Flooded: Winner of the Klaus Flugge Prize for Illustration 2023

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I was at my last school for 4 years and we had ********* book fairs every term – and every term, I was disappointed by the narrow range of books. It was the second module on the course and it’s when I started to think about sequences and how a few images could tell a story. There was just the right amount of choice to suit everyone without being overwhelming and I received comments from parents and staff about the quality of books offered compared to previous sales which have always been based around current crazes and well known celebrity authors.

There is an image, based on the Oxford Circus print, where a panda bear was talking with a tiger on the tube platform, blaming the politicians about what was happening. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. After many years working as an illustrator / designer, her passion for picture books led her to study a MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art and graduated in 2021.

Flooded draws the readers’ attention to the increasing problems of climate change without being explicit. Flooded was one of the projects I created during my MA Children´s Books Illustration, at Anglia Ruskin (2019). For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. Can I be cheeky and ask for a tour of your workspace - it was great to get a snippet from your video.

They would also only drop off a case of books and leave us to run it – it was so lovely to have you on hand to chat to the children and recommend them books, as well as the small (but appreciated! Working with a limited colour palette and negative space is one of the elements that make Flooded such a success. Preoccupied by their own concerns, they deal with the practical inconveniences of rising water in humorous and inventive ways until finally they listen to the one voice urging action, and work together on a solution. Part of your journey into illustration and design led you to complete an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin. No one minds at first as it was just a little bit of water, but as the city carries on with its usual rhythm, the smaller animals start to realise that it is all becoming a rather big problem.You guys were so fab and Dawn was such a lovely presence in the schools - I will absolutely be in touch next time I'm in your neck of the woods. If you like to analyse stories and ask questions and think about why the author or illustrator made certain choices, there's lots here to discuss. The story is relatively simple - a town is being flooded and the animals must work together to try and fix it - and the illustrations are captivating; there is so much to. Flooded is a fun story illustrating how small problems can grow into bigger problems if we don’t give them enough attention. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed.Can you talk us through how you went about making this choice and whether you experimented with other colour concepts first? These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Flooded by Mariajo Ilustrajo is one of the five books on the shortlist for the 2023 Klaus Flugge Prize.