Helping you picture books

Picture Book Report posts original illustrations of passages from familiar novels. Each artist/blogger chooses a favorite tome to visualize.

These two beautiful images from the illustrations for The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy (rendered by John Martz of drawn.ca) are what originally caught my eye, and if you are a Hitchhikers’ fan you’ll immediately know the passages they correspond to.

Some of my other favorite images have been the illustrations of The Hobbit, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Tarzan of the Apes but not everything is genre fare – see One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest or the Grimm tale The Bremen Town Musicians.

Awesome blog concept, beautiful illustrations, and possibly a leisurely-paced book club – assuming you can read faster than the artist on each book can draw.

(found via more(ish) : meg’s scrapbook)