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- Australia & NZ: 4th February 2025
- UK, USA & Canada: 11th August 2025
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Gustav Glows with Gold is a creative non-fiction book for children aged 4 – 10 years. Gustav Klimt, a famous Austrian artist, is fascinated by the power of glittering gold leaf to enhance the colours, patterns, and form of his artwork. Inspired by the beauty of Byzantine art and by his own father’s intricate work as a goldsmith, Gustav loved to use gold leaf in his paintings. Delicately thin sheets of gold leaf are always difficult to work with, any whisper of air and they take flight. Gustav’s studio is filled with glittering, glowing fragments of gold leaf, caught by the air, or by his breath, they settle on his clothes, hair, beard, and even on the fur of his many beloved studio cats. A shy man, Gustav wanted nothing other than people to love his glowing golden creations, and to be inspired by them, and they certainly were.
ISBN: 978-0-6454184-7-7
Illustrations from the Book:
About the Author: Kathy Creamer
Kathy is a children’s illustrator and writer who has been published by Oxford University Press, Reed International, Christmas Press, Second Look and other organisations.
She has an MA in Children’s Book Illustration from the renowned Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University in England.
Kathy has also run her own successful publishing company in the UK, where she published over eighteen picture books for a range of high net-worth private clients.
Having moved from Melbourne to Armidale, and with her husband Peter, Kathy set up Little Pink Dog Books Children’s Publishing to help new and aspiring children’s writers and illustrators. Kathy has stepped down from Little Pink Dog Books and is now focussing on her own artistic career.
Please visit Kathy’s Website and her Facebook page.
About the Illustrator: Patricia Ward
Being an only child, Patricia spent much of her time living in her imagination, bringing it to life through drawing and illustration. She loves exploring colour and playing with positive and negative spaces. Her work is vibrant and whimsical, with an underlying sense of a narrative. Patricia believes every illustration should tell a story, whether it is accompanied by text or not.
This will be Trish’s fourth Children’s Picture book with Little Pink Dog Books – The first being The Glint of Gold (2021) the second being Big Boss (2022) and most recently Monet Chases the Light (2023).
Please pay a visit to Trish’s website here.