**grin** If you want to borrow 'em, let me know; they're battered but very well-loved. One of my favorite bits is how perfectly Oakley drew the plants-- I *lived* in Europe, and damn but the man got 'em right. You could use some of his more detailed spreads for botanical illos!
The Green Knowe books are strange, almost spiritual books while at the same time being very good fantasy/adventure stories; they're centered around an old stone house that dates back to the Norman Conquest and that has a peculiar way of ignoring little things like time, death, etc.-- Elizabethan children (ghosts and/or time-traveling) play with modern kids and so forth. A really lovely bit in the first book has the sounds of a child being sung to sleep five hundred years past clearly audible to a little boy, also being soothed. They're gorgeous books, and I still read them now and then.
Graeme Base came along a bit late for me; I loved his Animalia, though. Lessee... I remember being totally in love with a book called The Ghost Of Opalina, which is now a horrendously-expensive collector's item. And, oh yeah, all the Prydain books by Lloyd Alexander. ^__^
Maybe someday I'll try writing kid's books; I'd love to do that.
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Date: 2009-04-09 10:15 pm (UTC)The Green Knowe books are strange, almost spiritual books while at the same time being very good fantasy/adventure stories; they're centered around an old stone house that dates back to the Norman Conquest and that has a peculiar way of ignoring little things like time, death, etc.-- Elizabethan children (ghosts and/or time-traveling) play with modern kids and so forth. A really lovely bit in the first book has the sounds of a child being sung to sleep five hundred years past clearly audible to a little boy, also being soothed. They're gorgeous books, and I still read them now and then.
Graeme Base came along a bit late for me; I loved his Animalia, though. Lessee... I remember being totally in love with a book called The Ghost Of Opalina, which is now a horrendously-expensive collector's item. And, oh yeah, all the Prydain books by Lloyd Alexander. ^__^
Maybe someday I'll try writing kid's books; I'd love to do that.