I duplicate the original post with only minor corrections in the text and some tags added]: [Pala late –Ari: mrni jagorri– , kai kamlas “E Balval ande le Selchinde”… Me xalem lako ilo!] I entirely agree (well, perhaps it’s not criminal, because I do love freedom of expression and everything else 🙂 , but truly unsatisfactory). She draws animals with a confidence born of empathy. "If I want to draw a buzzard," she explains, "I just imagine myself up there, and I can feel myself flying. I simply put myself in the body of whatever creature I'm trying to draw – I used to think everyone did that." I have tortuous memories of trying to read this eons ago, but now I want to get a copy *just* for the illustrations! They’re – wow…. not the horrible, heavy, and depressing things that were in my copy. A thousand kissies to you!

The Wind in the Willows (Walker Illustrated Classics)

Can't remember the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth Born in Sussex but brought up in Australia from the age of eight, Moore feels a powerful attachment to the English countryside. Her school in ­Adelaide had an impressive library where all the children's books (mostly British) were uniformly leather bound. At 14 her favourite was Boswell's account of Dr Johnson's travels in the Hebrides. Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9173 Ocr_module_version 0.0.6 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19874 Openlibrary_edition Ms. Moore works eclectically, through a multi-layered approach, using graphite and coloured pencils, Indian ink, watercolour and even oil paints.Gradually she was seduced by the idea. She'd read the book first as a teenager in Australia, and loved it for its celebration of kindness and companionship. She was intrigued by the idea of illustrating – and abridging – it, and making it accessible to a younger readership. But above all, it was the very "Englishness" of it that appealed. And the countryside: "I felt I could go a little further than Shepard, and show more of that whole world the characters inhabit." After The Wind in the Willows it made sense to use the same location for another classic – Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel The Secret Garden. I was spellbound by this book as a child, and always lingered over Charles Robinson's colour plates. Looking at that old book now I'm astonished to see that it had only nine illustrations. Moore has provided more than 100. For each spread she photocopies her original drawings, then works on them with a mixture of pencil, ink, watercolour, crayon, pastel, even oil paint – "anything that works". With intricate textural variations and masses of engrossing detail, she achieves a realism that is unusual today, and those warm, underground kitchens have never been more invitingly portrayed. Landscape painting holds a particular fascination for Moore, and she has reproductions of impressionist paintings pinned up all over the place. "I'm hoping some of the genius will rub off on me." Another turning point was Raymond Briggs's book Father Christmas (1973). "It was uplifting, life-enhancing, and I realised that making a picture book was one of the finest things one could aspire to." She got started as an illustrator and in the early 80s, inspired by childhood memories, returned to England. Mr Toad's Taxi Service, Mr Toad's Wild Ride Shirt, Ichabod And Mr Toad Shirt, Disneyland Shirt, Disney Shirts, Disney T Shirt, Disney Tshirt

The Wind in the Willows (Candlewick Illustrated Classics)

Like most classics from pre-television years, The Wind in the Willows can be daunting for many children, but Moore's pictures generously ­illuminate that forest of words at every opening. For many illustrators today "less is more", but she is no minimalist and her illustrations are "wall to wall". With its wit, charm and finesse, and its atmospheric use of colour, her work rewards endless exploration. But when her flat was repossessed, she decided to leave London, and found a rambling, upstairs apartment in a crumbling Palladian pile in rural Gloucestershire. And that's where we meet, buzzards wheeling overhead as Moore shows me round. "I knew immediately that with this position, the quality of the light in the studio and the abundance of wildlife, it was the perfect place to live and work on The Wind in the Willows," she says. "I could never have done it in London."

These are so delicate Lixie, thanks for sharing them with us. It fascinates me that she doesn’t have a web presence, though it fits with her old world charm. I believe there is room for the beautiful older illustrations (have you ever encountered JRR Tolkien’s “Father Christmas Letters?), but I also delight in diverse interpretations. I have a collection of about a dozen Alice in Wonderland’s. Secret Garden Scarf, Garden scarf, English garden scarf, gift for garden lover, gardener scarf, Inga Moore scarf, silk scarf with gardens a b c d e Joanna Carey, “Inga Moore, illustrator of The Wind in the Willows”, in The Guardian dated 5 February 2010 Keep collections to yourself or inspire other shoppers! Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places.

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Card Friends Picnic, Wind in the Willows. Book by Kenneth Grahame. Watercolour. Original artwork, A6, sustainable paper When I read it again, two decades later –perhaps, trying to reproduce the same sensations I had at fifteen years-old–, I already knew the illustrations by Inga Moore and, contemplating them, I though “This is it. This story “looks” like this, and not in any other way.” (Which is of course objectionable, but also very valid; and, frankly speaking, I must say that I love the illustrations as much as the tale itself –and I do love it a lot–. So here lays the secret, as in every creative endeavour…) Merrily On Our Way to Nowhere At All Shirt, Disneyland T-shirt, The Merrily Song Shirt, Mr. Toad Shirt, Mr.Toad Wide Ride Shirt E0235 Wind in the Willows Print - Nursery Decor Books - Childrens Books - Wall Art Kids Gifts for Children #vi225Here you are twelve of them, belonging to the first three chapters (and the cover) of K. Grahame’s wonderful novel: Published in October the 9th, 2016, this first post of mine on this great artist had zero likes (the one by my sister was of course put by me, since she had passed away a couple of months before) and very few visits (Very few!). So I think it is time to give it another chance to be watched and –I’m sure of it– appreciated by some of my followers.] Truly lovely illustrations. When you said ‘the story looks like this, and no other way’, I know just what you mean. It appalls me when the classic book illustrations are done over in modern re-issues, such as the Peter Rabbit series, or Alice in Wonderland… it’s practically criminal, so painful to even see. In the early 1980s, Moore returned to live in England, settling in Hampstead, while still working on picture books. Her Six-Dinner Sid (1990), an illustrated book for children about a cat, took six months to complete [2] and won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in the under-five category, [4] but during the recession of the early 1990s her flat was repossessed. This had a happy outcome, as Moore then found an apartment in a large but decaying Palladian house in a Gloucestershire village, with good light in a room she planned to use as a studio. Not far from the River Windrush, the countryside around the house inspired the illustrations for Moore’s edition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, which went on to sell more than a million copies. [2] Her editions of other children’s classics include Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden and Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost. [5]

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After leaving school, Moore took a variety of jobs. Raymond Briggs’s book Father Christmas (1973) inspired her to want to illustrate books, and she began to look for work as an illustrator. [2] An early work, Aktil’s Big Swim (1980), tells the story of a Dover mouse who decides to swim the English Channel, not understanding how wide it is. [3]Born in Sussex, England, at the age of eight Moore emigrated with her family to Australia, where she went to school in Adelaide. She has said that at the age of fourteen her favourite book was James Boswell’s The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. [2] This book by Tolkien is one of the few ones I’ve not read 🙂 (I have had it in my hands, but didn’t bought it), but I own a nice collection of ‘Hobbits’, ‘Silmarillions’ and ‘Lords of The Rings’… 🙂 and, also, like you, several ‘Alices’– *Kisses* – Lixie 💜