Blair Lent III

 

An amazing book by Blair Lent, where a whaler, stranded on a remote island is rescued and goes on an incredible adventure back home to Nantucket. John Tabor was published in 1966.

Blair's illustrations are made in a similar print technique to his book 'Pistachio, I particularly love the pale details of the underwater city above.

New England sea ports and sea lore were a fascination for Blair Lent. His Great-Grandfather was a Cape Cod sailing master, captain of a clipper ship. It was on Nantucket that Blair learned the legend of John Tabor.

Alice and Martin Provensen,

'Birds, beasts, and the third thing' : poems by David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen, published in 1982

Beni Montresor II

An illustrated book, but not a children's book; 'The Last Savage' is an opera by Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007) that was illustrated by Beni Montresor and published in 1964. In this book the imagery is very akin to stage set illustrations.

Beni Montresor I

'Willy O'Dwyer jumped in the fire'; variations on a folk rhyme by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers, illustrated by illustrator and costume and set designer Beni Montresor (1926-2001) published in 1968 by Atheneum. 

This book has fully drenched high contrast psychedelic colour illustrations, interspersed with single colour red ones to take the rhyme forward.

Feodor Rojankovsky II

 

Feodor Rojankovsky produced many alphabet books and in  'Animals in the Zoo' Published in 1962  by Alfred A. Knopfone, Feodor's love of animals shows throughout.