Le livre que Polly Allen, professeur émérite à l’université du Connecticut, a consacré à l’illustrateur Feodor Rojankovsky, vient enfin de paraître. Irving et Polly Allen collectionnent les livres d’enfants russes depuis de nombreuses années; la fille de Rojankovsky, Tatiana Rojankovsky-Koly, a collaboré à cette première biographie raisonnée de l’œuvre de son père. Le livre est accessible sous deux formats: au format papier, il ne comporte pas d’illustrations; au format électronique (lisible sur un ipad récent, sur un Kindle ou sur n’importe quelle tablette – ou ordinateur équipé d’une liseuse), il nous permet d’accéder aux très nombreux documents iconographiques qui illustrent cet ouvrage de référence.

The Children’s Books and Other Illustration Art
by Irving Allen and Polly Allen, with Tatiana Rojankovsky Koly, Wood Stork Press, 2014

Hardback (without illustrations), 331 pp. ISBN: 978-0-578-13558-8, $21.95. Available as “print on demand” from the following online distributors: Amazon, Barnes &Noble, AbeBooks, Books a Million and others

Illustrated e-book (with 54 illustrations), ISBN: 978-0-615-86762-5, $1.99. Available from the following e-book sellers: Amazon, Apple iBooks, Barnes &Noble, Kobo, and others

“This is the first and only book on the career and illustration art of Feodor Rojankovsky (1891-1970), the prolific Russian-American children’s artist and one of the most interesting personalities among modern children’s illustrators. While known primarily as the award-winning illustrator of 130 books for children, mainly in France and the United States, Rojankovsky throughout his long career steadily produced for grown-ups graphic art of nearly every kind. The first part of the book is a biography of the artist’s life and career. The remainder of the book is a catalogue raisonné of Rojankovsky’s published work; Part II, the children’s illustrations, and Part III, the various graphic art for adults. The book should serve as the standard international reference work and collector’s guide for this popular illustrator.”