Errol Le Cain 06 Aug 2006 08:20 am
Errol Le Cain – V
– Have You Seen My Sister? is another children’s book illustrated by Errol Le Cain and which I am sampling here today.
The book was written by Mathew Price and is the second collaboration the pair did together. (The Christmas Stockings was published in 1987.) This is the last of Le Cain’s published work; it was published in 1990 posthumously.
It’s not my favorite of his books. The watercolor illustrations are a bit too sweet for my taste and seem to rely on what he learned from the commercial world of animation. However, the genius is in the details. Each page is packed with things to look at and identify. There’s another whole story in the illustrations.
(Click on any image to enlarge.)
This is the cover as well as three interior pages. The entire book is done as double page spreads. Each page has a die-cut hole in it so you see through to the next (or past) page. For example, in the second page below, the stork is on the previous page and can be seen through the hole.
To review who Errol was and other books of his I’ve featured go:
here IV or
here III or
here II or
here I.
