100 Years of Children's Book Week Posters
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100 Years of Children's Book Week Posters by Leonard S Marcus
Celebrate a century of children's book illustration!For families, art lovers, and history buffs alike, Leonard S. Marcus's visual history tour of 100 years of children's book illustration gathers in one glorious volume the posters of the annual Children's Book Week!
Featuring work from early luminaries such as N. C. Wyeth and Marcia Brown to more contemporary illustrators like David Wiesner, Mary GrandPre, Christian Robinson, and Jillian Tamaki, this beautiful collection showcases the conceptual and iconic images that have defined children's books for generations of young readers.
While the posters within these pages are linked in their resounding advocacy for young people's literacy, they are distinguished by the styles and mediums of their creators and by the historical, social, and cultural influences of their times. Renowned historian Leonard S. Marcus traces these developments in the children's book field with incisive descriptions to accompany each poster.
Children's Book Week has grown over the past one hundred years from a modest grassroots effort to a full-throttle nationwide annual celebration of literacy and the pleasures of reading. The posters in this book beautifully emphasize Book Week's mission, with slogans such as "Build the Future with Books," "Get Lost in a Book," and "One World, Many Stories."
Leonard S. Marcus is a well-known and diverse writer, historian, and critic in the children's book sector, as well as a contributor and editor for a number of periodicals. Leonard was just named literary director of the Kennedy Center's Night Kitchen Radio Theater in Washington, D.C. C.He graduated from Yale University with a degree in history and the University of Iowa Graduate Writers' Workshop with a degree in poetry. He and his wife, picture-book artist Amy Schwartz, live in Brooklyn, New York, with their son Jacob.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780525645085 |
| ISBN 10 | 052564508X |
| Title | 100 Years of Children's Book Week Posters |
| Author | Leonard S Marcus |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Year published | 2019-03-05 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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