Recent blog posts
Two recent blog posts featuring Etienne Delessert:
“I’m really what they call in the States ‘outsider art.’” : The Work of Etienne Delessert / schoollibraryjournal.comMany Questions Over Breakfast with Etienne Delessert / Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Yok Yok is Back!
Yok-Yok is back as of March 2011. Yok-Yok is a magical character who has roamed the world from China to Iran for thirty years. Five new titles at once, with a major promotion by Giboulées- Gallimard Jeunesse in Paris. We will re-release the album YOK-YOK CHANTE, with music by Henri Dès and lyrics by Pierre Grosz and Anne van der Essen.
Articles & Reviews:
Liberation - 25 Mars 2011
LeMatinDimanche - 18 Mars 2011
LivresHebdo - 18 Mars 2011
"What a Circus" - Eric Carle Museum
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is hosting an exhibit from February 8th through June 5th 2011. Information is available on the museum website or in the flier below.
Chateau de St-Maurice, Switzerland
The Chateau de St-Maurice in St-Maurice Switzerland will be hosting an exhibition starting in May 2011 and lasting until October. Information is available on their website: http://www.expochateau.ch/
"Why Grow Up" - Abilene, Texas
The National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature will be hosting an exhibit from April 15 through June 26. More information available on their website: NCCIL.org. Also available: a PDF brochure for the exhibit.
Huffington Post — The Best Children's Picture Books of the Year
Moon Theater, published in 2009, was listed among the top five children's books of 2009 by the Huffington Post, a news website and political blog. The book was featured in a gallery of Christmas gift ideas in December. HuffingtonPost.com
Livre Hebdo, Le Monde, La Croix
In 1968 Etienne Delessert illustrated two classic short stories by the famous playwright Eugène Ionesco. Forty years later he added the art for two other stories. The book has been published first in France by Gallimard-Jeunesse and has met great acclaim. Media coverage includes Le Temps (PDF), Le Monde (PDF), Livre Hebdo (PDF), Revue des Livres Pour Enfants (PDF), Le Soir (PDF) and La Croix (PDF).
Centre de L'Illustration, Moulins, France, October 2, 2008 to March 2, 2010
The starting point of an exhibit that will travel to Abilene, Texas in the Spring. Information and the French text of the catalog available at: Ricochet-Jeunes.org
Video of Etienne Delessert at work, produced for the exhibit in Moulins.
Poche Illustrateur
The legendary French publisher has started a series of de luxe paperbacks devoted to some of the greatest illustrators (Daumier, Steinberg, André François, Grandville, and Rockwell).
Links
Extended Portfolio in French (La-Bibliotheque.com) Site consacré à Etienne Delessert par la Médiathèque de St.Herblain.
Ricochet-Jeunes.org, a French website managed by Etienne Delessert, dedicated to children's literature.