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Mr. Telescope is the title of a children's book that I have started a year ago, as a summer project. You can read a bit about the start of it right here. Unfortunately due to my university work and a higher stress pressure that I felt during the final year of my course, I wasn't willing to go back to this project. Well, I went back to this idea and I am in the process of completing the initial spreads. The next phase will be to have these reviewed and accepted. Mr. Telescope is a story about a man with one telescopic eye. He lives in Warsaw, Poland. The story follows his journey through the city, while he searches for his cat, Filka. Here are some sneak peaks into the illustrations.

Potential Client - Dwie Siostry    Dwie Siostry is a publishing company based in Warsaw, Poland. It was established in 2005 by three friends: Joanna Rzyska, Jadwiga Jędras and Ewa Stiasny.  The publishers specialises in children's literature and puts pressure on the graphic design of the book. Books published by the company include:  Babcia na jabłoni ,  Mira Lobe  with illustrations of  Mirosław Pokor a, series about a detective, Ture Sventon by  Åke Holmberg , children's poems  Stanisław Jachowicz ,  Julian Tuwim  and  Aleksander Fredr a. At the Bologne Children's Book Fair 2018, the company received the award for the Best European Children's Publishers of the Year.  source  Many of the books from my own library come from this publisher. I think that the challenge of producing collage and ink illustrations for the publishers would be very informative and refle...

  Laura Carlin lives and works in London. She is a graduate from Buckinghamshire University and the Royal College of Art, where she received a Masters and won the Quentin Blake Award.   She was awarded the Uniqlo Fashion Illustration Award and a V&A Award and an honourable mention in the Bologna Ragazzi Award.   In November 2014 another Walker Books title illustrated by Laura ‘The Promise’ was selected by The New York Times as the best illustrated title of 2014.      An established illustrator, who's family thought that her career will mean painting photo realistic paintings of cats. During her university years, she was faced with the task of getting out of sketchbooks with her drawings, however she felt too close with them. One of the examples of her closeness to sketchbooks was a project with the Japanese Embassy. Carlin has approached several embassies with an idea, that she will document...