Projects and Research
'The Twelve Dancing Princesses' published after 60 year wait
The Centre for Children's Book Studies' first published book is now available to buy from the Anglia Ruskin online store. This edition of The Twelve Dancing Princesses was designed and illustrated by Sheila Robinson in the late 1940s. It has never before been published and has lived in the Fry Art Gallery and Museum for a number of years since being donated by Robinson's daughter, the artist Chloë Cheese.The original book is in the form of a single completed, hand-made, hand-bound edition, created to the exact format of the Picture Puffin series devised by Noel Carrington, alternating between colour and black and white spreads. Brian Webb and his team at Webb & Webb Design have been assisting with the careful scanning and retouching of the book. Much of the work has involved correcting spelling and grammatical errors in the hand-rendered text as well as incorporating a wraparound dust jacket that shows examples of the preparatory drawings on the inside. The book includes a short afterword by Chloë Cheese and an essay by Professor Martin Salisbury.
Here is a preview of some of the pages of this exquisite book - please click to enlarge.
'Children's Picturebooks: The art of visual storytelling'
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We are pleased to announce that the new book by Professor Martin Salisbury and Morag Styles, Children's Picturebooks: The art of visual storytelling, was released in January 2012, published by Laurence King Publishing.
A successful launch event was held at Heffers Bookshop, Trinity Street, Cambridge on 25 January. The book can be purchased direct from the publishers, or from all good bookshops including Amazon, where it has been receiving excellent customer reviews.
Martin has also given an interview on the themes of the book to National Public Radio in the US.
A successful launch event was held at Heffers Bookshop, Trinity Street, Cambridge on 25 January. The book can be purchased direct from the publishers, or from all good bookshops including Amazon, where it has been receiving excellent customer reviews.
Martin has also given an interview on the themes of the book to National Public Radio in the US.
Working with Story of Picture Books from Korea
Having worked closely with the Korean children's publishing industry in recent years, Martin Salisbury has been contributing articles to the beautifully produced Story of Picture Books, a journal published by Sang Publisher of Paju Book City in Seoul. The journal is published twice yearly and, in the words of Yu mi Myung, an editor with Sang publishing and assistant at the CJ Picture Book Festival office:
"This journal was started with the purpose of introducing the culture of picture books to a wider audience. In Korea, we have had many imported picture books and they have tended to be mainly educational. But in the last two or three years, this is changing. Now we are studying and learning from the books of many other countries and letting people know about them. We've covered Japan, England, Russia, France, Germany, Korea and the US. As a publisher, we publish this journal and also picture books. Our books have been exported to France, China, US, Switzerland and Taiwan."
Please click images to enlarge.
Having worked closely with the Korean children's publishing industry in recent years, Martin Salisbury has been contributing articles to the beautifully produced Story of Picture Books, a journal published by Sang Publisher of Paju Book City in Seoul. The journal is published twice yearly and, in the words of Yu mi Myung, an editor with Sang publishing and assistant at the CJ Picture Book Festival office:
"This journal was started with the purpose of introducing the culture of picture books to a wider audience. In Korea, we have had many imported picture books and they have tended to be mainly educational. But in the last two or three years, this is changing. Now we are studying and learning from the books of many other countries and letting people know about them. We've covered Japan, England, Russia, France, Germany, Korea and the US. As a publisher, we publish this journal and also picture books. Our books have been exported to France, China, US, Switzerland and Taiwan."
Please click images to enlarge.
Bologna Children's Book Fair 2011
Professor Martin Salisbury was one of four keynote speakers looking at issues around publishing children's picturebooks for Ipad and Iphone at the international conference on digital publishing for children that formed the opening event of this year's Bologna Children's Book Fair. The conference was attended by 300 or so publishers and creatives from around the world. Plenty of last year's MA Children's Book Illustration graduates' work was on show at the fair itself, including Nadia Shireen's next picture book with Random House, Hey Presto.
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Professor Martin Salisbury was one of four keynote speakers looking at issues around publishing children's picturebooks for Ipad and Iphone at the international conference on digital publishing for children that formed the opening event of this year's Bologna Children's Book Fair. The conference was attended by 300 or so publishers and creatives from around the world. Plenty of last year's MA Children's Book Illustration graduates' work was on show at the fair itself, including Nadia Shireen's next picture book with Random House, Hey Presto.
Please click images to enlarge.
European Storytelling Archive
The aim of this project is to create an archive of subtitled digital films of oral storytelling drawn from a wide range of European languages and cultural traditions. We have chosen to create a video archive in order to preserve not only the texts of the stories, but also the non-verbal narrative and performance techniques of a wide range of storytellers.
This will be of use to both the study of scholars and to teachers who wish to encourage their pupils / students to tell and record their own stories, giving them the opportunity to contribute to the archive themselves. To encourage these additional contributions we plan to develop a suite of open source software tools through which school pupils and FE/HE students will be able to create their own digital stories using computer technology and social media as a contemporary analogue of oral transmission. We also plan to create a virtual environment for communication and self-initiated, peer-supported creative learning - an online European Story Map - through which these contributions can be shared to stimulate and encourage further storytelling.
Supported by the British Academy.
The aim of this project is to create an archive of subtitled digital films of oral storytelling drawn from a wide range of European languages and cultural traditions. We have chosen to create a video archive in order to preserve not only the texts of the stories, but also the non-verbal narrative and performance techniques of a wide range of storytellers.
This will be of use to both the study of scholars and to teachers who wish to encourage their pupils / students to tell and record their own stories, giving them the opportunity to contribute to the archive themselves. To encourage these additional contributions we plan to develop a suite of open source software tools through which school pupils and FE/HE students will be able to create their own digital stories using computer technology and social media as a contemporary analogue of oral transmission. We also plan to create a virtual environment for communication and self-initiated, peer-supported creative learning - an online European Story Map - through which these contributions can be shared to stimulate and encourage further storytelling.
Supported by the British Academy.
Bologna Book Fair 2010
Professor Martin Salisbury was one of the judges at Bologna Children's Book Fair 2010. This video provides a taste of the event and features interviews with each of the judges, including Martin.
Pam Smy's famous sketchbooks are currently teeming with research for two new projects. Lob is a new book by award winning author, Linda Newbery, published in Spring 2010 by David Fickling. Much of the narrative takes place in the setting of a patch of allotments. The second project is a collection of multi-cultural lullabies edited by Kathy Henderson and to be published by Frances Lincoln, also in 2010.
Martin Salisbury's recent book, Play Pen has now been published in mainland China. The book, which was first published by Laurence King Publishing in the UK in 2007, has also been sold to South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, France, Spain and the USA.
What do You See? International Perspectives on Children's Book Illustration, edited by Jennifer Harding and Pat Pinsent (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), features chapters by Martin Salisbury and Peter Cook. The book contains papers delivered at the fourteenth annual conference of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) in conjunction with Roehampton University.
Martin Salisbury was the opening speaker at the Children's Books Ireland Conference 2009: Challenge and Change in Children's Books. The conference ran over the weekend of 16-17 May.
In 2009, Martin Salisbury and John Lawrence worked together on a three part BBC Television series on children's books entitled Picture Book. John Lawrence was interviewed about his work as an illustrator over the last fifty years with particular focus on the practical aspects of engraving and his project illustrating Treasure Island for Walker Books. Martin Salisbury spoke about a range of artists, past and present.
The series was broadcast on BBC4 in November 2009 .
John Lawrence finally completed his epic illustrated version of Treasure Island in 2009. The book, illustrated entirely through coloured vinyl engraving, took many months to complete and was published in Walker Books' Illustrated Classics series.
Martin Salisbury and Morag Styles (Professor of Children's Poetry, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education) are currently working on their jointly written book for Laurence King Publishing, Children's Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling.
Morag and Martin also delivered a joint paper at the conference, Beyond Borders: Art, Narrative and Culture in Picture Books at the University of Glasgow, September 2009. Each has contributed a chapter to the recently published book Postmodern Picturebooks: Play, Parody and Self-Referentiality, edited by Laurance Sipe and Sylvia Pantaleo (Routledge). Martin has just completed the recording of audio support material for a new Open University course in Children's Literature.
Words About Pictures, Pictures About Words is an ongoing collaborative project between staff and students on the MA Children's Book Illustration course at Anglia Ruskin and those on the MEd course at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Morag Styles (Reader in Children's Literature at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge) and Martin Salisbury first developed this programme of shared lectures and seminars in 2006. Morag and Martin are also co-supervising Katherina Manolessou in her research and teaching across each other's courses. The project aims to facilitate a closer understanding between theory and practice in children's book studies.
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