{"id":333,"date":"2009-01-13T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T03:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/review-of-artist-to-artist\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T18:00:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T22:00:41","slug":"review-of-artist-to-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Review of Artist to Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image346\" height=\"239\" alt=\"artist_to_artist.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/artist_to_artist.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Artist to Artist<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Philomel Books, New York, 2007.\u00a0 105 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Starred Review.<\/p>\n<p>Review written\u00a0January 30, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The title of this book explains the content, but doesn\u2019t grasp the beauty.\u00a0 In <em>Artist to Artist,<\/em> 23 geniuses of picture book illustration, such as Eric Carle, Maurice Sendak, Chris Van Allsburg, Steven Kellogg, Rosemary Wells, Jerry Pinkney, and so many more, speak to aspiring artists about how they became an artist and what inspires them.<\/p>\n<p>Each artist includes a self-portrait, a picture of themselves as a child, examples of early art, published art, and a look at the process of creating art, as well as a picture of their studios.\u00a0 (I love the mess in Eric Carle\u2019s\u2014If you think about it, you\u2019d realize that someone who deals with cut paper illustrations would have a mess of scraps on the floor.)\u00a0 My favorite self-portrait is the one created by pop-up artists Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart\u2014an amazingly intricate robot reaches out to embrace the reader, with the two happy artists inside the robot at the controls.\u00a0 I found myself popping it out again and again.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful and inspiring, this is wonderful reading for someone like me\u2014an adult with no artistic aspirations.\u00a0 I can only imagine how much it could be enjoyed by someone in its intended audience\u2014a budding artist ready to strive for greatness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0399246002\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/artist_to_artist.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/artist_to_artist.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist to Artist 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art Philomel Books, New York, 2007.\u00a0 105 pages. Starred Review. Review written\u00a0January 30, 2008. The title of this book explains the content, but doesn\u2019t grasp the beauty.\u00a0 In Artist to Artist, 23 geniuses of picture book illustration, such as Eric Carle, Maurice Sendak, Chris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11,29,31,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-creativity","category-stand-outs","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}