Anna Walker at Fed Square Saturday 13 October

Meet Anna Walker at Books Illustrated's Stand, Fed Square Book Market
Saturday October 13, between 2pm & 5pm

This month Books Illustrated will be at Federation Square on: 
• October 13 - Meet Anna Walker and celebrate the release of her two new picture books Peggy, published by Scholastic and Today We Have No Plans, written by Jane Godwin and published by Penguin.
  Watch Anna illustrate and have a book personally signed!

The Federation Square Book Market runs each Saturday from 10am to 5pm. Books Illustrated attends on one Saturday a month - usually the second Saturday of the month when we feature a new book or an illustrator demonstrating on the Atrium screen. 

Current Illustration Exhibitions

Don't miss the last days of this exhibition of contemporary book illustration - closes October 7! The exhibition, curated by Customs House Gallery is showing at Blarney Books, 37 James St in lovely Port Fairy -  a great day trip for the school holidays! Open Thursday to Sunday 11am to 4pm.

     

Illustrations by - Sarah Davis, Sue deGennaro, Walter Di Qual, Leigh Hobbs, Chris McKimmie, Andrew McLean, David

Miller, Cat Rabbit & Isobelle Knowles, Sonnia martinez, Lucia Masciullo, Craig Smith, Shaun Tan, Anna walker and Bruce Whatley. Art by Chris McKimmie from Alex and the Watermelon Boat published by Allen & Unwin.

At Home with Bob Graham

We enjoyed an 'At Home' at Books Illustrated Showroom with Bob Graham on Sunday September 30, with visitors calling in to meet Bob and offer congratulations on A Bus Called Heaven winning the Picture Book of the Year Award in this year's CBCA Awards.

Audrey of the Outback in Paju Book City, Korea

Christine Harris and Ann James' delightful character Audrey of the Outback was ready to greet Books Illustrated when they arrived in Paju Book City...

Illustration from 'It's a Miroocool!' 

Gus Gordon's book launch

Unfortunately we can't make it but we thought you might like to go to the launch of Gus Gordon's fabulous new picture book...

To find out more about Herman and Rosie visit Gus' blog here. 

The launch of 'The Wattle Tree' at the Royal Botanical Gardens Shop

Visit the Royal Botanical Gardens shop Sunday September 16th for the launch of this charming new picture book The Wattle Tree written by John Bell and illustrated by Ben Wood.

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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.