Illustrating Children's Books: A Guide to Drawing, Printing and Publishing [Paperback]

Nancy S. Hand (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Trade (September 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0134514025
• ISBN-13: 978-0134514024
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,336,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Useful, but dated reference..., June 18, 2002

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Mark Savary "moon_city" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Illustrating Children's Books: A Guide to Drawing, Printing and Publishing (Paperback)

Nancy S. Hands' guide to illustrating for children's books is both interesting, with timeless assistance on drawing, and at the same time, a bit dated.

The book does offer some "how to", but is really more concentrated on helping you find and determine your own style.

Being published well over over a decade ago, some of the information on approaching a publisher may be out of date. Also, the information on color separation is interesting, but not generally applicable or relevent anymore thanks to the computer revolution and the advent of the scanner.

Useful for the information on focusing style, but a revised edition that takes into account the changes in technology and within the printing/publishing industry would be a bit more valuable.

I would recommend two titles over this one; for writing/publishing, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books" by Harold D. Underdown, and for illustrating, Jill Bossert's "Children's Book Illustration: Step by Step Techniques".