It is all going to go a bit wild and busy here for at least a month, as I lead you down a long and windy path of endpapers, with bursting, busy posts of images and information.
Rarely do I make a post of more than one artists works, but we are moving into buffet territory!
Why? Well As a prelude to an 'endpaper' challenge by Monty Lee, which you can all participate in from the 2nd - 8th September on Instagram
The prompts for this challenge are looser than usual to allow for more choice:
Prompt 1: A cooking book for kids
Prompt 2: A book about gnomes
Prompt 3: Choose a fairytale
Prompt 4: A book about butterflies
Prompt 5: Choose a nursery rhyme (or more)
Prompt 6: A book about the sea
Prompt 7: Art and craft for kids
Endpapers are often the first magical page you open on a picture book, be it a blast of colour or delicious snippets of information; maps, tracks and ideas.
These pages begin to fire your enthusiasm and joy in a book and for the illustrator they are the fun bit, often the part they turn their attention to in relief once the body of the book has been completed.
Are they the books clothes, underwear, costume? well yes they are! They can be modest or gloriously exuberant and wild.
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