Provides an excellent overview of picturebooks as art and storytelling medium.  Written by British authors it gives a more wide-ranging view of picturebooks from around the world.  Includes history, mediums and process used to create and publish picturebooks and how they fit into children's educational experiences.

"Renowned children’s literature authority Leonard S. Marcus speaks with their creators and others — twenty-one of the world’s most celebrated authors and illustrators
— and asks about their childhood, their inspiration, their determination, their mentors, their creative choices, and more. Amplifying these richly entertaining and thought-provoking conversations are eighty-eight full-color plates revealing each illustrator’s artistic process from sketch to near
-final artwork in fascinating, behind-the-scenes detail." --Random House, Inc.

Robert Subuda creates amazing picture book pop-up art.  The pictures are a surprise and delight to watch unfold.  The library does not collect his pop-up works because they are somewhat too fragile to circulate.  We do have this example in our non-circulating collection.  Subuda's works are well worth checking out.

Eerie and beautiful images are created with charcoal pencils in the story about boy chasing his dog through a forbidden topiary garden.  The drawings are black and white but draw the reader fully into the story.

Denise Fleming uses collage to create this fun rhyming book about things in the grass, but she also makes all of her own paper to create the collages displayed on the pages.  It is the art of starting from raw materials to finished pages and provides a rustic look to her images.

Mo Willems uses a combination of pencil, digital color and photo collage to create the illustrations he uses to tell the story about Trixie and her precious Knuffle Bunny.

John Lawrence creates his art by etching the pictures into vinyl plates, inking each color separately and then printing.  Woodcut block printing artwork has a long history and Lawrence follows in that tradition.  His work has a precision that can't really be created any other way.  The chick in the story making the animal sounds is also very cute.