Book By Its Cover » Brian Wildsmith’s Circus

3.16.10

Brian Wildsmith

I saw pictures of this book on one of my favorite blogs Pikaland and quickly knew I needed to track down a copy, which wasn’t too difficult. It’s copyright date is 1970 and it’s full of beautiful, full-spread illustrations of the circus. I have a weak spot for circus themed artwork because it always has tons of color, patterns, costuming and animals. These illustrations have all that created with a very painterly look of loose brush strokes and what looks like crayon resist. The texture is incredible. You can find this book online on ebay or used book shops. I think I paid a whole two bucks for mine- plus shipping.

14 Comments

03/16/10 10:04am

Monique wrote

Aah I saw that one on Pikaland too! :)
Really like it

03/16/10 10:26am

Amy@Pikaland wrote

Ah! I was looking for the book too, and I didn’t think to search ebay! Thanks for the tip Julia!

03/16/10 12:24pm

allie wrote

All of his children’s books are wonderfully illustrated and based aroun simple concepts – a preschool teacher’s dream!

03/16/10 2:53pm

Janet wrote

This reminds me of lots of my childhood books. So pretty.

03/16/10 9:20pm

beyond wrote

oh! my cousins had this wonderful book. i remember it vividly from my childhood. thanks for the memories…

03/17/10 6:29pm

António Caló wrote

All the books he illustrated are wounderfull…and whene I say all I mean ALL.

03/23/10 4:41pm

Sam wrote

Oh my!!! These are so wonderful! I’m going to google him!

03/24/10 10:12am

Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves wrote

I love Brian Wildsmith…. such wonderful colors and textures.

03/24/10 12:14pm

Gilly wrote

Brian Wildsmith’s illustrations are just wonderful. I wonder if kids enjoy them as much as we do though?

03/25/10 2:53am

John Broadley wrote

His illustrations for the bible are fantastic too: “The Bible Story” Philip Turner (OUP 1968)

03/28/10 5:27am

Sam Usher wrote

One of my very fav illustrators. Check out another one of his – Jungle Party.

04/2/10 12:47am

misha lulu wrote

Fabulous Book! The illustrations are super!

04/9/10 8:41pm

hmstrjam wrote

I’m so glad you found this book! I blogged about it on Pikaland!

10/14/10 9:37am

Jill Casey wrote

Brian Wildsmith is great. Did you know that there is a museum in Japan devoted to his work? I featured another one of his books, The Owl and the Woodpecker, on my blog. Check it out.

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