Yok Yok is Back!
Yok Yok is back! Yok Yok is a magical character who has roamed the world from China to Iran for thirty years. With nine titles in print and international editions in China, Argentina and Italy, Yok Yok is traveling the world!
Salon D’Automne 2012
Poster (pdf)Recent features
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
Recent 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.
Catalog Cover (pdf)
Catalog Interior (pdf)
Chateau de St-Maurice, Switzerland
The Chateau de St-Maurice in St-Maurice Switzerland hosted an exhibition May through October 2011. See the cover and catalog for the show below:
Catalog Cover (pdf)Catalog Interior (pdf)
"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
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.