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First up is and this spread from The Knight Who Wouldn’t Fight by . Amazing use of light and loads of little details to look at. Plus, all the characters are reading!

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A quartet of Quentin Blake illustrations of the appallingly-behaved Badfort crowd from JP Martin's Uncle books. I found these pictures fabulously funny and anarchic when I was seven, and I still do.

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First Barbara Jones was from adult me. Second illustration for is by Kathleen Hale, whose books I loved as a child and are probably what made me receptive to Ravilious and Bawden in later life.

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It's A wonderful place to see picture book art run by .

In celebration, here is a favourite of mine- 'My cat likes to hide in boxes' by Eve Sutton, illustrated with charm and character by Lynley Dodd.

🐱📦

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Lizbeth Zwerger is my third my great illustration hero.
Her exceptional drawing skill combined with a light touch in her use of watercolour to produce magical art like this from "The Swineherd” by HC Andersen.

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A few pics to mark all rich in the sort of detail that fired my young imagination, from: Ant and Bee Go Shopping (Angela Banner); The Saga of Noggin the Nog (Peter Firmin); The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (W Heath Robinson).

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And finally the FIRST book I ever remember from childhood. The immortal ‘Winnie The Pooh’ by A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepherd. And please indulge me with my favourite illustration from my own, unpublished as yet, book ‘Peedie Pointy Dog’ 😉😁#BookIllustrationOfTheDayBirthday2

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Then the books that made me cry.. there’s a breathtaking moment in Shaun Tan’s ‘Eric’ that was one of the most beautiful pages I’ve ever seen..

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Another fave illustrator of mine is Janet Ahlberg.
This pic from Each Peach Pear Plum

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Congratulations to for the 2nd birthday of !! I have a lot of favourites so I hope it’s ok ☺️. Here are my favourites from James’ own fabulous oeuvre : ‘Koshka’s Tales’, ‘A Very Special Mouse and Mole’ and ‘Gaspard the Fox’. FABULOUS!

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. ‘s daily posts of Book Illustrations are one of the highlights of Twitter. To celebrate its anniversary, here are three blasts from the past from my collection by Michael Foreman, Tomi Ungerer, Quentin Blake and David McKee.

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Sandra Speidel, gorgeous chalk pastels from Fixing The Crack of Dawn

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It's and to start here are some pages from Planes, Trains, Cars and Boats by Lionel and Muriel Kalish, 1963

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So many have already chosen favourites of mine! Well here’s and an illustration from Orlando’s Invisible Pyjamas especially for those enjoying a sprinkling of snow...#BookIllustrationOfTheDayBirthday

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I love - The Bear and the Piano- this illustration specifically for the gorgeous light and emotion in it. (And I just love trees in general)

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Who doesn't secretly want to go rumpeta, rumpeta, rumpeta, all down the road, astride an elephant? Remembering to say please, of course

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