The Wind in the Willows

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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). 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." Card Friends Picnic, Wind in the Willows. Book by Kenneth Grahame. Watercolour. Original artwork, A6, sustainable paper

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Here 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.] Ms. Moore works eclectically, through a multi-layered approach, using graphite and coloured pencils, Indian ink, watercolour and even oil paints.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 💜

The Wind in the Willows: Grahame, Kenneth, Inga Moore

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. 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] 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." Ratty and Mole Unframed A4 Art Print | Wind in the Willows | Messing About in Boats | Book lover gift | Home Decor | Nursery Decor Merrily On Our Way to Nowhere At All Shirt, Disneyland T-shirt, The Merrily Song Shirt, Mr. Toad Shirt, Mr.Toad Wide Ride Shirt E0235Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown 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 Silk Garden scarf, gardener's scarf, Secret Garden scarf, Inga Moore Scarf, Scarf for gardener's, gift for garden lover, silk garden scarf

The Wind in the Willows: Grahame, Kenneth, Moore, Inga

In a beautiful single volume, Inga Moore’s magical illustrations bring Kenneth Grahame’s much-loved classic to life for a new generation of readers. This natural empathy is the key to her anthropomorphic wizardry. Like Beatrix Potter, she has an easy understanding of anatomy which allows her to give the animals human characteristics (and clothes) without sentimentalising or ridiculing them (except for Toad who, although always sensitively drawn, is never knowingly underplayed). Eloquent in stance and gesture, the animals express themselves physically as well as they do verbally. 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. She is somewhat –or, in fact, very– reclusive, and as far as I know she does not have an official web presence. Of course others have posted her work, but not at all as much and as thoroughly as it deserves, with high resolution scans of the illustrations.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Moore, Inga (illustrator). 1st edition US. 1st ptg., 4to, illustrated boards, Highlights of the first five chapters from the book adapted by Inga Moore and lavishly illustrated with her soft color paintings. As new. Fine in fine, unclipped dj. 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. Inga Moore loves the English countryside landscape and, out of this love, she has developed a charming, truly beautiful style, richly detailed and textural –amidst the current trends toward minimalistic or even abstract children’s book illustration–; and brought it to great achievements, like her work for Grahame’s “The Wind in the Willows” or, more recently, for Frances Hodgson Burnett’s“The Secret Garden”. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-12-10 07:30:12 Associated-names Moore, Inga, 1945-; Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932. Wind in the willows Boxid IA1999415 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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She has an unusual ability to change her style to suit her feelings about each book. "It's useful, yes," she says, adding ruefully, "but I can't help thinking that's rather a serious fault." 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] 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…) Wind in the Willows Print - Childrens Room Decor - Nursery Art - Map Decor - Wall Art Gifts for Children #vi224

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]