Jan Pienkowski, illustrator

Take a look at some favourite images from the works of legendary children's illustrator Jan Pienkowski
  
  


Gallery Pienkowski: A Necklace of Raindrops
Taken from the very first book Pienkowski illustrated, Joan Aiken's A Necklace of Raindrops, this is the first time he used the 'silhouette' technique, blacking in the characters in the drawing but leaving the rest in colour. It's a style he says was inspired by papercuts he had seen as a child in Poland Photograph: Jan Pienkowski (Puffin Books)
Gallery Pienkowski: Meg character by Jan Pienkowski
Meg, the witch whose spells usually end in disaster, from the bestselling Meg & Mog series of books by Helen Nicoll Photograph: Jan Pienkowski (Puffin Books)
Gallery Pienkowski: Meg and Mog story by Jan Pienkowski
Another adventure for the accident-prone Meg Photograph: Jan Pienkowski (Puffin Books)
Gallery Pienkowski: Haunted House
Enter if you dare ... Pienkowski's pioneering pop-up book Haunted House, first published in 1980, is a maze of ghoulish delights, from the monster which pops up in the bathroom to the octopus doing the washing-up in the kitchen Photograph: Jan Pienkowski (Walker Books).
Gallery Pienkowski: Jan Pienkowski illustration
Pienkowski conveys passion in silhouette in this illustration from The Fairy Tales, as an owl looks on from above with beady eyes Photograph: Jan Pienkowski (Puffin Books)
Gallery Pienkowski: A First Christmas by Jan Pienkowski
A glowing nativity scene from Pieńkowski's The First Christmas, which brings the words of the King James Bible to life with a series of silhouetted illustrations. The illustrator is currently working on drawings for an abridged Old Testament Photograph: Jan Pienkowski (Puffin Books)
Gallery Pienkowski: Jan Pienkowski illustration from Nut Cracker
'Clara spotted a little figure with an over-large head. He was dressed in an hussar's jacket with gold buttons, shiny leather boots and an odd-looking wooden cloak sticking out of his back.' Nut Cracker, Pienkowski's latest book, opens on Christmas day, when Clara falls instantly in love with her gift of a nutcracker Photograph: Jan Pienkowski (Puffin Books)
Gallery Pienkowski: Jan Pienkowski's Nut Cracker
'And so they were married ... ' The multi-layered, laser-cut tableau at the end of Nut Cracker shows Clara and her Nutcracker, now King of the Marzipan Palace, flying into the night sky Photograph: Jan Pienkowski (Puffin Books)
 

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