Book Illustrations

[shura]

These are some old beautifully illustrated children's books that i just found while rummaging through boxes in my basement. i used to love these books when i was younger, and i had completely forgotten how incredible the art was in them. i still love reading them. not only are they extremely well-written, but the art is just fucking fantastic. i know a lot of you have read "Where the Wild Things Are", and "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs." well these books are even better. children's picture books are so under-appreciated. These are absolutely amazing and you gotta check them out

Illustrator brandon dorman





brandon dorman's art is so beautiful it's just beyond words. here's a link to some of his illustrations that he's done for children's books. there are 4 pages of just mesmerizing artwork
http://www.brandondorman.com/site/illustration2.htm

These two books are by Graeme Base. It's a book where you have to find things, like "where's waldo", but the drawings are much more elaborate, detailed,  and just fucking incredible. where's waldo is a piece of shit next to this.


Here's another book by Jack Prelutsky and Illustrator Kevin Hawkes. kevin hawkes' art is very similar to brandon dorman's. The illustrations are bright, colorful, surrealist and very imaginative.
You have to read "Imagine That". It's a collection of children's poetry by various authors. i couldn't find any pics on the internet but the poetry/artwork is wonderful. i actually got a chance to meet jack prelutsky when i was 10, and he autographed my copy of this book. he lives in seattle i think


Weslandia is another beautifully illustrated book by Kevin Hawkes



This is another one of my favorites. It's by Audrey and Don Wood. The drawings are so cute it actually hurts.



"Varmits" is a new children's book that I found recently by Helen Ward and Illustrator Marc Craste. It's slightly more adult than the rest and i think you can still find this one in bookstores. i would give a quick book summary but i think this post is getting long.

[psi43]

I love the first and the last one, they're great.

[Loathsome]

guhguhg I never had cool books as a kid, only these really kiddo-like ones, lol.

[rtil]

i don't have any more childrens books , i left them all at my house to my little brother.  i've never seen any of the illustrations you've posted, they're all great

[Ashington]

I love the fuck out of that last picture.

[DrRumack]

animalia is a cool book one of my childhood favorites

[spite]

awesome.
I loved books like these.

[shura]

me too. i miss them a lot

[Thuberbaer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJQ4RTo6hRg