We Heart Children's Book Illustrator Anna Walker

We are delighted to share with you a very special video we stumbled upon while indulging in the pages of Art by Wiley blog. We just adore Anna Walker's sweet as pie illustrations that adorn the pages of some of our favourite children's books, including the I Love Ollie series, of which the Bloom household has several. She's even made a guest appearance at Bloom designing the cover of 'Pure Harmony', a compilation CD we put together many moons ago. 

This video created by Nick Rieve and The White Tree gives us a little glimpse into Anna's creative world. We love that Anna seems just as sweet and quirky as her drawings are!

On Our Bookshelf: Penguin's Great Food Series

We've fallen head over heels for Penguin's Great Food Series, a collection of 20 volumes with excerpts from 'the finest food writing in the past 400 years'.

Not only does the collection share some beautiful food history and recipes from the past four centuries, but each book boasts some seriously covetable cover art. Clearly, Penguin knows the way to our hearts is through our stomachs and our design-hungry eyes.

We're imagining the pretty colour blocked spines sitting quite comfortably in our kitchen!