Maquettes
Ink and watercolour on card
The Moon and Farmer McPhee won the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards ‘Book of the Year’ in 2011.
This book was a collaboration between the wonderful Margaret Mahy and myself. Margaret generously agreed to wordsmith my story whilst I concentrated on trying to bring a third dimension to the illustrations. The maquettes here explore how die-cuts could depict:
- Farmer MacPhee walking through the cover, endpapers and title page, into his own story.
- Farmer MacPhee looking out of his window at the scene on the next page.
David Elliot and Margaret Mahy, The Moon and Farmer McPhee. Random House, 2010.