The Nightingale and the Rose

There's a very interesting article on Katherine Langrish's excellent Steel Thistles blog about 'The Nightingale and the Rose' by Oscar Wilde.
Mary Hoffman writes about her fondness for Wilde's poignant tale of love and sacrifice and Katherine has illustrated the piece with my illustration from "Oscar Wilde: Stories for Children".

Also on Steel Thistles, the Fairytale Reflections by a really interesting series of guest authors are well worth poring through.

My Russian Book Covers

Many thanks to my FaceBook friend Maxim Mitrofanov who sent me these Russian covers of some of my books.

I do get sent most of my foreign editions but somehow I don't think I had seen these.

For me the Russian typography adds a beautiful quality of mystery to these covers.

"Oscar Wilde; Stories for Children" at No 5

Many thanks to my friend Flora who sent me this photo from Hodges Figgis showing that Oscar is climbing even higher in the bestsellers this Christmas.

"Oscar Wilde: Stories for Children" still a bestseller

When I was up visiting Niamh at Hodges Figgis it was nice to see my "Oscar Wilde; Stories for Children" book is still in the bestsellers charts twenty two years after publication.

Below are some paintings from the book.

Enchanted Ireland

This painting from "Oscar Wilde: Stories for Children" will also be in the Cologne show which is on from the 2nd to 15th June at the Altes Pfandhaus, Karthäuser Wall 20, 50678 Köln.
Admission is free.
The show is part of Cologne's Irish Children's Book festival which is entitled "Enchanted Ireland".

Oscar Wilde: Stories for Children

It's nice to see "Oscar Wilde; Stories for Children" doing so well in the Irish Bestsellers.
Not bad for a book I illustrated twenty years ago.