Motivated by an ancient legend of a golden snail, Wilbur sets sail for the Ends of the Earth to find—and finally liberate—this creature in Graeme Base’s The Legend of the Golden Snail, just out from ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It's taken Australian illustrator Graeme Base eight "agonising" years to bring the cast of his ...

There’s a seductive air of mystery to Graeme Base’s bayside pad. The red-brick frontage reveals nothing but has an understated gothic countenance, like a particularly restrained Masonic temple. It’s ...

TWENTY-six years ago, an alphabet book gloriously illustrated with animals turned what was a hobby for Graeme Base into avocation. Animalia went on to sell more than three million copies and set the ...

In Base’s (Little Elephants) fable, four boastful animals discover they are not as virtuous as they thought they were. The Angkor Wat setting, luxuriously drafted and colored, supplies a bower of ...

Back then, a small boy, afraid of monsters under his bed, wrote a little book called A Field Guide to Monsters of the World. The story was written on lined paper with coloured pencils and stapled ...

Graeme Base is an Australian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1958. Graeme Base's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices of up to 12,248 USD. What is Graeme ...

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Base says he was “absolutely thrilled to pieces” to learn he had been made a Member of the Order of Australia “for significant service to children’s literature as an ­author and illustrator”. Having ...

Readers of all ages love the astute alliteration and whimsical worlds created by Graeme Base. ILLUSTRATOR extraordinaire, author, composer, musician, singer, playwright, television producer: Graeme ...

STRUGGLING with his eyesight and developing RSI (repetitive strain injury) in his wrist, world renowned artistic author Graeme Base thanks advances in technology for allowing him to keep producing his ...

There’s a seductive air of mystery to Graeme Base’s bayside pad. The red-brick frontage reveals nothing but has an understated gothic countenance, like a particularly restrained Masonic temple. It’s ...