by IBBY | Jan 6, 2022 | IBBYLink Autumn 2020
Landscapes back to IBBYLink Autumn 2020 David Almond When I was a young teenager, we moved to an oval-shaped estate, a ring of small semi-detached houses, just above the heart of the town. The rooms were small, I shared a bedroom with my brother, but there was open...
by IBBY | Jan 6, 2022 | IBBYLink Autumn 2020
The Importance of Place back to IBBYLink Autumn 2020 Salvatore Rubbino As an illustrator I spend my day drawing and thinking about pictures. My job is to interpret stories and create a visual world alongside the text, to complement the story and also to draw out its...
by IBBY | Jan 6, 2022 | IBBYLink Autumn 2020
Distance, Direction and Landscape: A Cartographic Study in Picture Books back to IBBYLink Autumn 2020 Dr Karenanne Knight ‘Twenty four feet is puddlenuts in Giant Country.’From The BFG by Roald Dahl. The concept of ‘far away’ to an under five-year-old is...
by IBBY | Jan 6, 2022 | IBBYLink Autumn 2020
Landscapes and Stories back to IBBYLink Autumn 2020 ‘Philip Reeve in a Tolkien setting’. Philip Reeve Philip Larkin was broadly correct about parents, but if you’re lucky they hand you down some good things along with all that misery-deepening-like-a-coastal-shelf...
by IBBY | Jan 6, 2022 | IBBYLink Autumn 2020
Storied Places and Emplaced Stories: Landscape in Welsh and Irish Fairy Tales back to IBBYLink Autumn 2020 Jane Carroll Fairy tales are notoriously slippery things. That is, perhaps, part of their great appeal. The narratives are highly supple, existing in many...
