Carson ellis

Home, is the long awaited first solo title by Carson Ellis, the American illustrator and co-creator of the Wildwood books. It’s a subject that’s close to her heart – writing on th…

Carson Ellis is an illustrator living in Portland, Oregon.

Carson Ellis, illustrator // “We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain.” ― Colin Meloy, Wildwood

Carson Ellis

It's World Book Day tomorrow and following on from my last post on the fabulous John Rylands Library it seemed like a good time to take a look at our new favourite book here - Carson Ellis's Home. The fabulous book takes us on a journey through the many different types of homes from houses in the country, flats in the city, homes on buses, boats and even a shoe. At the end we find the artist herself in her studio looking at the objects which inspired the book. The illustrations are beautiful…

The singer, banjoist, and mandolinist Mick Moloney came up in the Dublin folk scene of the nineteen-sixties, then moved to Philadelphia, earning a Ph.D. in folklore and folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. He also founded the Washington Square Harp and Shamrock Orchestra, based at N.Y.U. With the fiddler Athena Tergis, the klezmer singer Tamar Korn, the Filipino vocalist Grace Nono, and plenty of help from the local community of musicians and scholars, he’ll be presiding over four…

"Feels like reading a love story that doesn't quite know it's a love story yet, and a success story that doesn't know it's made it." --Emma Straub, New York Times-bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow Award-winning, beloved children's book author and illustrator Carson Ellis makes a stunning adult debut with an illustrated memoir that evocatively captures a specific cultural moment of the early 2000s and in her journey as an artist. In January 2001, the young artist Carson Ellis moved…

Carson Ellis - Wildwood

So the shortest day has come! Though it might be outshined by the dazzling delights of the holiday season, the winter solstice has long been at the root of popular December traditions. Newbery medalist Susan Cooper ’s brand new picture book The Shortest Day reconnects us to the centuries-long s

Charles McGrath on what happened to the great defender of Empire when he settled in the United States.