If you were creating a world of your own, what would it look like? Would you build your house out of brick or out of jelly? Would it be on the ground or in a tree? Would your shops sell envelopes and sweets or shoes for superheroes? Would you ride a train to town, or a dinosaur?Taking the reader on an extraordinary visual journey through her imaginative world, award-winning illustrator, Laura Carlin, inspires children to look, draw and make first from life, and then from the imagination through sharing her own personal thought-processes and drawing techniques.Using the narrative of a day from getting up in the morning, to going to bed at night Laura shows children how sherecords every day things and events on paper, and then improves them through her wild and witty imagination helping children form a visual manifesto of their own world, and enthusing them to find enjoyment and entertainment in drawing and creating with the most everyday objects.

 

 

There are 48 pages in this book.

This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+).

This book was published in 2014 by Phaidon Press Ltd .

Laura Carlin is an illustrator and ceramics artist based in London. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, her illustrated edition of Ted Hughes' The Iron Man won the V&A Book Illustration Award in 2011. Her clients include The New York Times, The House of Illustration, Vogue magazine, The Guardian, and The Financial Times among others.