The recent titles that made it into BBC Culture's 100 greatest children's books reveal how storytelling for children is evolving in exciting ways, writes Hephzibah Anderson.
BBC Culture polled 177 experts from 56 countries to find the greatest children's books ever. From Where the Wild Things Are to Haroun and the Sea of Stories, here's the top 100.
Simon Bailly creates striking images set in a retro-future world
Working mainly on commissions for newspapers, Bailly adopts a ‘ligne claire’ style to create crisp, clean-cut illustrations 21/04/2021 7:55 am
Growing up on the books of artist Tomi Ungerer sparked a desire within French illustrator Simon Bailly to tell tales through images. While studying illustration, the most important lesson he learned was about telling a story simply through one picture or a series of them. “It’s something I use every day in my work,” he says. “For example, in my work for newspapers, I have to understand an article, take the essential ideas and draw an image to create a more compact comprehension of the article, basically my vision for the text.”