Yvonne Gilbert is een van de meest productieve en geprezen illustratoren van dit moment. Haar werk, variërend van kinderboekillustraties en postzegels tot posters en platenhoezen, weerspiegelt haar levenslange onderzoek naar en interesse in de kwaliteit van materialen en oppervlakken. Ze vangt meesterlijk de glans van een geborduurde mantel of de zachte huid van een baby, met een uitzonderlijk oog voor compositie, proportie en detail. Gilbert's aanpak resulteert in weelderige visuele weergaven die zowel echte als imaginaire werelden tot leven brengen met opmerkelijke diepte en zintuiglijke rijkdom.
A wonderfully illustrated collection of timeless myths and fairytales about horses and ponies. Perfect for horse and pony lovers, or children who simply want to be whisked away to a magical world of adventure.
From ancient times the ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land. But Adara was not afraid. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst freeze that anyone, even the Old Ones, could remember. Adara could not remember the first time she had seen the ice dragon. It seemed that it had always been in her life, glimpsed from afar as she played in the frigid snow long after the other children had fled the cold. In her fourth year she touched it, and in her fifth year she rode upon its broad, chilled back for the first time. Then, in her seventh year, on a calm summer day, fiery dragons from the North swooped down upon the peaceful farm that was Adara’s home. And only a winter child—and the ice dragon who loved her—could save her world from utter destruction.
When Delilah is united with Oliver, a prince literally taken from the pages of a fairytale, the line between what is on the page and what is possible is blurred, and all must be resolved for the two to live happily ever after.