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 [[Category:New Reviews|Art]][[Category:Art|*]]__NOTOC__ <!-- remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Hurst0957181167|title=On My WayBlue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk Coastal Walksof Brian Lewis|author=Alan Marshall

|genre=SportArt|summary=It was pure serendipity: after There are few positive things which can be said about a five-hour drive we were, annoyinglysubstandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys trying to our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the church hall, so we went in walls - and found a display was completely taken by the work of the most gorgeous picturesBrian Lewis. I'd cheerfully have bought every one searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and hung them on our wallsthe print I wanted was ‘not available’. Oh, dear - then a few doors down from the apartment, but thought that I would have to make do found a gift shop with a couple stack of greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' brand new books - and a framed print of the picture I couldn't resist buying itwanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095444003X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia BlackburnAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=ThreadsRed is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|summary=''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to walk the mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as a miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, changed our view of the world''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1980891117|title=G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: The Delicate Life A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John CraskeWebley

|genre=BiographyArt|summary=John Craske George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a fisherman, career lasting from a family of fishermen, who became too ill the 1770s to go to seathe Regency era. He was born in Sheringham on also one of the north Norfolk coast in 1881 and would eventually die in the Norwich hospital in 1943 after a life which could have been defined by ill health. There were various explanations for what ailed himmost prolific, what caused him to sink into a stupourpainting nearly 5, sometimes for years at a 000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of that time and he was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. But John had a natural artistic talent, albeit that his work had to be done on carefully recorded the available surfaces in his home. Chair seats, window sills, the backs names of each of doors all carried his wonderful pictures of the sea. Then he moved on to embroideryclients, producing wonderful pictures of the Norfolk coast - and, most famously, of the evacuation at Dunkirksubsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099582198</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Manton, Phyllis Bray and David BuckmanHewitt_Renoir|title=Titania and OberonRenoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon|author=Catherine Hewitt

|summary=I guess Deep in the rural parts of France in the best children's literature can do away with complete veracity1860s, as long as it has something about it you would never really expect to find someone who would come to embody a full artistic period – and not just a movement at that is recognisable – , but a little full generation of the spirit, heart both creative and character of the real thing, whatever it may besocietal change. And if you were to expect that's the case then it definitely applies to children's literature illustrationssomeone, such they would like as those provided close on two hundred times by [[:Category:Michael Foreman|Michael Foreman]]not be male. But almost stumbling into the hedonistic culture of Montmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadon. This prolific artist leapt at a scholarship She started in the US when he'd completed his official, formal studiescircus that first caught her teenaged eye, although her gymnastic career was short-lived. But what she did have from that was the poise to be an appealing model for some seriously important painters and a natural beauty and figure to appeal to both them and it would appear – huge credits list regardless – that he's never stopped moving sincetheir audiences. And what she also had, as this book takes us much to all corners the surprise of many and the worlddistaste of some, and back home again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704721</amazonuk>was artistic talent of her own…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Graham and Stephen BiestyMurakami_Music|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsAbsolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa|author=Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa|rating=3.5

|summary=Trains look imposingMurakami loves music, but true fans (little boys, usually from about three years old and upwards) want to know what lies beneath the skin which any reader of his could tell you can seeas much. They want to know how it works. Getting to grips with Norwegian Wood was named after a Beatles song (albeit one not very well known) and After Dark is framed by a music soundtrack in real life a brilliant display of atmospheric setting. With this, all that love is quite here. And like all who have a big askgood taste in music, but the next best thing is ''Stephen BiestyMurakami's Trains'' which features trains from all over the world is eclectic and spanning the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through to the trains of the future which can reach a speed of 430 kph and don't even run on railsvery well considered. Once the train reaches a speed I found myself looking up musicians after reading this because I found many of 150 kph the wheels are raised and the train is held up by magnetic forces alonehis opinions quite convincing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura CummingRavilious_Recent|title= The Vanishing Man - In Search of VelazquezRecent Past|author=James Ravilious

|summary=Pitching up at an auction and picking up a lost masterpiece for a pittance is James, son of the dream for most art lovers. That seemingly happy circumstance happened to bookseller John Snare at a sale in 1845 and is the centrepiece to Laura Cummingwar artist Eric Ravilious, inherited his father's excellent ''The Vanishing Man – In Pursuit of Velazquez''artistic talents. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587041</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Siri Hustvedt|title= A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex and the Mind|rating= 4|genre= Politics and Society |summary= I must confess that ''A Woman Looking'' spoke to me on Although he was a profoundgifted painter, intimate level. This is in part due his main career was to the apparent similarities between me and Siri Hustvedt - we are both feminists who love art and also love science in a world which emphasises that these two passions are mutually exclusive. What Hustvedt suggests in ''A Woman Looking'' is that it is the similarities between these two areas we should emphasise and that be as a cohesive, inclusive approach towards art and science could help fill the gaps in both disciplinesphotographer. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638895</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate Prendergast|title=Dog on a Digger: The Tricky Incident|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I'm going to tell you a story about Dog, Man, Lady and the Pup. They all work on an industrial site - in fact Dog and Man live there in a caravan and Man drives the sort of digger which is dreamed about by boys large and small. Lady and the Pup run the snack bar and one day as they're all having something to eat, the Pup goes missing. Man and Lady search everywhere but it's Dog's sharp ears which finally track him down - caught in a branch over a fast-flowing stream. And it's Dog who works out how to rescue him. I needed 88 words to tell you that story, but Kate Prendergast does it without using a single one - and she tells it in a far more engaging way than I could ever manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646148</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Will Jones|title= How to Read New York: A Crash Course in Big Apple Architecture|rating= 5|genre= Travel|summary=New York is home to some of the most iconic and instantly-recognisable pieces of architecture in the world. The city is a mishmash of architectural styles, a place where Classical and Colonial meet Renaissance and Modernist. The result is a glorious fusion that works perfectly and upon closer inspection has a plethora of secrets just waiting to be revealed. Welcome to New York...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404104</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn=@dogsofinstagramWood_Gothic|title=Dogs on Instagram|rating=3.5|genre=Pets|summary=I'm a sucker for dogsAmerican Gothic: I can't walk past one in the street without stopping and having a conversation, sometimes without bothering to speak to the owners, so a book of pictures of dogs was going to be right up my street. The wildly popular @dogs_of_instagram, run by Ahmed El Shourbagy and his wife Ashley and launched just four years ago gives us this book of over four hundred photographs of dogs. Originally I had ''no'' intention of reviewing it: in fact I wasn't even intending to read the book, just to have a quick flick through, but within five minutes I was showing other people in the office the picture Life of the Weimaraner riding a bicycle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452151970</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGrant Wood|author=Catherine Hickley|title=The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer Susan Wood and His Secret LegacyRoss MacDonald

|genre=HistoryArt|summary=One Who won a national prize for a crayon drawing of the most newsworthy events three oak leaves before he was properly in modern art history happened seemingly by chance. When tax police raided the house of his teens? Who sought acclaim as an aged man in Munich it was because they assumed he had been moving too much money about artist and paying no tax – this six months after he was seen on came to Europe to study from the train between Bavaria and Switzerland with 'nearly too much' cash. The investigators had no casegreats, but he only to reject all they had something much more complex and rich – to offer? Who instinctively knew a massive legacy picture of 20th Century German his dentist (yes, his dentist) would be more appealing and European art. But that collection had say more to have an origin – one of dubious people than floating water lilies and at times nefarious beginnings, and one that could have quite a rich and convoluted background. Hickley, frilly ballet dancers? The answer in these pagesall cases was Grant Wood, gives us much in practically the way of context as most well as ironing out those convolutions-known painter in America at one time, so this story is both of interest to Nazi historians and art scholars – as well as to those larger numbers who just like a good story told wellstill the best, alongside Edward Hopper, at presenting his world minus any Modernist trappings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292574</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wade GrahamV&A_Patchwork|title=Dream CitiesPatchwork and Quilting: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the WorldA Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum

|genre= HistoryArt|summary=Between 1950 Patchwork is a magical craft: you can take relatively small pieces of material and 2014 the world's urban population increased from 746 million to 3turn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern.9 billion. The urbanising trend is set to continue Quilting converts a topper and a backing fabric with the United Nations predicting that by the middle some wadding in between into a fabric of an entirely different weight. Combine the century 66% of us will be city dwellerstwo crafts and you have something more than magical, a massive six billion peopleoccasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. How have city planners and architects tried But where to cope with the recent surgestart, when there are so many different styles of both crafts? How can they avoid repeating mistakes from the past? Both of those questions are considered in Dream Cities – Seven Urban Ideas That Shape The World, Wade GrahamOne answer is to read ''Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's excellent field guide Guide'' which looks - as the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the modern worldV&A collections. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445659735</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul JarvisRutherford_Landscape|title=Mapping the AirwaysLandscape Gardens|author=Sarah Rutherford|rating=4.5

|summary=Before My first experience of a ''big'' garden was Versailles as a teenager and whilst I startwas impressed, there is nothing wrong with being an anally retentive trainspottery typeI didn't really like it. Having said that, do you see what on I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by the front cover flatness of this first edition marks this book out as being completely it all. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and utterly for the trainspottery type? it was official: I was off big gardens. It is the fact that the foreword is both credited, and datedwould be many years before I revised my opinion. YesOn a trip to Harewood House, unless it was too hot a major change was imminent and the Executive Chairman of BA was going day to be someone else within weekscorralled into the house, this book gladly states that March 2016 was when he put finger to laptop so I wandered the gardens and came up with his page-long contributionfound they were delightful. Have you ever known such attention to detail? I felt uplifted. I guess it's to be expected, when the book concerns such Then a singular entity as cricket match at Stowe gave me the visual history of charts and maps as used by opportunity to walk the airlines that became British Airwaysgrounds for over an hour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654644</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Matt Sewell|title=Penguins I was completely won over and Other Sea Birds|rating=4a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I've always been fascinated by Penguins: I think it Sarah Rutherford's because they look so ''smartLandscape Gardens'' and striking, yet survive in extreme conditions, so the was an opportunity to review a book which contains fifty penguins and other seabirds was too good to miss. Just the pictures would have been enough - the minimalist watercolours of street artist and ornithologist Matt Sewell - but Sewell's whimsical wit and ability to teach without being preachy makes this a book to treasureput him in context.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032224</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David P ColleyBarrie_Peter|title=Seeing the War: The Stories Behind the Famous Photographs from World War IIPeter Pan and Wendy|author=J M Barrie and Robert Ingpen

|genre=HistoryArt|summary=As anybody could tell, It's a still photograph is only part childhood staple - the story of Wendy, John and Michael Darling and their beloved nurse, Nana the truth, if thatNewfoundland dog who took them to school each day. There is a beforehand we donIt't sees George Darling, their father, and an after we can only fantasise about unless we know otherwise. Take who makes the famous image of wartime grunts pushing the flag pole upright – an icon of the War mistake when he locks Nana in the Pacific for yard and the US soldiers, children are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and the films made about Iwo Jima sinceTinkerbell. But other images There's a wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, the war have been just as long-lastingboy who never wants to grow up, Tinkerbell, and the people in rather unpleasant fairy, Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, the photos donlost boys and - of course - Wendy, but then it wouldn't always have movies made of their full story arc. This book is been a collection of classic since the images, original stage production in 1904 and a corrective to that narrative lack, giving much more the novel of a full biography with which to pay tribute1911 if it were otherwise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611687268</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Eng Gee FanGrahame_Wind|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Frida KahloThe Wind in The Willows|author=Kenneth Grahame and Robert Ingpen

|genre=Emerging ReadersArt|summary=Frida Kahlo Kenneth Grahame's ''The Wind in the Willows'' was born in Mexicoone of the defining books of my childhood and more than sixty years after I first read the book I've just recently passed it onto another young reader. When she was a young schoolgirl she contracted polio and was left with a leg which Since the book was first published in 1908 there have been some notable illustrators: Paul Bransom provided illustrations for the 1913 edition, Ernest H Shepard (perhaps better known for his illustrations of ''skinny as a rakeWinnie the Pooh'') in 1933, but she bore Arthur Rackham (possibly the problem stoically and in some ways delighted in being different. Then one day Frida was in a bus which crashed into a car. She was badly injured and even when she was over leading illustrator from the worst she still had to rest golden age of book illustration) in bed 1940 and filled the time by drawing pictures, including a self portrait. Eventually she showed her pictures to a famous artist - Diego Rivera - Robert Ingpen who liked illustrated the pictures, centenary edition of ''and'The Wind in the Willows' Frida. They married and Rivera encouraged Frida's painting. She exhibited, eventually in New York, to great acclaim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jackie MorrisJenkins_100|title= The Wild SwansBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersArt|summary= The most well known version of In the wild swans is probably mid-twentieth century, the railway was something which harked back to the one penned Victorian age with trains being supplanted by Hans Andersen. This extended retelling cars and planes, but steam was being replaced by Jackie Morris adds depthoil, emotional resonance even then and a number of new twists in the twenty-first-century oil is giving way to the taleelectricity. As in most versionsIt's cleaner, Eliza more environmentally friendly and her brothers live a happy and privileged life until the stations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, keen to escape their father's remarriage brings jealousygrime, mistrust were restored and trouble became places to be admired, possibly even lingered in its wake. The brothers are magically changed into wild swans and it is up to brave Eliza to rescue themSimon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen HickmanHurst_Norfolk|title= The Art of Stephen HickmanOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst|rating= 4|genre= FantasyArt|summary= Stephen Hickman has been It was pure serendipity: after a well known artist five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the Fantasy keys to our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the church hall, so we went in - and Science Fiction worlds for found a number display of years now, having created covers for authors such as Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, the most gorgeous pictures. I'd cheerfully have bought every one and Larry Niven. His paintings are vibranthung them on our walls, kinetic, sometimes scary, often sensual, traditional, and yet modern. but thought that I would have to make do with a couple of greetings cards when I saw ''The Art of Stephen HickmanOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' collects hundreds of these paintings, and the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic processI couldn't resist buying it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298456</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lewis Carroll, Mark Burstein (editor) and Salvador DaliBlackburn_Threads|title=Alice's Adventures in WonderlandThreads: The Delicate Life of John Craske|author=Julia Blackburn

|summary=Almost any John Craske was a fisherman, from a family of us can visit fishermen, who became too ill to go to sea. He was born in Sheringham on the countryside north Norfolk coast in 1881 and capture would eventually die in the view Norwich hospital in our memory or 1943 after a life which could have been defined by ill health. There were various explanations for what ailed him, what caused him to sink into a stupor, sometimes for years at a time and he was on our camera with comparatively consummate easeoccasions described as 'an imbecile'. However capturing it But John had a natural artistic talent, albeit that his work had to be done on the available surfaces in paint is more difficult and yet something some his home. Chair seats, window sills, the backs of us (me included) dream doors all carried his wonderful pictures ofthe sea. It was therefore with great excitement that I picked up this compact book Then he moved on to embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of seven lessons in landscape painting. As I believe (with good evidence) that I have the artistic ability Norfolk coast - and, most famously, of a house brick, it would be a challenge but I also have a dream to followthe evacuation at Dunkirk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402802</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher DellBray Titania|title=Mythology: An Illustrated Journey Into Our Imagined Worlds|rating=4.5|genre=Spirituality Titania and ReligionOberon|summaryauthor=What does a rainbow mean to you? How would you explain the creation of the world if you had no science as such, or the changing of the seasons? What other kinds of natures – chaotic trickeryJo Manton, evil personae or even the characteristics of goats – people your world? And why is it that the answers man and woman have collectively formed to such questions have been so similar across the oceans Phyllis Bray and across the centuries? This highly pictorial volume looks at the mythologies that formed those answers, and locks on to a multitude of subjects – blood, music, godly activity – to show us what has followed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500291519</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jules Nilsson|title=The Hounds of FalsterboDavid Buckman

|genre=For SharingArt|summary=''In between the beach hutsEquus, Waiting for Godot and A Mid-summer Night's Dream'<br>'– three very distinctive plays, and my favourite three, out of which you won'Where t often get me choosing just one. But were I to do so, it might actually be the white sands meet last, for the seassimple reason that I would delight in playing any and all characters from it. Yes,''<br>''The heather meets I know Hermia and Helena look a bit implausible now – but I put it to you stranger things happen on stage… Some of the sand dunes''<br>strangest things involve a player himself, a lowly actor who gets given an ass's head and is forced to be enamoured of a fairy queen. It'And long grasses dance s this section of the breezeplay that this book concentrates on, in quite stunning form.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula BriggsBM_Origami|title=Drawing Projects for ChildrenOrigami, Poems and Pictures|author=The British Museum

|genre=CraftsArt|summary=Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Drawing Projects for ChildrenOrigami, Poems and Pictures'' is a beautifuland I was transported to Japan. As the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, full-colour guide haiku poetry and painting. I'll confess that encourages children it was the origami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to use which the rest of the book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a range boat and in case you're worried, all the entries have a degree of materials difficulty (from 'simple' through to create stunning 'tricky') and thought-provoking artworkthis one is at the lowest level. As }}'{{Frontpage|isbn=Foreman_Travel|title=Travels With My Sketchbook|author=Michael Foreman|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=I guess the author points outbest children's literature can do away with complete veracity, the end result is not always as important long as it has something about it that is recognisable – a little of the journey spirit, heart and this book helps children to move away from character of the more traditionalreal thing, or whatever it may be. And if that'safes the case then it definitely applies to children' type of drawing styles and indulge s literature illustrations, such as those provided close on two hundred times by [[:Category:Michael Foreman|Michael Foreman]]. This prolific artist leapt at a scholarship in a little more experimentation the US when he'd completed his official, formal studies, and risk taking. The it would appear – huge credits list regardless – that he's never stopped moving since, as this book is ideal for parents takes us to use with their childrenall corners of the world, but each chapter is a self-contained lesson plan that facilitators and teachers can use with groupsback home again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908966742</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna WeltmanBiesty Trains|title=This is Not a Maths BookStephen Biesty's Trains|author=Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty

|summary=I have to admitTrains look imposing, I wasn't a huge fan of maths at school. Maybe if I'd had this book when I was a childbut true fans (little boys, I would have been. 'This is not a Maths Book' cleverly bridges the gap between maths usually from about three years old and art and teaches kids how upwards) want to make beautiful patterns and shapes by using mathematical principles. We learn about parabolic curves, Pascal's triangle, know what lies beneath the stomachion, tesselation and 3D drawingsskin which you can see. Because the pages are interactive and hands-on, kids are learning the rules of maths without realising They want to know how itworks. After all, there Getting to grips with one in real life is no reason why maths shouldn't be fun!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402055</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Andrew Wilson|title=Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=On the face of it Lee McQueen might not have seemed like the ideal candidate for greatness in the world of haute couture. He was the youngest son of an East London taxi driverquite a big ask, but there was history in the rag trade within the family, although his father told him that if he wanted to sell clothes he should get a market stall. Determined to do it next best thing is ''Stephen Biesty'hiss Trains'' way, Lee borrowed the money which features trains from a relative to enable him to attend Central St Martins after doing a tailoring apprenticeship. The name 'Lee' might confuse you, but at all over the time McQueen began his own business he was claiming benefits world and decided to use his middle name to avoid detection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471131785</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Quentin Blake|title=Tell me a Picture - Adventures in Looking at Art|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=When did you last read a children's book that absolutely flummoxed you in spanning the way it showed or told you something you didn't know? early steam train (And please be an adult when you answer that, or else it won't be quite so impressive.complete with cowcatcher) Back in 2001, Quentin Blake wasn't a Knight yet – he hadn't even got his CBE – but he did get allowed right through to put on his own show at the National Gallery, with other people's pictures that contain oddities, stories, unexpected detail – sparks on canvas and paper that would inspire anyone looking, trains of whatever age, to piece things together, work things out, ''form a narrative''. The pictures came with no major labelling, no context – just what they held, and some typically scratched Blake characters discussing the images as a lead-in. They were simply hung in alphabetical order, and probably could not have been more different. This then is future which can reach a picture book of the most literal kind, with 26 stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Esterly|title=The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart speed of Making|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Bouncing between his studio in upstate New York 430 kph and the sites of various English sojourns, woodcarver David Esterlydon's seems to be an idyllic existencet even run on rails. Yet it's not all cosy cottages in Once the snow and watching geese and coyotes when he looks up from his workbench. There is an element train reaches a speed of hard-won retreat from 150 kph the trials of life in this memoir, but at wheels are raised and the same time there train is an argument for the essential difficulty of the artist's life. 'Carvers are starvers,' a wizened English carver once told him. Certainly there is no great fortune to be won from a profession as obscure as limewood carving, but the rewards outweigh the hard graft for Esterlyheld up by magnetic forces alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649191</amazonuk>