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In a Publishers Weekly survey reported in 1999, 75 percent of the 300 booksellers who responded stated that the book jacket was the most important physical element of a book (Rawlinson 2000). Although the booksellers were concerned with the visual appeal of the book jacket, an earlier study by PW revealed that book buyers appreciate blurbs and plot summaries as well (Rawlinson 2000). Some libraries remove the book’s jacket during processing. The principal argument for this practice is that the image on the jacket is already on the support boards of the book.
The software available to illustrators is sophisticated and capable of rendering illustrations in a printed book that readers may assume were created in the traditional way. Illustrations that look as if they were created with oils or pastels may have actually been created on a computer (Gralley 2006). In Mr. otto Seibold, the first time the character touched paper was when the book was printed and bound. THE PUBLISHING PROCESS What happens to a picture book from initial idea to finished product, when it arrives at the library or bookstore?
During the 1950s the career of Marcia Brown—three-time winner of the Caldecott Medal and six-time Honor recipient—began to blossom. Brown is noted for her experimentation with numerous illustration techniques. For example, her medium for Once a Mouse (1961) was woodcut illustrations, while the medium she used for Shadow (1982) was collage illustrations. Both titles won the Caldecott Medal. This is also the decade that introduced Maurice Sendak. During his early career, Sendak illustrated other authors’ books.