May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust Fellowship
I'm very proud and honoured to announce that I have been awarded a Creative Time Residential Fellowship by the May Gibbs Children's Literat...
In Honour of May Gibbs
Gibbs, May (1877 - 1969)(born 17 January 1877, died on 27 November 1969) Artist and author, the daughter of H. W. Gibbs of Perth, WA, and Surrey, England. She was about four when she arrived in...
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Art by May Gibbs (1918) from the book SNUGGLEPOT & CUDDLEPIE.
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May Gibbs; artist: images of Snugglepot, Cuddlepie, Little Lobelia, Ragged Blossom eucalyptus gumnut babies
I went out for a walk by the sea, and sat on a bollard to think. Silent, but for the clink of a boat. Still water. Many gum trees in full blossom. In Australia, we believe very small people called Gum Nut Babies live in gum nuts. They also wear little skirts made of eucalyptus flowers. They wear adorable little fluffy hats.
Book plates – Novel Lines
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Aussie illustration
Children in a Tree, Ethel Spowers, 1927 The beginning of the 20th century is considered the Golden Age of book illustration in America and England. The Australian artists of that time are not as well known, although rare pictures from old children's books sometimes show up on blogs like The Pictorial Arts, A Study in Contrasts, Australian Fairy Artists and BiblioOdyssey. It's an intriguing look at a different place and time. This is a hodgepodge of Aussie fantasy work and illustration from…
May Gibbs – Revolting Woman
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