Errol Le Cain &Illustration 26 Dec 2007 08:24 am
Christmas Stockings
- The book by Matthew Price, The Christmas Stockings, is a fun book for kids with large illustrations by Errol Le Cain. Santa has trouble getting around an apartment building in the city, so you have to help him locate a number of doors and windows, which cut out and open, so that he can move from apartment to apartment delivering his goodies.
It’s not a book that I ever loved, but it’s certainly part of the canon. The style is less like the irridescent watercolors of his other books, and more like a cartoon book done with a mix of watercolors and colored pencils.
Each page is a double page spread, so that there are fewer individual illustrations and big is the byword. Not as delicate as some of the others but still it’s the work of an artist.
More to the point, it’s specifically a Christmas book, and when more appropriate to attend to it than now. So here are several of its double page spreads.
Inside front cover; Santa arrives._______(Click any image to enlarge.)
Pages 2-3___Santa arrives on the rooftop.
Pages 4-5___Once inside, he tries to move down the building’s floors, but needs the reader to help him find an exit. There’s a hidden door under the airplane that opens.
Pages 8-9___The door marked “Exit” opens.
Pages 12-13___The door in front of Santa opens.
Pages 16-17___The window opens allowing Santa to escape.
Inside the back cover sits one of the best illustrations in the book.___
As you know, I’ve posted a number of his other books, and you can click any of these links to find those posts.
____Puffin Books_______ ________________Mr. Mistoffelees
____The Snow Queen_______________-____Aladdin
____Growltiger_________________________Thorn Rose
____Pied Piper of Hamelin_______________12 Dancing Princesses
____Have You Seen My Sister____________Hiawatha’s Childhood
_________Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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