DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003.

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

BRIAN JACQUES

The opportunity to work on Brain Jacques wonderful series came to me completely out of the blue and underlines the huge part luck can play

in the career

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003.

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

BRIAN JACQUES

The opportunity to work on Brain Jacques wonderful series came to me completely out of the blue and underlines the huge part luck can play

in the career

DAVID ELLIOT

DAVID ELLIOT – Illustrator and author. I was born in 1952 in Ashburton , New Zealand, in the middle of the Canterbury plains where there wasn’t much going on but sheep and pine trees.

DAVID ELLIOT

Bragoon and the pit. Korvus and Sicariss Gruntan scoffs eggs Over the waterfall Bowl and whip Gawra Hom

DAVID ELLIOT

First Map: How James Cook Chartered Aotearoa New Zealand by Tessa Duder. It was a great privilege to be asked to work on Tessa Duder’s First Map, How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand. Tessa has done a wonderful job of recounting the events, misfortunes and accomplishments of Cook’s voyage in the Endeavour between August 1768 and July 1771 and the creation of his magnificent record

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer SYDNEY PENGUIN BOOKS Sydney and the Sea Monster. In 1979 I was lucky enough to spend 5 months working in Antarctica. Sydney and the Sea Monster began when ,years later , I revisited some notebook drawings I had made returning by sea from McMurdo Sound to New Zealand. Somewhere out in that vast black ocean we steamed past a desolate surf-battered needle of rock and suddenly the air and sea around our ship

ARTHUR’S STAR

I dreamed up my first published book one night in 1980, on the end of a pier in Torquay, England. The original story had a much more open-ended ‘darker’ feel to it, with a star convincing Arthur to help him down out of the sky, then escaping into the countryside.

DAVID ELLIOT

Early McPhee rough . Published July 27, 2013 at × in Early McPhee rough.. Home | About me | My books | Other books | Maps | Gallery

DAVID ELLIOT

Jeffrey Kluger Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-land Boats This has got to have been one of my favourite books to work on. The story

has a strang

HENRY’S STARS

One beautiful evening on the farm, Henry stares up at the sky. As he looks from star to star, they seem to form a picture. To Henry, it looks like a great big starry pig running across the sky and he can’t wait to show his discovery to the other farm animals.

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003. SYDNEY PENGUIN BOOKS Sydney and the Sea Monster. In 1979 I was lucky enough to spend 5 months working in Antarctica. Sydney and the Sea Monster began when ,years later , I revisited some notebook drawings I had made returning by sea from McMurdo Sound to New Zealand. Somewhere out in that vast black ocean we steamed past a desolate surf-battered needle of rock and suddenly the air and sea around our ship

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

BRIAN JACQUES

The opportunity to work on Brain Jacques wonderful series came to me completely out of the blue and underlines the huge part luck can play

in the career

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003. SYDNEY PENGUIN BOOKS Sydney and the Sea Monster. In 1979 I was lucky enough to spend 5 months working in Antarctica. Sydney and the Sea Monster began when ,years later , I revisited some notebook drawings I had made returning by sea from McMurdo Sound to New Zealand. Somewhere out in that vast black ocean we steamed past a desolate surf-battered needle of rock and suddenly the air and sea around our ship

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

BRIAN JACQUES

The opportunity to work on Brain Jacques wonderful series came to me completely out of the blue and underlines the huge part luck can play

in the career

DAVID ELLIOT

DAVID ELLIOT – Illustrator and author. I was born in 1952 in Ashburton , New Zealand, in the middle of the Canterbury plains where there wasn’t much going on but sheep and pine trees.

DAVID ELLIOT

Bragoon and the pit. Korvus and Sicariss Gruntan scoffs eggs Over the waterfall Bowl and whip Gawra Hom

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

DAVID ELLIOT

First Map: How James Cook Chartered Aotearoa New Zealand by Tessa Duder. It was a great privilege to be asked to work on Tessa Duder’s First Map, How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand. Tessa has done a wonderful job of recounting the events, misfortunes and accomplishments of Cook’s voyage in the Endeavour between August 1768 and July 1771 and the creation of his magnificent record

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer

HENRY’S STARS

One beautiful evening on the farm, Henry stares up at the sky. As he looks from star to star, they seem to form a picture. To Henry, it looks like a great big starry pig running across the sky and he can’t wait to show his discovery to the other farm animals.

DAVID ELLIOT

Jeffrey Kluger Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-land Boats This has got to have been one of my favourite books to work on. The story

has a strang

DAVID ELLIOT

Early McPhee rough . Published July 27, 2013 at × in Early McPhee rough.. Home | About me | My books | Other books | Maps | Gallery

DAVID ELLIOT

It was a great privilege to be asked to illustrate Janet Frame’s only book for children. The story had been illustrated before, very beautifully, by the well known British illustrator, Robin Jacques.

JOHN FLANAGAN

John Flanagan. I’ve been really pleased to provide a map for one of John Flanagan’s books in his best selling Ranger’s Apprentice series (Ranger’s Apprentice: The Lost Stories) and also a spot drawing of ‘The Heron’ for his other popular series, The Brotherband Chronicles.

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003. SYDNEY PENGUIN BOOKS Sydney and the Sea Monster. In 1979 I was lucky enough to spend 5 months working in Antarctica. Sydney and the Sea Monster began when ,years later , I revisited some notebook drawings I had made returning by sea from McMurdo Sound to New Zealand. Somewhere out in that vast black ocean we steamed past a desolate surf-battered needle of rock and suddenly the air and sea around our ship

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

BRIAN JACQUES

The opportunity to work on Brain Jacques wonderful series came to me completely out of the blue and underlines the huge part luck can play

in the career

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003. SYDNEY PENGUIN BOOKS Sydney and the Sea Monster. In 1979 I was lucky enough to spend 5 months working in Antarctica. Sydney and the Sea Monster began when ,years later , I revisited some notebook drawings I had made returning by sea from McMurdo Sound to New Zealand. Somewhere out in that vast black ocean we steamed past a desolate surf-battered needle of rock and suddenly the air and sea around our ship

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

BRIAN JACQUES

The opportunity to work on Brain Jacques wonderful series came to me completely out of the blue and underlines the huge part luck can play

in the career

DAVID ELLIOT

DAVID ELLIOT – Illustrator and author. I was born in 1952 in Ashburton , New Zealand, in the middle of the Canterbury plains where there wasn’t much going on but sheep and pine trees.

DAVID ELLIOT

Bragoon and the pit. Korvus and Sicariss Gruntan scoffs eggs Over the waterfall Bowl and whip Gawra Hom

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

DAVID ELLIOT

First Map: How James Cook Chartered Aotearoa New Zealand by Tessa Duder. It was a great privilege to be asked to work on Tessa Duder’s First Map, How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand. Tessa has done a wonderful job of recounting the events, misfortunes and accomplishments of Cook’s voyage in the Endeavour between August 1768 and July 1771 and the creation of his magnificent record

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer

HENRY’S STARS

One beautiful evening on the farm, Henry stares up at the sky. As he looks from star to star, they seem to form a picture. To Henry, it looks like a great big starry pig running across the sky and he can’t wait to show his discovery to the other farm animals.

DAVID ELLIOT

Jeffrey Kluger Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-land Boats This has got to have been one of my favourite books to work on. The story

has a strang

DAVID ELLIOT

Early McPhee rough . Published July 27, 2013 at × in Early McPhee rough.. Home | About me | My books | Other books | Maps | Gallery

DAVID ELLIOT

It was a great privilege to be asked to illustrate Janet Frame’s only book for children. The story had been illustrated before, very beautifully, by the well known British illustrator, Robin Jacques.

JOHN FLANAGAN

John Flanagan. I’ve been really pleased to provide a map for one of John Flanagan’s books in his best selling Ranger’s Apprentice series (Ranger’s Apprentice: The Lost Stories) and also a spot drawing of ‘The Heron’ for his other popular series, The Brotherband Chronicles.

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003. SYDNEY PENGUIN BOOKS Sydney and the Sea Monster. In 1979 I was lucky enough to spend 5 months working in Antarctica. Sydney and the Sea Monster began when ,years later , I revisited some notebook drawings I had made returning by sea from McMurdo Sound to New Zealand. Somewhere out in that vast black ocean we steamed past a desolate surf-battered needle of rock and suddenly the air and sea around our ship

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

BRIAN JACQUES

The opportunity to work on Brain Jacques wonderful series came to me completely out of the blue and underlines the huge part luck can play

in the career

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003. SYDNEY PENGUIN BOOKS Sydney and the Sea Monster. In 1979 I was lucky enough to spend 5 months working in Antarctica. Sydney and the Sea Monster began when ,years later , I revisited some notebook drawings I had made returning by sea from McMurdo Sound to New Zealand. Somewhere out in that vast black ocean we steamed past a desolate surf-battered needle of rock and suddenly the air and sea around our ship

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

BRIAN JACQUES

The opportunity to work on Brain Jacques wonderful series came to me completely out of the blue and underlines the huge part luck can play

in the career

DAVID ELLIOT

DAVID ELLIOT – Illustrator and author. I was born in 1952 in Ashburton , New Zealand, in the middle of the Canterbury plains where there wasn’t much going on but sheep and pine trees.

DAVID ELLIOT

Bragoon and the pit. Korvus and Sicariss Gruntan scoffs eggs Over the waterfall Bowl and whip Gawra Hom

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

DAVID ELLIOT

First Map: How James Cook Chartered Aotearoa New Zealand by Tessa Duder. It was a great privilege to be asked to work on Tessa Duder’s First Map, How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand. Tessa has done a wonderful job of recounting the events, misfortunes and accomplishments of Cook’s voyage in the Endeavour between August 1768 and July 1771 and the creation of his magnificent record

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer

HENRY’S STARS

One beautiful evening on the farm, Henry stares up at the sky. As he looks from star to star, they seem to form a picture. To Henry, it looks like a great big starry pig running across the sky and he can’t wait to show his discovery to the other farm animals.

DAVID ELLIOT

Jeffrey Kluger Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-land Boats This has got to have been one of my favourite books to work on. The story

has a strang

DAVID ELLIOT

Early McPhee rough . Published July 27, 2013 at × in Early McPhee rough.. Home | About me | My books | Other books | Maps | Gallery

DAVID ELLIOT

It was a great privilege to be asked to illustrate Janet Frame’s only book for children. The story had been illustrated before, very beautifully, by the well known British illustrator, Robin Jacques.

JOHN FLANAGAN

John Flanagan. I’ve been really pleased to provide a map for one of John Flanagan’s books in his best selling Ranger’s Apprentice series (Ranger’s Apprentice: The Lost Stories) and also a spot drawing of ‘The Heron’ for his other popular series, The Brotherband Chronicles.

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

SYDNEY PENGUIN BOOKS Sydney and the Sea Monster. In 1979 I was lucky enough to spend 5 months working in Antarctica. Sydney and the Sea Monster began when ,years later , I revisited some notebook drawings I had made returning by sea from McMurdo Sound to New Zealand. Somewhere out in that vast black ocean we steamed past a desolate surf-battered needle of rock and suddenly the air and sea around our ship

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

BRIAN JACQUES

The opportunity to work on Brain Jacques wonderful series came to me completely out of the blue and underlines the huge part luck can play

in the career

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

SYDNEY PENGUIN BOOKS Sydney and the Sea Monster. In 1979 I was lucky enough to spend 5 months working in Antarctica. Sydney and the Sea Monster began when ,years later , I revisited some notebook drawings I had made returning by sea from McMurdo Sound to New Zealand. Somewhere out in that vast black ocean we steamed past a desolate surf-battered needle of rock and suddenly the air and sea around our ship

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

BRIAN JACQUES

The opportunity to work on Brain Jacques wonderful series came to me completely out of the blue and underlines the huge part luck can play

in the career

DAVID ELLIOT

DAVID ELLIOT – Illustrator and author. I was born in 1952 in Ashburton , New Zealand, in the middle of the Canterbury plains where there wasn’t much going on but sheep and pine trees.

DAVID ELLIOT

Bragoon and the pit. Korvus and Sicariss Gruntan scoffs eggs Over the waterfall Bowl and whip Gawra Hom

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

DAVID ELLIOT

First Map: How James Cook Chartered Aotearoa New Zealand by Tessa Duder. It was a great privilege to be asked to work on Tessa Duder’s First Map, How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand. Tessa has done a wonderful job of recounting the events, misfortunes and accomplishments of Cook’s voyage in the Endeavour between August 1768 and July 1771 and the creation of his magnificent record

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer

HENRY’S STARS

One beautiful evening on the farm, Henry stares up at the sky. As he looks from star to star, they seem to form a picture. To Henry, it looks like a great big starry pig running across the sky and he can’t wait to show his discovery to the other farm animals.

DAVID ELLIOT

Jeffrey Kluger Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-land Boats This has got to have been one of my favourite books to work on. The story

has a strang

DAVID ELLIOT

Early McPhee rough . Published July 27, 2013 at × in Early McPhee rough.. Home | About me | My books | Other books | Maps | Gallery

DAVID ELLIOT

It was a great privilege to be asked to illustrate Janet Frame’s only book for children. The story had been illustrated before, very beautifully, by the well known British illustrator, Robin Jacques.

JOHN FLANAGAN

John Flanagan. I’ve been really pleased to provide a map for one of John Flanagan’s books in his best selling Ranger’s Apprentice series (Ranger’s Apprentice: The Lost Stories) and also a spot drawing of ‘The Heron’ for his other popular series, The Brotherband Chronicles.

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

DAVID ELLIOT

Bragoon and the pit. Korvus and Sicariss Gruntan scoffs eggs Over the waterfall Bowl and whip Gawra Hom

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

SYDNEY PENGUIN BOOKS Sydney and the Sea Monster. In 1979 I was lucky enough to spend 5 months working in Antarctica. Sydney and the Sea Monster began when ,years later , I revisited some notebook drawings I had made returning by sea from McMurdo Sound to New Zealand. Somewhere out in that vast black ocean we steamed past a desolate surf-battered needle of rock and suddenly the air and sea around our ship

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003.

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

DAVID ELLIOT

Bragoon and the pit. Korvus and Sicariss Gruntan scoffs eggs Over the waterfall Bowl and whip Gawra Hom

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

SYDNEY PENGUIN BOOKS Sydney and the Sea Monster. In 1979 I was lucky enough to spend 5 months working in Antarctica. Sydney and the Sea Monster began when ,years later , I revisited some notebook drawings I had made returning by sea from McMurdo Sound to New Zealand. Somewhere out in that vast black ocean we steamed past a desolate surf-battered needle of rock and suddenly the air and sea around our ship

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003.

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

DAVID ELLIOT

DAVID ELLIOT – Illustrator and author. I was born in 1952 in Ashburton , New Zealand, in the middle of the Canterbury plains where there wasn’t much going on but sheep and pine trees.

DAVID ELLIOT

First Map: How James Cook Chartered Aotearoa New Zealand by Tessa Duder. It was a great privilege to be asked to work on Tessa Duder’s First Map, How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand. Tessa has done a wonderful job of recounting the events, misfortunes and accomplishments of Cook’s voyage in the Endeavour between August 1768 and July 1771 and the creation of his magnificent record POETRY AND STORY COLLECTIONS Between 1999 and 2002 Random House NZ commissioned me to illustrate four anthologies: 100 New Zealand Poems for Children; Another 100 New Zealand Poems for Children; 30 New Zealand Stories for Children and Another 30 New Zealand Stories for Children. The collections gave me a wonderful opportunity to work with material from many Kiwi writers I

admired.

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer

DAVID ELLIOT

With Margaret writing in her inimitable way I was able to concentrate on the drawings and particularly the die-cuts and foldouts I wanted to complement the inward-looking, outward-

DAVID ELLIOT

Jeffrey Kluger Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-land Boats This has got to have been one of my favourite books to work on. The story

has a strang

DAVID ELLIOT

It was a great privilege to be asked to illustrate Janet Frame’s only book for children. The story had been illustrated before, very beautifully, by the well known British illustrator, Robin Jacques.

HENRY’S STARS

One beautiful evening on the farm, Henry stares up at the sky. As he looks from star to star, they seem to form a picture. To Henry, it looks like a great big starry pig running across the sky and he can’t wait to show his discovery to the other farm animals.

JACK LASENBY

Jack Lasenby - Covers Aunt Effie's Ark Right from the start I've loved Jack’s writing, his surreal yet earthy imagination, his compassion,

his insist

JOHN FLANAGAN

John Flanagan. I’ve been really pleased to provide a map for one of John Flanagan’s books in his best selling Ranger’s Apprentice series (Ranger’s Apprentice: The Lost Stories) and also a spot drawing of ‘The Heron’ for his other popular series, The Brotherband Chronicles.

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

DAVID ELLIOT

Bragoon and the pit. Korvus and Sicariss Gruntan scoffs eggs Over the waterfall Bowl and whip Gawra Hom

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

HENRY’S STARS

One beautiful evening on the farm, Henry stares up at the sky. As he looks from star to star, they seem to form a picture. To Henry, it looks like a great big starry pig running across the sky and he can’t wait to show his discovery to the other farm animals.

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

DAVID ELLIOT

Bragoon and the pit. Korvus and Sicariss Gruntan scoffs eggs Over the waterfall Bowl and whip Gawra Hom

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

HENRY’S STARS

One beautiful evening on the farm, Henry stares up at the sky. As he looks from star to star, they seem to form a picture. To Henry, it looks like a great big starry pig running across the sky and he can’t wait to show his discovery to the other farm animals.

DAVID ELLIOT

DAVID ELLIOT – Illustrator and author. I was born in 1952 in Ashburton , New Zealand, in the middle of the Canterbury plains where there wasn’t much going on but sheep and pine trees.

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

DAVID ELLIOT

First Map: How James Cook Chartered Aotearoa New Zealand by Tessa Duder. It was a great privilege to be asked to work on Tessa Duder’s First Map, How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand. Tessa has done a wonderful job of recounting the events, misfortunes and accomplishments of Cook’s voyage in the Endeavour between August 1768 and July 1771 and the creation of his magnificent record

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer SYDNEY PENGUIN BOOKS Sydney and the Sea Monster. In 1979 I was lucky enough to spend 5 months working in Antarctica. Sydney and the Sea Monster began when ,years later , I revisited some notebook drawings I had made returning by sea from McMurdo Sound to New Zealand. Somewhere out in that vast black ocean we steamed past a desolate surf-battered needle of rock and suddenly the air and sea around our ship

DAVID ELLIOT

Jeffrey Kluger Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-land Boats This has got to have been one of my favourite books to work on. The story

has a strang

HENRY’S STARS

One beautiful evening on the farm, Henry stares up at the sky. As he looks from star to star, they seem to form a picture. To Henry, it looks like a great big starry pig running across the sky and he can’t wait to show his discovery to the other farm animals.

DAVID ELLIOT

It was a great privilege to be asked to illustrate Janet Frame’s only book for children. The story had been illustrated before, very beautifully, by the well known British illustrator, Robin Jacques.

JACK LASENBY

Jack Lasenby - Covers Aunt Effie's Ark Right from the start I've loved Jack’s writing, his surreal yet earthy imagination, his compassion,

his insist

JOHN FLANAGAN

John Flanagan. I’ve been really pleased to provide a map for one of John Flanagan’s books in his best selling Ranger’s Apprentice series (Ranger’s Apprentice: The Lost Stories) and also a spot drawing of ‘The Heron’ for his other popular series, The Brotherband Chronicles.

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

DAVID ELLIOT

Bragoon and the pit. Korvus and Sicariss Gruntan scoffs eggs Over the waterfall Bowl and whip Gawra Hom

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

HENRY’S STARS

One beautiful evening on the farm, Henry stares up at the sky. As he looks from star to star, they seem to form a picture. To Henry, it looks like a great big starry pig running across the sky and he can’t wait to show his discovery to the other farm animals.

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

DAVID ELLIOT

Bragoon and the pit. Korvus and Sicariss Gruntan scoffs eggs Over the waterfall Bowl and whip Gawra Hom

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

HENRY’S STARS

One beautiful evening on the farm, Henry stares up at the sky. As he looks from star to star, they seem to form a picture. To Henry, it looks like a great big starry pig running across the sky and he can’t wait to show his discovery to the other farm animals.

DAVID ELLIOT

DAVID ELLIOT – Illustrator and author. I was born in 1952 in Ashburton , New Zealand, in the middle of the Canterbury plains where there wasn’t much going on but sheep and pine trees.

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

DAVID ELLIOT

First Map: How James Cook Chartered Aotearoa New Zealand by Tessa Duder. It was a great privilege to be asked to work on Tessa Duder’s First Map, How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand. Tessa has done a wonderful job of recounting the events, misfortunes and accomplishments of Cook’s voyage in the Endeavour between August 1768 and July 1771 and the creation of his magnificent record

DAVID ELLIOT

I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer SYDNEY PENGUIN BOOKS Sydney and the Sea Monster. In 1979 I was lucky enough to spend 5 months working in Antarctica. Sydney and the Sea Monster began when ,years later , I revisited some notebook drawings I had made returning by sea from McMurdo Sound to New Zealand. Somewhere out in that vast black ocean we steamed past a desolate surf-battered needle of rock and suddenly the air and sea around our ship

DAVID ELLIOT

Jeffrey Kluger Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-land Boats This has got to have been one of my favourite books to work on. The story

has a strang

HENRY’S STARS

One beautiful evening on the farm, Henry stares up at the sky. As he looks from star to star, they seem to form a picture. To Henry, it looks like a great big starry pig running across the sky and he can’t wait to show his discovery to the other farm animals.

DAVID ELLIOT

It was a great privilege to be asked to illustrate Janet Frame’s only book for children. The story had been illustrated before, very beautifully, by the well known British illustrator, Robin Jacques.

JACK LASENBY

Jack Lasenby - Covers Aunt Effie's Ark Right from the start I've loved Jack’s writing, his surreal yet earthy imagination, his compassion,

his insist

JOHN FLANAGAN

John Flanagan. I’ve been really pleased to provide a map for one of John Flanagan’s books in his best selling Ranger’s Apprentice series (Ranger’s Apprentice: The Lost Stories) and also a spot drawing of ‘The Heron’ for his other popular series, The Brotherband Chronicles.

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

DAVID ELLIOT

Bragoon and the pit. Korvus and Sicariss Gruntan scoffs eggs Over the waterfall Bowl and whip Gawra Hom

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

HENRY’S STARS

One beautiful evening on the farm, Henry stares up at the sky. As he looks from star to star, they seem to form a picture. To Henry, it looks like a great big starry pig running across the sky and he can’t wait to show his discovery to the other farm animals.

DAVID ELLIOT

All Rights Reserved © 2018. David Elliot. Hikmat

DAVID ELLIOT

Bragoon and the pit. Korvus and Sicariss Gruntan scoffs eggs Over the waterfall Bowl and whip Gawra Hom

OINK - DAVID ELLIOT

Oink is a simple little book based on the idea of intonation how the same words (or in Oink’s case, animal noises) can mean different things depending on how they are said.

DAVID ELLIOT

Sometimes books present some unexpected and really interesting puzzles to solve. In T.A. Barron’s wonderful ‘The Great Tree of Avalon’ Trilogy, my original commission to create a tree logo and internal chapter ‘spot’ evolved into full covers of the tree in three

seasons.

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

DAVID ELLIOT

Lewis Carroll set his famous nonsense poems Jabberwocky (begun 1855) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) on the same fictional island leaving many unanswered questions of how the two were connected.

PIGTAILS THE PIRATE

Pigtails was completed while I held the Children’s Writing Fellowship at the Dunedin College of Education in 2001. The assistance I received from Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged. Pigtails The Pirate won the Picture book category at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2003.

HENRY’S MAP

Henry's Map Henry's Map Henry is a very organized sort of pig who decides to draw a map of his farm so that all the farm animals will

know where ever

DRAGON TANGLE

I first started drawing dragons during my time at Edinburgh Zoo, and used them as a vehicle to develop illustration techniques. Dragon Tangle started out as a Dragon’s Year Calendar based on the medieval ‘Book of Hours’ convention, where illustrations depict typical countryside activities associated with each month of the year.

HENRY’S STARS

One beautiful evening on the farm, Henry stares up at the sky. As he looks from star to star, they seem to form a picture. To Henry, it looks like a great big starry pig running across the sky and he can’t wait to show his discovery to the other farm animals.

DAVID ELLIOT

DAVID ELLIOT – Illustrator and author. I was born in 1952 in Ashburton , New Zealand, in the middle of the Canterbury plains where there wasn’t much going on but sheep and pine trees.

MAPS - DAVID ELLIOT

Maps I have a continuing love affair with maps in books and especially enjoy trying to bring a 3D quality to the fictional worlds created by

other writers.

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First Map: How James Cook Chartered Aotearoa New Zealand by Tessa Duder. It was a great privilege to be asked to work on Tessa Duder’s First Map, How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand. Tessa has done a wonderful job of recounting the events, misfortunes and accomplishments of Cook’s voyage in the Endeavour between August 1768 and July 1771 and the creation of his magnificent record

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I have been fascinated by The Hunting of the Snark for years and very nearly got a version accepted for trade publication in 1998 when I first began writing and illustrating full time. In 2006, Donald Kerr – through the Printer in Residence Progamme at the University of Otago Library – at last gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Tara Mcleod (printer), Inge Doesburg, Jenna Packer SYDNEY PENGUIN BOOKS Sydney and the Sea Monster. In 1979 I was lucky enough to spend 5 months working in Antarctica. Sydney and the Sea Monster began when ,years later , I revisited some notebook drawings I had made returning by sea from McMurdo Sound to New Zealand. Somewhere out in that vast black ocean we steamed past a desolate surf-battered needle of rock and suddenly the air and sea around our ship

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Jeffrey Kluger Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-land Boats This has got to have been one of my favourite books to work on. The story

has a strang

HENRY’S STARS

One beautiful evening on the farm, Henry stares up at the sky. As he looks from star to star, they seem to form a picture. To Henry, it looks like a great big starry pig running across the sky and he can’t wait to show his discovery to the other farm animals.

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It was a great privilege to be asked to illustrate Janet Frame’s only book for children. The story had been illustrated before, very beautifully, by the well known British illustrator, Robin Jacques.

JACK LASENBY

Jack Lasenby - Covers Aunt Effie's Ark Right from the start I've loved Jack’s writing, his surreal yet earthy imagination, his compassion,

his insist

JOHN FLANAGAN

John Flanagan. I’ve been really pleased to provide a map for one of John Flanagan’s books in his best selling Ranger’s Apprentice series (Ranger’s Apprentice: The Lost Stories) and also a spot drawing of ‘The Heron’ for his other popular series, The Brotherband Chronicles.

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