Name: Lara Cain Gray - The Grown Up's Guide to Picture Books
Start: 2024-09-11T18:30:00+10:00
Location: 193 Boundary Street, West End, West End, QLD, Australia, Queensland 4101

Lara Cain Gray - The Grown Up's Guide to Picture Books

Join us for the launch of Lara Cain Gray's The Grown-Up's Guide to Picture Books.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Grown-Up’s Guide to Picture Books is an illustrated guide for adults who seek a greater appreciation of the stories we too often deem to be just for kids. Specialist librarian, Dr Lara Cain Gray, encourages us to take a fresh look at this deceptively simple format, from the psychological benefits of using animals as characters, to the socio-cultural connotations of food imagery, and the crucial role of understanding pictures in our increasingly visual media landscape.
With extraordinary illustrations by Lorena Carrington and Timothy Ide, this is your opportunity to reconnect with the books you loved as a child and find new ways to explore them with the young people in your life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr Lara Cain Gray is a writer, librarian and storytelling advocate based in Brisbane, Australia. She has proudly championed the creative industries as the Australia and New Zealand Curator at the British Library, Curator of Cultures and Histories at Queensland Museum, and in a range of research and teaching roles in Australia and the UK.
She is currently Head of Acquisitions at nonprofit publisher Library For All. Lara has reviewed children's books for over 10 years in academic and popular publications, including her long running blog. She reads every day and will NEVER be too old for picture books.