Anglia Ruskin Cambridge School of Art graduate, Kazuno Kohara, who graduated from the MA in Children’s Book Illustration in 2007, has had her first book, Ghosts in the House, voted as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children’s Books 2008.
The story, which Kanzuno wrote and illustrated herself, describes a girl and her cat moving into an old house at the edge of town. 'It was a splendid place,' she writes, 'but there was one problem. The house was... haunted!'
New York Times Book Review Editor Gregory Cowles describes the book at as ‘sweet and beautiful’. Cowles writes ‘Ghosts in the House! provides a welcome timeout: its simple linocut illustrations are limited to three candy-corn colours, orange and black and white, and it is so insistently unironic that it ends, sincerely, with the words “And they all lived happily ever after” – the story manages a gentle charm.'
Professor John Lawrence, who has illustrated books for the likes of Phillip Pullman, teaches on the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University. Many of the course’s graduates go on to sign publishing deals.
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