A bit off topic: Illustrations

[an-english-girl.livejournal.com]

This is a question, either for Megan herself if she has the time to pop by, or for anyone who's going to a book tour event to ask Megan for me, please?

In one of the recent interviews, Megan mentioned reading the Green Knowe series as a child. Did her copies have the Peter Boston woodcut style illustrations in?





And does anyone else think they're just the sort of balance between showing and not telling that would make splendid illustrations for QT?

Comments

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

I have not read those books so I wouldn't know, but I LOVE these! Though I am all kinds of biased, since my own portfolio also has a very woodcut style, and my dream job would be to do interior illustrations for novels (as well as childrens picture books). I would be ALL OVER doing this type of illustration for this series.

But wait. Why haven't I done this yet? Perfect portfolio material! A project I would love!

Oh yeah. I have a toddler. ;-)

Though I am actually hoping that Thick as Thieves seizes my imagination so thoroughly that I won't be able to HELP throwing some spot illustrations together. We'll see. (Really, I don't think Megan will let me down. ;-)

[an-english-girl.livejournal.com]

Oooh, have you an online portfolio? For curious reprobates to admire? =)

If you do feel inspired into art by TAT, I could photograph the rest of the Green Knowe illustrations and figure out where in the book they come, to give you some more ideas for a whole project?

Toddlers are a good thing! For one thing, they are the next generation of QT fans!

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

My portfolio can be seen here:

sarahluann.com

And I think it would probably be easier to just see if I can get my hands on my own copy of the book somehow, so I can read it for myself ;-)

[filkferengi]

The very first one is _The Children Of Green Knowe_. There are no copies of that one currently at paperbackswap.com. The first one is my favorite. All the interconnectedness with history reminds me a bit of Ruth M. Arthur's books, with the fabulous Margery Gill illustrations.

[qwentoozla]

I don't know about Megan, but I had those books with those illustrations! I loved them as a child. How cool that Megan loved them too. :)

[an-english-girl.livejournal.com]

They're quite high-brow art for a children's book, I suppose now. But that just makes them all the nicer =)
I think Megan said the stories Tolly's grandmother tells inspired her "inset tales" of the gods that are scattered through QT