100 Great Children’s Picturebooks

　　全書彷彿一場華麗非凡的視覺饗宴，網羅百年來世界各地設計師與插畫家所創作出最美麗的一百部兒童繪本，包括開啟互動先河的《The Slant Book》、捷克籍畫家M. Sasek的《This is》城市系列、到近期《這不是我的帽子》作者作品，每部作品都有無可取代的原創性，圖像、筆觸與技法等更是形塑出創作環境與作者本身的獨特性，像是俄羅斯的建構主義、義大利的未來主義、戰後的新浪漫主義……等，就像一面鏡子從兒童教育照向家庭觀念，再反映當時的社會情況，跨越廿世紀直至今日。

　　作者Martin Salisbury是英國兒童圖書插畫碩士課程的設計者，他以插圖、平面設計和版面構圖等多角度審視每一本書，完整呈現跨越國界的繪本藝術以及發展歷史。除了展示極具價值的初版圖書，也細心闡明每本書的獨到之處，提供最佳兒童文學的創作表現範例。(文/ 博客來編譯)

This unashamed visual feast celebrates the best designed and illustrated picturebooks from around the world over the past one hundred years.

Each book is a creation of genius and inventiveness, and their design and illustration represent such diverse trends as the Russian Constructivists, Italian Futurists, and Postwar Neo-romantics. They are also mirrors of their times reflecting social concerns from a child''s and family''s perspectives throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century.

Fearlessly confronting the frontiers between a child''s picturebook and art, this is a collection of books that anyone with an interest in design, illustration, or simply children''s literature should know about.

作者簡介

　　Martin Salisbury is a lecturer in illustration and a freelance illustrator. He designed and leads the UK's first Masters program in children's book illustration at Anglia Ruskin University. He is the author of Illustrating Children's Books (Quarto/A&C Black), a practical guide to illustration.