The Art of Graeme Base

About this book

With the eye of a Renaissance painter and the ear of Dr. Seuss Aussie Graeme Base is not your basic childrens book author. People This unique book lavishly illustrated with original art and offering never before seen photographs and art is an evocative look at the life and work of beloved and bestselling author and artist Graeme Base the creator of the childrens classics Animalia and The Eleventh Hour as well as recent bestsellers The Water Hole Jungle Drums and Unos Garden. This book goes beyond his childrens book legacy to offer a candid peek into the mind of a creative genius. Beginning with Bases own storybook childhood in England we see how his imagination was fed by his familys love of music literature and nature; and how his talent was enriched by travel teachers friends and his wife and their three children. From Bases earliest drawings pop-up cards and homemade board games through his years as a teenager and rock musician and through a quarter-century of published books we learn about the artists musicians writers and humorists who inspired him and witness the working of one artists extraordinary mind.