Synopses & Reviews
A beautiful picture book for children 4+ taking the reader on a journey through Laura Carlin’s own colorful and imaginative visual world.
Review
"To the parent of a slow‐reading 9‐year‐old: Be patient. She will probably learn to read faster (or become an artist) if you give her a copy of A World of Your Own by Laura Carlin." – Washington Post
Synopsis
If you were creating a world of your own, what would it look like? Would you build your house out of brick - or out of jelly? Would it be on the ground or in a tree? Would your shops sell envelopes and sweets - or shoes for superheroes? Would you ride a train to town, or a dinosaur?
Taking the reader on an extraordinary visual journey through her imaginative world, award-winning illustrator, Laura Carlin, inspires children to look, draw and make - first from life, and then from the imagination through sharing her own personal thought-processes and drawing techniques.
Using the narrative of a day - from getting up in the morning, to going to bed at night - Laura shows children how she records every day things and events on paper, and then improves them through her wild and witty imagination - helping children form a visual manifesto of their own world, and enthusing them to find enjoyment and entertainment in drawing and creating with the most everyday objects.
About the Author
Laura Carlin studied at the Royal College of Art, and won several awards including the Quentin Blake Award two years running, and the National Magazine Award. A prolific drawer and painter, she also works on ceramics. As a commercial illustrator, Laura’s work has featured in publications such as Vogue, The New Scientist, The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph and The Independent. She has illustrated several children’s books and has been the winner of the Victoria and Albert Museum Illustration Award as well as receiving an honorable mention in the Bologna Ragazzi Award Fiction category.