Above: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Meg Hunt
I talked about Picture Book Report in class the other day, but I really want you all to take a better look at it. This site was launched in PERFECT timing with your children's illustration book project. Please spend some time with this amazing new place on the internet! Site description written by organizer Meg Hunt below:
Picture Book Report is an extended love-song to books. Fifteen illustrators will reach out to their favorite books and create wonderful pieces of art in response to the text that has moved them, shaped them, or excited them. From sci-fi to children’s books to fantasy to serious novels, we’ll cover them all. For three weeks out of every month there will be a new illustration every day from one of us along with our thoughts, process, anything we can come up with. Together we will try to excite readers both new and old and capture some of that magic of storytelling.
above: Ella Minnow Pea, illustrated by Lizzy Stewart
above: Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, illustrated by John Martz
above: The Secret of Nimh by Julia Sonomi Heglund
There are a TON more wonderful examples on the picturebookreport website. GO AND VISIT!