The book also comes in a lovely dark blue slipcase, so it feels like opening a nice little surprise every time you pull it off the shelf. That’s right, the phenomenal Studio Ghibli film you’ve known and loved all these years? It was based on a book! If you didn’t know, now you know.Īnyway, Harel and the Folio Society have breathed new life into this modern classic, adding six spectacular color illustrations and 21 black-and-white ones that open each chapter, along with an almost Harry Potter-esque cover design on the front and back. This time, I’ll point your attention to their rendition of Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, illustrated by Marie-Alice Harel. The books they make are truly stunning objects crafted with care and they deserve prominence on your bookshelf. Visit the House of Illustration website to find out more and submit your entry.It’s been a while since I last wrote about The Folio Society, the London-based group that takes beloved works of literature and produces beautifully illustrated editions of them. This year entrants must submit three illustrations for a new collection of Love Poems selected and edited by Imtiaz Dharker. The Book Illustration Competition 2020 is now open for entries until 17 January 2020. ‘I’m really excited to see the response to our three love poems for this year’s competition – it will be wonderful to see how the entrants capture emotion and passion in their illustrations.’ Her illustrations are interwoven with threads of fairy tale and sit perfectly against the text. She brought such energy and imagination to the commission.
I still can’t believe it to be honest – now I have to think of new dreams and new goals! It’s really been a dream come true.’įolio Art Director Sheri says: ‘It was an absolute pleasure to work with Marie-Alice on Howl’s Moving Castle. ‘I’ve been a great admirer of Folio Society books for a while. I enjoy having bits of the artwork break out of the frame – it’s like someone pulling your sleeve a bit: ‘Look! The world I get to illustrate goes on out of what you can see.’ It’s a little incentive for the viewer to keep imagining things.
‘ Howl’s Moving Castle is great to illustrate because there are so many visual elements. ‘I read the book in French first before seeing the movie, and then read it again for the competition and it was like rediscovering it.
‘When I found out about the subject for this year’s Folio Society Competition, I knew I just had to do it,’ says Marie-Alice.
In this blog, Marie-Alice talks through her illustrations for the finished Folio edition. After more than 500 entries from 47 countries, Marie-Alice Harel won the competition with her beautiful fairy-tale inspired artwork. We were so excited to have Diana Wynne Jones’s much-loved Howl’s Moving Castle as the subject for the Book Illustration Competition 2019.
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