Lisbeth Zwerger's drawings are so structurally stunning, add this to her surreal imagination and you have a true genius of illustration, which is why she is one of the most honored illustrators alive today. These works are from The Wizard of OZ by L.Frank Baum published in 1996 by North South Books. It constantly frustrates me that books like this go out of print and then are virtually impossible to get. You would think in this day and age it would be easier to print to demand or something…

最近買ったポストカードでお気に入りはコレ♪LisbethZwergerさん、ご存知の方も沢山おられるかと思いますが。前の記事の絵もそうです★☆線がすごく繊細で、絵も変わってるけどなんかキャラクター達が愛らしくてスキです。あいにくこの人の絵本は読んだことないんだけど。この絵はどの絵本にでてくるんだろぅ～気になる！！LisbethZwerger

lisbeth zwerger’s Swan Lake {2002} is beautifully strange. delicate watercolors shift between impermanence and reality. from odette’s* swan headed glove to the impenetrable mists, we fl…

Based in New York at the turn of the twentieth century, The Gift of the Magi is an urban melodrama sprinkled with some of the magic of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. We meet Della, a young w…

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The Gift Of The Magi // illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger

I know that I feature quite a few "unconventional" children's book illustrators on this blog, and believe me, that is intentional. But that doesn't mean that the original fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, The Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and even Lewis Carroll don't deserve recognition. There is a reason, after all, why those (often…

Седьмая книга Lisbeth Zwerger в этом журнале – ранее были “The Gift of the Magi” , “Little Hobbin” , “The Selfish Giant” , “The Wizard of Oz” , Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales и “Little Red Cap” .

An enchanting and original vision for L. Frank Baum’s classic ode to wonderment and joy.

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