Otto the Book Bear
by Katie Cleminson
Otto lives in a book and is happiest when his story is being read. But Otto has a secret, when no one is looking he walks right off of his book’s pages and explores his house. Until one day his family moves away and he is left behind.
Otto sets out to find a home and finds a magical place with rows and rows of books and lots of new book creature friends to show him around. And best of all, the library is full of readers, which makes Otto the happiest book bear of all.
This charming celebration of books and reading by Best New Illustrator Katie Cleminson comes with its very own Book Bear.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Children's Books
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Katie Cleminson
Katie Cleminson gained her foundation diploma in Art and Design at Falmouth College. She went on to study Illustration for Children's Publishing at the North Wales School of Art, where she graduated with a First in the summer of 2007.
Katie works with inks, charcoal and Photoshop and loves the work of Lane Smith and Jackson Pollock. She's drawn to nostalgic items like gramophones, typewriters, pipes and bowler hats, which sometimes turn up in her work.
In 2009 Katie won the Best Emerging Illustrator in the Booktrust Early Years Awards for Box of Tricks (Red Fox).She was chosen for a Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award in 2011.
Illustration technique
Katie sites Jackson Pollock as an inspiration and uses pipettes with ink to create her trademark splashes of colour across her illustrations. She created this technique when thinking about the best way to illustrate magic.
Katie furst draws her characters using charcoal, colour pencil or ink and creates her backgrounds in pastels and ink in contrasting colours. She also draws using pipettes which requires a lot of practice.
She prefers to draw in layers so she can be more experimental and move things around and it’s not such a problem if you make mistakes.
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Katie Cleminson
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Reading Age: 6+
Interest level: 3+
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