my mum loved the art of edward ardizzone, an illustrator who somehow understated his skills with a his loose penmanship, but never failed to fill his pictures with appropriately theatrical lighting and atmosphere, old-world romance, and vigourous body-language
One of my earliest memories of reading is of a book illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. I was, and still am enchanted, by his style.
ReplyDeleteStig of the Dump was the star book at our Junior School for what seemed like months - we used to fight to be the next to read it. Thanks for the memory jog ;)
Here via Lucy's Blog. Scrolling though and damn me here you are writing about a book that came to my mind yesterday when talking about children's book. I could not remember the author...so now I can chase it up and read it again.
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... and damn me, too, if you are not both very welcome ! xx
ReplyDeleteOh the books I read as a child, with his pictures in... hundreds of them! Marvellous. I loved him then and now. What you say about the dramatic lighting is so true.
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