press: Candlewick Press
Author: Helen Oxenbury
Language: English
Size: 13.8 x 0.8 x 13.8 cm
binding: blackboard writing
Pages: 10
ISBN: nine trillion and seven hundred and eighty-one billion five hundred and sixty-four million twenty-five thousand four hundred and seventy
Helen Oxenburys brilliant board books have delighted a generation of babies. Now from the most widely loved of artists comes a reissue of a board book to help very young children explore their worlds. In I CAN, a baby creates his own wonders as he jumps and stretches and dances. Full of character and humor, this charming book forms a winsome introduction to creativity and movement.
Helen oxenbury is particularly good at using colored pencils, watercolors and opaque watercolors. Start with observing the children around you and understand the childrens original needs. Before creating, she will first figure out the interaction between the characters, observe from many aspects, and then capture the subtle differences in various postures and movements between the characters. For example, in the mid-1980s, in the popular design of paperboard childrens books for young children, which she led to prosperity, she was always used to deeply and carefully observe the daily behavior and expressions of young children at this age, and present them truly and vividly through the brush, bringing the growth portrayal picture full of life flavor to the readers.
At the same time, her works also contain a unique humor and simple enthusiasm. Whether childrens frowns and smiles or their every move are captured and refined into creative materials by Helen oxenbury, who is good at observation and vivid in painting. The creative concept of being close to life and taking care of children has achieved the unique style of childlike innocence, delicacy and affinity in his childrens books. In her works, children are not limited to the rigorous and boring norms of the adult world. They are exploring happily and interestingly at any time.
Now, if we talk about Helen oxenbury in the field of childrens books, it is very easy to think of John, the worlds childrens Book Creator, in addition to his husband who is equal to his fame and achievements Outside Birmingham. There is another wonderful thing worth mentioning, which is enough to make people give her generous praise for her extraordinary achievements in her childrens book career. Thats the candle bear she designed for walker books, a well-known British childrens book publishing house, more than 30 years ago. The candle light, which contains the essence of warmth, light, persistence, truth, boundless imagination and broad reading, has taken care of and lit up the growth world of many book lovers.
