Book Illustrated

March/April 2010 Newsletter

Gallery/Showroom
promoting Original
Illustrations and Limited
Edition Prints from
Australian Children’s Books

Open by appointment
300 Beaconsfield Pde
Middle Park 3206 Victoria
(03) 9534 7751
info@booksillustrated.com.au
www.booksillustrated.com.au

Book Promotion

Peeking Ducks at
Federation Square

Peeking Ducks is written by Krista Bell, illustrated by Sally Rippin and published by Windy Hollow Books.

Help us celebrate this beautiful new picture book at our stand at the Federation Square Book Market on Saturday 6 March from 11 am to 5 pm.

You can meet Krista Bell and watch illustrator, Sally Rippin at work from 1 to 3 pm.

Books for signing will be on sale.

Peeking Ducks at Gasworks

Beautifully fresh and charmingly chinesey, Sally Rippin’s illustrations for Peeking Ducks will be on exhibit at Gasworks Arts Park in the Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery from 22 March to 11 April.

Both Sally (painting) and Krista (writing) will be doing workshops in the Gasworks Holiday program.

www.gasworks.org.au

Exhibitions

We have curated a number of exhibitions that tour to Regional galleries.

running with horses

mr chicken

Mr Chicken in 3D - a sculpture by Leigh Hobbs

The first for 2010 will be Running with Horses, an exhibition of the work from Alison Lester’s latest picture book, which will be shown at Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre in Fremantle W.A. from April to June.

Other venues this year will include Albury Museum Library in NSW, The Goldfields Gallery (Maryborough, Vic),
The Power House Museum in Brisbane,
Qld, Walker St Gallery and the Academy of Design in Melbourne, Vic.

Our Extraordinary Book Sale continues

book sale

Our extensive range of international picture books has been categorized into the six International Baccalaureate PYP Transdisciplinary themes – which also translate easily into the VELS learning domains.

Make an appointment to visit and see the books - or visit our website BOOKS section for a downloadable pdf of the complete list of titles.

Discount sales up
to 40% (based on order size).

Bologna - forward ho

In March, Books Illustrated takes an exhibition of 30 new limited edition giclee prints of illustrations by Australian illustrators to the Bologna Book Fair in Italy. The exhibition includes a display of 50 picture books and promotes new and classic titles being focused on by our publishers this year.This project is a collaboration with the Australian Publishers Association and has been funded by The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)’s Cultural Fund.

On our way home we will be visiting the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Federation Square Book Market

During 2010 Books Illustrated will attend the Federation Square Book Market on the second Saturday of each month.

See an illustrator at work on the big screen in the Atrium as well as a range of quality children’s books and Limited Edition Prints.

You can catch us there on March the 6th and on April the 24th!

Books Illustrated Showroom

Limited edition prints, original illustrations and books (many signed) can be viewed and purchased by making an appointment to visit our showroom.

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