Martin Salisbury is Professor of Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art, where he leads the renowned MA Children's Book Illustration programme. He has previously chaired the international jury at the Bologna Children's Book Fair and been a member of the jury at the Global Illustration Awards in China. His books include Children's Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling (2012), The Illustrated Dust Jacket: 1920-1970 (2017, Thames & Hudson) and Miroslav Sasek in the Illustrators series (2021, Thames & Hudson).
'The basic principles of line, tone, composi tion, structure, perspective, and color are explored with ample examples, from sketches to their final printed illustrations' - Library Journal