Lucile de Peslouan. Classic characterful hand-drawn cartoons. Greystone Kids 20 May.

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Emma Chichester Clark for Quentin Blake’s text in their picturebook Liliana the Strong. Out from Two Hoots 15 May. Liliana is under the weather so not as strong as normal but her parents still bring her iron girders to bend whilst she recovers. @twohootsbooks.bsky.social

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#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Philip Giordano from non-fiction picturebook Wild Your World: Bees, with text by CamIlla de la Bedoyere. Flat graphics inventively employed, using reductive symbols but conveying information about bees strikingly and decoratively. Design Eye 6 May @quartokids.bsky.social

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Eunyoung Seo from Cat Family: Four Seasons, a lift-the-flap book with 140 flaps, written by Lucy Brownridge. Cosy, detailed spreads of anthropomorphised animals having fun all year round. Cute summer camping scene here. Frances Lincoln 8 May. @quartokids.bsky.social

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Frann Preston-Gannon from her chapter book Little Lim and The Golden Treasure about web-footed, green ‘rockpoolers’ Limpet & her dad, ’the best baker on the whole island’, depicted with solid shapes, warmth, vivid colour. Piccadilly Press 8 May. @bonnierbooks.bsky.social

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🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

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🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Chinese illustrator Daishu Ma who works in London. From her picturebook, Tiger, Don’t Worry! Simple shapes with texture and humour tell a forgiving story about admitting mistakes, and a little girl’s friendship with a tiger. Post Wave 8 May. @postwavebooks.bsky.social

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#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Italian illustrator Rossana Bossu from The Jellyfish Garden: Explore Their Curious World by Paola Vitale, published last year by Post Wave and now longlisted for the School Library Association Information Book Award. @postwavebooks.bsky.social #informationbookaward #sla

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Neal Layton from the funny and original picturebook Danny McGee Drinks the Sea by Andy Stanton. Suitably wacky drawing as well as collage in this image of America (with the description it used to be known by). Paperback from Faber on 8 May. @faberbooks.bsky.social

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#NewllustrationoftheDay by Sharon Rentta from This Letter Says I Love You, a picturebook with text by Lucy Rowland based on Matilda Handy's postbox project for the bereaved to write to those they've lost. Gentle, observant draughtsmanship & clear visual storytelling. @scholasticuk.bsky.social 8 May.

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Cressida Cowell from How to Train Your Dragon School: Doom of the Darkwing. Characteristically uninhibited pencil work with a sense of humour and a delight in the grotesque. Gobber the Belch complete with hairy legs and forearms. Hodder 8 May. @cressidacowell.bsky.social

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🥰🥰🥰 I am such an Ibbotson fanboy! #booksky

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Guilherme Karsten from Once I Was a Tree, a witty picturebook by Eoin McLaughlin about the history of a book and the part played by a squirrel’s bottom. This sideways spread makes use of a collage effect and a playful sense of fun. Nosy Crow 8 May. @nosycrow.bsky.social

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by artist Kengo Kurimoto from his debut graphic novel Wildful, about a girl who finds consolation for sadness in nature, and helps her mother find its healing power. Skilled draughtsmanship takes us into each monochrome scene. Pushkin Press 8 May @kengokurimoto.bsky.social

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Sally Gardner. From a republished hardback of her gentle 2001 fairy tale set in Venice, The Glass Heart. Delicate line-drawing and exquisite scene-setting rich in miniaturist detail. From Head of Zeus, reissued 8 May. @headofzeus.bsky.social @sallygardnerart.bsky.social

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Remembering this special talk with the late Judith Kerr at Jewish Book Week 2016, one of the world's finest and best-loved writers for children and young adults, in conversation with @nicolettejones.bsky.social Enjoy the full talk and other JBW favourites on our brand new JLF Player, coming soon!

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Swedish-German author-illustrator Ole Konnecke from his funny and informative picturebook Diggers, Dozers & Dumpers. Detail of Cordula Cow in high heels transporting a grand piano with a telescopic crane. Gecko Press 6 May. Translator Melody Shaw @geckopress.bsky.social

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Congratulations to Martin Impey on winning the English Association Picturebook Prize for this remarkable book, Blitz: One Family’s War. @martinimpey.bsky.social

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Maya Shleifer from Rainbow Breath, with text by Helen Cooper, a mindful picturebook about conquering wakefulness by thinking of colours. Walker Books 1 May. Detail from a spread of the intense red of a poppy field. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @helencooperbooks.bsky.social

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Chris Riddell. Finely drawn image, evoking his near namesake, of Peter Pot ‘n’ Pan who could fly before he grew up. From Riddell‘s illustrated novel Mermaid’s Diary, narrated by Atalanta Scrimshaw. Macmillan 1 May. @chrisriddell.bsky.social @macmillankidsuk.bsky.social

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Gill Smith. Half spread from Wild with text by Katya Balen about a child who finds nature in the city. Made with watercolour and soft pencil or crayon. Airy, free, expressive evocation of running a stick along city railings. Walker Books 1 May @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by a team of five German creators known as dame & dusa. Half a spread in pretty collage from The Ocean’s Heartbeat: the story of a convincingly depicted jellyfish, in search of a heart. From Dorling Kindersley 1 May. Translated by Anna Taube. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

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#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Australian Anna Read from a beautiful, inspiring picturebook by Martine Murray, The Wanting Monster. A creature sows greed & dissatisfaction, to the destruction of environment & community, until a child turns the tide. Enchanted Lion 29 April. @enchantedlion.bsky.social

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For the wonderful Eva Ibbotson's 100 birthday, I talked to her children about her. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

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I shall be talking about Raymond Briggs's When the Wind Blows on a panel at the Barbican on 28 May, after a screening of the film adaptation. www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Nick Butterworth, a foldout from his new picturebook Once Upon a Journey. Percy the Park Keeper and the park animals take a wind-powered sailing car on a camping trip and sleep under the stars. Out 24 April, HarperCollins Children’s Books. @harpercollins.bsky.social

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