Joni: The Lyrical Life of Joni Mitchell
March 5th, 2020 by jules
Above is a peek into author-illustrator Selina Alko’s sketchbook as she was working on her newest picture book, Joni: The Lyrical Life of Joni Mitchell (Harper, February 2020).
I reviewed this one for BookPage — that review is here, if you’d like to read about the book — and below are more peeks into Selina’s sketchbook, a look at some early sketches, and a couple of final spreads from the book. I thank Selina for sharing.
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she turned the words into songs. The songs were like brushstrokes on a canvas,
saying things that were not only happy or sad but true.”
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JONI: THE LYRICAL LIFE OF JONI MITCHELL. Copyright © 2020 by Selina Alko. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, New York. All other images reproduced by permission of Selina Alko.
What an incredible book! Congrats, Selina!
Beautiful! Absolutely cannot wait to purchase it!!