A world of illustration
Celebrating illustrated children's books from around the world
'A love and feel for place': Australian illustrated children's books – in pictures
The new Australian children’s laureate Leigh Hobbs takes us on a fascinating tour of the best in Australian illustration, from the heartbreaking Shaun Tan to explorations of Indigenous dreamtime and back to his very own and very yellow Mr Chicken’s crazed love affair with London
Disability inclusive books that should be available in English – in pictures
This gallery showcases some of the wonderful diverse books about loads of different kinds of disabilities being published in other countries. We would love to see them on our bookshelves and hope we’ll be able to do that one day
The Little Black Fish and other stories: Iranian illustrated children's books – in pictures
David Almond introduces a gallery that opens doors into the stunning illustrated children’s books coming out of Iran including The Little Black Fish, a book that is beloved in Iran and now published in the UK for the first time
The best British children's illustrators in the Bratislava awards – in pictures
Illustrator Piet Grobler introduces the 15 artists which have been chosen to represent the UK in one of the most famous children’s books illustration awards in the world: the Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (or BIB for short) 2015. The UK have won only once, in 1995