Books Illustrated at coming FESTIVALS

Clunes Book Town Festival

Saturday May 4 & Sunday May 5

For the love of Books!
A weekend of rare, new, secondhand & collectable books, writers talks, street entertainment, food, wine, live music & Children’s Book Town.

There's a fabulous program for adults and children over both days again this year and the weather forecast is good! This lovely historic Victorian town has been brought to life with this festival and it's growing every year. Last year Clunes Book Town was accepted into the International Organisation of Book Towns and two visitors from this organisation, Mr Lee, Sang representing South Korea and Mr Jan Klovstad from Sweden, have traveled to Australia to participate in the festival.
 
Come and see our range of prints and picture books at our Books Illustrated stand in the Union Bank & Art Studio building in the main street.

Demonstrations and book signings by illustrators will be ongoing on both days. You can meet Ann James on Saturday & Sunday and Judy Watson on Sunday between 12.30pm and 2pm.

Ann James will be showing her two new picture books I’m a Dirty Dinosaur, written by Janeen Brian, published by Penguin Books and Bird & Bear, published by The Five Mile Press.
Judy is the illustrator of Goodnight, Mice!, written by Frances Watts and published by ABC Books.  Goodnight Mice! Was the winner of the winner of the award for Children’s fiction in the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. 

Woodend Winter Arts Festival 

 Advance notice! June -7 to 10 our exhibition of prints and original illustrations Woodend it be Fabulous will be shown as part of the Woodend Winter Arts Festival. The feature artists for this festival will be Jane Tanner and Ann James. On Sunday 9 at 12.30 to 1.30 we will run a session Woodend it be fabulous to be an illustrator! for budding or would-be illustrators. It’s a wide ranging program of arts and the program is now out, so book early! 

Books Illustrated at Paju Book City

September Exhibition - Books Illustrated in Korea  

• Paju Book City Booksori Festival

Books Illustrated has been invited to present an exhibition of Australian Children’s Book Illustration at the inaugural Booksori Festival which will run from Sept 16 to 23.  The festival is the largest Book Festival in Asia and is being developed as a mecca for the international publishing Industry.

 

The heart of the exhibition is a series of promotional prints curated for the Bologna Book Fair this year. It will be augmented with other sections promoting Australian Literature including Shaun Tan’s The Lost Thing DVD and a promotion of the inaugural Australian Children’s Laureate position held jointly by Alison Lester and Boori Monty Prior. As well as events with publishers we will be running illustration workshops with visiting children.

Paju Book City is an amazing concept in itself –‘A place where people, books and culture are in harmony’. It is a specially designed city focussing on books. To celebrate producing books, in 2011 the city started creating bookstores with libraries, exhibition spaces and book cafes in publishing houses under the name of Check Bang Geo Ri (Street of Bookstores). As a result, 42 bookstores have been opened and the city has become a member of the IOB (International Organization of Booktowns). We are excited that representatives from Australia's own booktown, Clunes, will also be at the festival. 

We look forward to being part of this festival and sharing it with you soon!

Ann James at last year's opening ceremony.

Books Illustrated at Clunes Booktown Festival

May 5-6

Do visit us at our stand at this wonderful event

• Ann James will be demonstrating at the Books Illustrated Stand and there will be lots of lovely prints and picture books for sale!
• The biggest collection of books on sale in the southern hemisphere with 60 booksellers
• Talks by Geoffrey Blainey, Tim Fisher, Alice Pung, Peter Goldsworthy, Nicholas Jose, Anna Goldsworthy, Gina Perry and more
• Workshops on book reviewing, publishing, poetry writing, book collecting, writing science
• Children's Booktown with visiting authors Hazel Edwards and John Nicholson
• Selections from the State Library of Victoria's rare and precious book collection on show
• Street entertainment, live music, food, wine…fantastic atmosphere

Admission to entire program by Booktown badge $5, $2 concession and children.

To find out more visit the Clunes Booktown Festival website. 

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Our exhibition at Clunes 2011

News from Clunes Back to Booktown

We had an excellent time at this year's Clunes Back to Booktown weekend festival (May 14 and 15) and thought we'd share a few fun photographs from the day!
Back to Booktown is a held at Clunes each year around this time. It spans one weekend and every nook and cranny in this fascinating historic goldmining town is filled with books - mostly old, many rare, all waiting for a new home and collectors, browsers and book lovers of all ages have a delicious time on the hunt. Some travelled up by stream-train from Melbourne this year!   It was great weather (better than in Melbourne) and a lovely bustling atmosphere with a fabulous crowd.  There are visiting author talks (including Blanche & Bob this year!), Punch & Judy (no, not Blanche & Bob), an interesting range of good food, the school big band, and booky activities for kids too.  It'll be on again around the same time next year - and we'll be there - come and say hi!

Visitors enjoying the exhibition of prints & picture books

Two very enthusiastic customers, with our display in the background

A ballerina illustration that Ann J painted for a lovely young customer.

Nick and Dot enjoying Autumn in Clunes during a break from bookselling

Back to Booktown 2011 - how are you getting to this book-lovers heaven?

Heritage Express train to Clunes Booktown
(image c/o Seymour Railway Heritage website).

We hope to see you all at Clunes Booktown Festival on Saturday 14 - Sunday 15th of May, and if you haven't worked out how to get there yet ...

On Saturday 14th May catch the Clunes Booktown Express, a heritage train from Melbourne, destination Clunes Booktown, where thousands of rare second-hand and collectable books are on sale.

The weekend includes free Writers' Talks , street theatre, the Australia Fair Grand Concert Street Organ, wine, food and live music.

Books Illustrated's stand - with a wide variety of books and limited edition prints on offer - will be part of a special Children's Booktown including book whispering from La trobe University, the magic of paper marbling, story telling, artists' demonstrations and hay bales to climb.

Event details
Dates: 14 -15 May 2011
Venue: Clunes Booktown - Clunes was the site of Victoria's first gold strike and is located in a hidden valley surrounded by rounded hills, situated 30 km north of Ballarat.