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-------------------- Jean & Mou-Sien Tseng  Lokken Millis   Elisa Kleven  Joseph Daniel Fiedler  Maria Christina Gonzalez  Daniel San Souci  --------------------		Illustration #1 From Fa Mulan Watercolor Enlargement, 68K Illustration #2 from Fa Mulan (Detail) Watercolor Full Image, 36K   Fa Mulan, story retold by Robert San Souci, illustrations by Jean and Mou-Sien Tseng.  Fa Mulan, the legendary Chinese heroine comes to life. When news breaks that one man from each family must join the Khan's army to fight the Tartars, Fa Mulan is distraught -- her father is too old and frail. Realizing that it is up to her to save her family from disgrace, she joins the Khan's army in her father's place, disguised as a man. But as she fulfills her dream of being a great warrior, Mulan realizes she must choose between this gallant role led in secret, or the life she left behind. Illustration #1 from Samson the Hot Tub Bear Watercolor and Oil Pastel Enlargement, 47K Illustration #2 from Samson the Hot Tub Bear (detail) Watercolor and Oil Pastel Full Image, 31K Samson the Hot Tub Bear was written by Wendy Tokuda and illustrated by Lokken Millis.  During the summer of 1994, a cinnamon-colored bear became a frequent vistor to the town of Monrovia at the edge of the mountains northeast of Los Angles. Nicknamed Samson by the residents in whose hot tubs he loved to soak, he earned a reputation as an avocado-loving voyeur who ambled throughout backyards and peered into picture windows. Samson eventually got into trouble with the law for raiding garbage cans and destroying fruit trees, and was captured and scheduled to be put to sleep the very next day. The bear became an overnight celebrity after a pair of local residents released to the media their home video of Samson lounging in their pool and hot tub. The public responded to the old bear's plight. This is a true story of how Samson was saved. Illustration #1 from A Monster in the House Collage Enlargement, 41K Illustration #2 from A Monster in the House Collage Enlargement, 31K A Monster in the House, story and illustrations by Elisa Kleven.  As a child melodramatically describes the roaring, drooling, spectacularly messy monster in her house, her awed new neighbor conjures up an appropriately monstrous image of the creature: in Kleven's painted, luxuriantly detailed collages, a tubby, peg-toothed giant covered in glued bits of blue, yellow, and orange yarn cuts swaths of chaos through magnificently cluttered rooms. [Page 2 of Children's Book Illustrators]   [Back to Top] The images on this and following pages are only a sampling of the full exhibit.

 

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