Today's Highlight at the IYL / Descubrimiento del día en la IYL: Under the Spell of the Moon

Today’s Highlight at the Internationale Jugendbibliothek: illustrators from all over the world put images to their favorite poems. The result: a real Who's Who of illustrators now a day.

Descubrimiento del día en la IYL: ilustradores de todo el mundo ponen imágenes a su poema favorito. El resultado: un verdadero elenco de ilustradores actuales.

Aldana, Patricia (ed.)
Paterson, Katherine (foreword)
Dragland, Stan (transl.)

Under the spell of the moon : art for children from the world’s great illustrators 

Toronto [et al.] : Douglas & McIntyre, 2004. – 80 p.
(A Groundwood book)
ISBN 0-88899-559-8

Illustration – Children’s poetry – Multiculturality – Anthology

The idea behind this gorgeous anthology was to offer children a colourful selection of works by the best children’s book illustrators from all over the world and thus celebrate high quality international writing and illustration for children. Ranging from Mitsumsa Anno, Quentin Blake, Marie-Louise Gay, and Dušan Kállay to Peter Sís and Lisbeth Zwerger, each of the award-winning artists featuring in this collection chose a short text, poem, children’s verse, riddle, counting-out rhyme, etc. and illustrated this text on a double page. Texts are printed in the original language of the culture they come from and in an English translation. Part of the proceeds from this book will be donated to the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), the organisation that – founded by Jella Lepman more than 50 years ago – is striving to fulfil its founder’s greatest dream of creating peace and under¬standing between people of different cultures through the best of children’s books. (4+)

(From the White Ravens List 2005)