Warwick Hutton

Website for the Illustrator and Artist Warwick Hutton.

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Private View - School of Art. Cambridge.  Editor and Co-editor (Warwick Hutton) Published by Cambridge Print Editions

1982-1989. Private View of the Visual Arts with Poetry Supplement from the Cambridge School of Art. Featured articals by artists like: Hutton, Lynton Lamb, Walter Hoyle, Julian Trevelyan and Patrick Heron.

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Cats Free and Familiar - Robert Leach (Author) Warwick Hutton (Illustrator) Published by The Keepsake Press

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Throwaway Lines - Gavin Ewart (Author) Warwick Hutton (Illustrator) Published by The Keepsake Press

Poems printed by The Keepsake Press, with linocuts by Warwick Hutton.

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Rider and Horse - Martin Booth (Author) Warwick Hutton (Illustrator) Published by The Keepsake Press

Poems printed by The Keepsake Press, with woodcut engravings by Warwick Hutton.

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Flesh of His Flesh - Florence Elon (Author) Warwick Hutton (Illustrator) Published by The Keepsake Press

Poems printed by The Keepsake Press, with line drawings from Warwick Hutton.

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Waterways of the Fens - Peter Eden (Author) Warwick Hutton (Illustrator) Published by Cambridge University Press

Waterways of the Fens, an essay on the commercial archaeology of the Cambridge fenland region. Part of the Cambridge University Press Christmas book series in a numbered edition of 500 produced for private circulation.

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Making Woodcuts (A Scopas Handbook) - By Warwick Hutton (Author) Warwick Hutton (Illustrator) Published by St. Martin's Press, Macmillan

Warwick Hutton’s book presents both a history of the craft and a complete step by step guide to making woodcuts, beginning with the selection of materials and tools, the techniques of carving and printing the design, and ending with the framing or mounting of the finished print. The emphasis throughout is informal and practical – the author drawing on extensive experience in the craft to give the reader a wealth of informative suggestions. Fully illustrated including examples of the author’s own work, this handbook will interest beginners and experts alike.

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Moses in the Bulrushes - Warwick Hutton (Author) Warwick Hutton (Illustrator) Published by Margaret K. McElderry

Retells the Old Testament story of how the baby Moses was saved from death by the Pharoah's daughter.

Reviews:

"Hutton's typically limpid artwork heightens the biblical tale of the finding and raising of Moses. - Reviewed by Publishers Weekly 02/03/1992"

In Moses in the Bulrushes, using some 20 delicate expressive watercolor drawings, Mr. Hutton has told the ancient story with a degree of tenderness not often seen in contemporary work. . . From: Summer Reading. - Published: New York Times. June 1, 1986""

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To Sleep - By James Sage (Author) Warwick Hutton (Illustrator) Published by Margaret K. McElderry

It's time sleep,  says the Mother, and her child replies. But I am not tired.  So begins a quiet bedtime conversation between a mother and her child. Questions followed by gentle answers gradually carry the child into an ever-larger twilight world and a last into the starry sky itself. 

Reviews:

"A little boy, resisting sleep, chats with his mother and contemplates the end of the day as the fine watercolor illustrations move beyond his room and into the realm of sleep. - New York Times Children's Book Review. Published: New York Times. February 10, 1991"

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Tam Lin - By Susan Cooper (Author) Warwick Hutton (Illustrator) Published by Margaret K. McElderry

Notable Children's Book, Social Studies, NCSS/CBC

Margaret, daughter of the king of Scotland, longs for adventure. Tired of setting a good example for all the other young girls - and of waiting to be married - Margaret flings down her embroidery one day and runs out of the castle, over the fields to Carterhays, a wood that is supposedly haunted by Tam Lin, an Elfin knight. There, indeed, she meets Tam Lin, who is remarkably handsome. When she learns his story - that he is human, not Elfin at all, and was stolen as a baby by the Elfin Queen - she determines to help break the enchantment that holds him. Courageous and steadfast throughout one fearful night, Margaret defeats each dangerous and dramatic attempt by the Elfin Queen to keep Tam Lin. And when the morning sun rises, Margaret and Tam Lin ride together across the green fields of Scotland, back to the castle.

Reviews:

Margaret, daughter of the king of Scotland, longs for adventure. Tired of setting a good example for all the other young girls -- and of waiting to be married -- Margaret flings down her embroidery one day and runs out of the castle, over the fields to Carterhays, a wood that is supposedly haunted by Tam Lin, an Elfin knight. There, indeed, she meets Tam Lin, who is remarkably handsome. When she learns his story -- that he is human, not Elfin at all, and was stolen as a baby by the Elfin Queen -- she determines to help break the enchantment that holds him. Courageous and steadfast throughout one fearful night, Margaret defeats each dangerous and dramatic attempt by the Elfin Queen to keep Tam Lin. And when the morning sun rises, Margaret and Tam Lin ride together across the green fields of Scotland, back to the castle. 

With this Scottish ballad, these collaborators present the third episode of their Celtic trilogy, following The Selkie Girl and The Silver Cow . In Cooper's able hands, the story of how Margaret, a fiery-spirited Scottish princess, saves Tam Lin, a handsome young knight, from the clutches of the Elfin Queen, is molded into captivating shape. Cooper (The Dark is Rising sequence) paces the tale well, deftly building to the climactic, magical struggle between Margaret and the Elfin Queen in which Margaret's tenacity--much bemoaned by all the ladies in the castle--carries the day. Unfortunately, Hutton's watercolors are not on a par with Cooper's superb prose. His images here are less distinct than usual, the lines of the figures are awkward and their faces are nondescript. Compared to the dramatic, boldly defined paintings of Charles Mikolaycak in Jane Yolen's recent retelling, this is bland stuff indeed. Even so, the stirring text makes this version a good choice for reading aloud. - Reviewed by Publishers Weekly 03/04/1991 

Together again: the formidable Cooper and Hutton complete their Celtic trilogy that began with The Silver Cow (Atheneum, 1983). This third is from the ballad and story in which feisty Princess Margaret (usually Burd Janet or Jennet MacKenzie in other tellings) saves Tam Lin from the elfin queen. Hutton's masterful watercolors are dreamy and romantic, slightly more muted than in the companion volumes. The timing is unfortunate. This follows fast on the heels of the Yolen/Mikolaycak edition (HBJ, 1990), and his illustrations are vivid and wild; Hutton's are typically subtle. Mikolaycak's tartans are invented, while Hutton's Scots sport no plaid at all--defensible since these are lowlanders and there's some controversy as to who wore tartans and when, but unlike the Yolen edition, there are no notes. Also, when Cooper has Margaret change for the banquet, Hutton dresses her in the same peasant jumper and blouse she has worn and will wear for the entire book. Yolen's rich folk-style telling is predominately narrative and gives background, while Cooper's is alive with dialogue and offers no explanations. Both would be excellent additions to any folklore collection, but if choice is imperative, Yolen and Mikolaycak might win the children. - Helen Gregory. From School Library Journal.

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The Cricket Warrior: A Chinese Tale - Margaret Chang (Author) Warwick Hutton (Illustrator) Published by Margaret K. McElderry

In order to save his family, a Chinese boy turns into a fighting cricket and becomes the emperor's champion.

Reviews:

"When Cheng Ming and his son, Wei nian, capture a stout cricket, it looks as though they may be able to save their failing farm: the insect will serve as their overdue tax to the emperor, who loves cricket fights. Wei nian's curiosity gets the better of him, however, and, when he tries to get a better look at the cricket, it escapes. Desperate to make amends, Wei nian says yes when a mysterious old man asks him if he would like to take the cricket's place. Soon a scrawny but spirited red cricket becomes court champion. The Changs' (In the Eye of War) dynamic retelling of this tale, which was first recorded in the 17th century, emphasizes Wei nian's concern with honor, the humor of his role as underdog (facing his first cricket opponent, he "waved [his] antennae, trying to look fierce'') and the strength of the familial bond: although Cheng Ming has received riches for his cricket and Wei nian as cricket has garnered fame, both are truly happy only when they are reunited. Hutton (Persephone) evokes a memorable Chinese landscape, serene and seemingly timeless under an inky moonlit sky. His delicate lines and luminiscent washes capture the feistiness of the red cricket as well as the magic attending the transformations that frame the tale. - Reviewed by Publishers Weekly 08/29/1994"

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Noah and the Great Flood - Warwick Hutton (Author) Warwick Hutton (Illustrator) Published by Margaret K. McElderry

An interpretation of the familiar Bible story using text based on the King James version, vividly illustrated by Hutton. 

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Adam And Eve - The Bible Story - Warwick Hutton (Author) Warwick Hutton (Illustrator) Published by Margaret K. McElderry

The King James version of the Bible story has inspired this distinguished artist's luminous watercolor paintings in a picture book for all ages. A book of timeless wonder and splender that makes an awesome story. Full-color illustrations.

Reviews:

"Warwick Hutton used another approach in his ''Adam and Eve: The Bible Story.'' His beautiful Blakean illustrations enrich the pleasure of the language of the text and will, I think, encourage children to go poking in the original for more.

Whatever reasons prompt you to browse among the Bible stories on behalf of your chosen child, you can only feel that you have given him or her a shining gift by presenting either or both of these volumes. - By Mary Gordon. From: The Word for Children. Published: New York Times. November 8, 1987"

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The Silver Cow -  Susan Cooper (Author) Warwick Hutton (Illustrator) Published by Margaret K. McElderry

ALA Notable Children's Book IRA Teacher's Choice Booklist Editor's Choice Parents' Choice Award

From Wales comes this tale of young Huw, whose lilting harp music enchants the Tylwyth Teg, the magic people of Bearded Lake. Their gift of a silver cow is misused by Huw’s greedy father until the day the Tylwyth Teg seek revenge and Huw gains his freedom.

Reviews:

"THE SILVER COW, A Welsh Tale. Retold by Susan Cooper. Illustrated by Warwick Hutton. Unpaged. New York: Atheneum/Margaret K. McElderry. 

''High in the green hills of Wales'' there is a lake fringed with white water-lilies, called Llyn Barfog. There is magic in the lake and a story behind the lilies and, as in any fine picture book, the author and artist tell it together.

''Gwilym Hughes ... a man with a heart as small and mean as his beady black eyes'' keeps his young son Huw tending cattle. Huw is not permitted schooling, nor is he allowed to play his beloved harp, but he does play it when his father is not within earshot, and the Tylwyth Teg who live in the lake listen. They are the magic people of Wales and they so relish Huw's music that they send him the gift of a silver cow from the depths of the lake.

Over the passing years this magical creature mates with Gwilym's cattle, producing a herd of wonderful silver cows that makes him a rich man. But when the milk of the gift cow stops and the still greedy Gwilym decides to slaughter her, a voice from Llyn Barfog calls the silver flock home. Back into the lake they go and where each disappears a water-lily blooms to mark the place.

Warwick Hutton's luminous paintings cast colored light and shadow on Susan Cooper's well-told tale. Mr. Hutton, one of those rare illustrators who draws the human figure with ease, brushes a subtle magic into bucolic scenes. When the silver herd, responding to the cry of the Tylwyth Teg, slips beneath blue waters, there is a quiet so ominous it can almost be seen. Carried across a double page, this picture would have better achieved the visual crescendo it deserves. Another detail worthy of correction: Gwilym's costume, as illustrated, does not match the author's description. These minor flaws are noted simply to underline how close Miss Cooper and Mr. Hutton have come to a perfect collaboration. - By Karla Kuskin. Published: New York Times. April 17, 1983"

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Jonah and the Great Fish - Warwick Hutton (Author) Warwick Hutton (Illustrator) Published by Margaret K. McElderry

Winner - 1984 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Picture Books Winner Nominated - 1984 New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books

Reviews:

JONAH AND THE GREAT FISH ON the Day of Atonement, the congregation reads from the Book of Jonah. They cry out from the belly of the great fish to the One who may hear them, to see and deliver them. In ''Moby Dick,'' Father Mapple preaches the sermon on Jonah, a sailor of weak faith overtaken by his God. For the children of Walt Disney, Jonah is transformed into Pinocchio, the wooden puppet who would be a child, who lies and is swallowed by a whale.

Warwick Hutton retells the story of ''Jonah and the Great Fish'' through 15 watercolors of startling resonance, texture and conviction. A spare text, tagged from the first three of the four chapters of the prophetic book, links the pictures into a narrative.

Jonah gets the call in a Moorish pavilion. Framed by pillars, attended by three creatures of dry land - a camel, a serpent and a lizard - the prophet points a finger at his breast and seems to ask, ''Who, me?'' Startled, he flees with his shadow before him down to the coast, to the port of Joppa (now Jaffa, in Israel), to a calm sea and sky. From the stone pier, he boards a lateen-rigged freighter bound for Tarshis, that is, Spain.

At sea, a storm blows up from out of the blue. The black squall, heralded by a great wave worthy of Hokusai, drives the heavy-laden ship before it. Porpoises, gulls and small fry attend as the storm engulfs boat and sky. The desperate sailors jettison the cargo; the lightened ship, sprit and eye, rides the foam of the purple crest like some great fish.

Two seagulls, at their ease, watch the sailors draw lots to find who has caused the storm. It is Jonah. He stands in the darkness, and commands the sailors to throw him overboard. As the spars break and the oars wash away, the ship turns her beam to the blast. At the last, the sailors cast the prophet into the water.

As Jonah plummets headlong into the deep, calm returns from the right; below, the form of the great fish materializes in the colors of stormy water. An eel, an octopus, a shadowy shark and a couple of crabs witness the prophet's entry into the great fish's toothed jaws.

The belly of the fish is like an arched tunnel with ribs for vaults. The floor is a carpet of fish, big fish swallowing smaller swallowing smaller still. Lying on his stomach atop a large fish with his ankles crossed so they resemble a fishtail, Jonah ponders this revelation of the natural order.

As the Lord can see and hear Jonah's prayer from the belly of the fish, as He could see the great fish even in the storm's murk, so can we. And as Jonah surfs out of the beast's belly on a surge of fish and vomit, one can almost smell the stink disperse in the shore breeze. Jonah warms and dries himself beside a fire.

Mr. Hutton's watercolors, vivid with sea tang, storm and dread, with human activity and the sublime, paint a tale immediate and plausible. It is also faithful to the Scripture. This is Jonah and the Great Fish, not Jonah and the Whale, the folk version. Such fidelity lends an authority to this slim book that will draw in readers of any age or persuasion. All will appreciate the excellent design, printing and binding. And few will be able to overlook that the city of Niniveh, twice named on the penultimate spread, is once misspelled. That so much thought and care should be undercut by an editor's slip is certainly a shame, and may be a moral, but it is not, I think, a carp. - By Laurance Wieder, a poet and the editor of Brightwaters Press, taught Bible and ancient authors at Cornell University. Published: New York Times. April 22, 1984

JONAH AND THE GREAT WHALE, retold and illustrated by Warwick Hutton (McElderry/ Atheneum, $12.95). The familiar biblical tale done in wonderfully dramatic watercolors. The very softness of the hues and the subtlety of the drawings make all the more awesome the magnitude of both God's wrath and the great fish's belly. - By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. Published: New York Times. December 4, 1984

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Sleeping Beauty - Warwick Hutton (Author) Warwick Hutton (Illustrator) Published by Margaret K. McElderry

When the king and queen are finally blessed with a daughter, they host a celebration for all in the castle. After the good fairies make a wish for the princess, the bad fairy appears and wishes the girl will prick herself on a spinning wheel and die. Luckily, the good fairy can still make a wish, which she uses to make sure the princess won't die but will instead sleep for 100 years. And so it happens until a prince arrives at the castle.

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The Selkie Girl - By Susan Cooper (Author) Warwick Hutton (Illustrator) Published by Margaret K. McElderry

Horn Book Honor List citation, 1987 Notable Children's Book, Social Studies, NCSS/CBC

A retelling of the ancient legend from the coasts and islands of Scotland and Ireland in which a man falls in love with a beautiful seal girl and forces her to live on land and be his bride.

This ancient tale from Ireland and Scotland tells of the deep longing for home of the wild Selkie maiden who is forced to live on land with the man who loves her. When she finds the sealskin he has hidden from her, she is free, and must leave their beloved children on land to rejoin her family in the sea.

Review:

"The illustrious author and artist have created a haunting version of the Scottish folktale about the selkie. Newbery Medalist Cooper tells the story of a man who falls in love with a woman; she becomes a seal as she swims away. A year later, he steals her sealskin so she cannot leave and makes her his bride. The tale focuses on the longing of the selkie, Mairi, a "wild creature" who goes "back to the wild, in the end." When Mairi accidentally finds out where her husband hid her sealskin, she tells her children she must leave them because she also has children in the sea. Her daughter understands, saying, "You must go to them. It's their turn." The lyrical text weaves a tale of sweeping dimension; this is storytelling at its finest. Particularly lovely are Hutton's sensitive and muted watercolors, which successfully capture the mood evoked by the book's opening and closing sentence: "The islands rise green out of the sea, where the waves roam over the grey rocks, and strange things may happen there."  - Published: Publishers Weekly, Reed Business Information, Inc. 1986."

Kindergarten-Grade 3 Both Mordicai Gerstein (The Seal Mother Dial, 1986) and Susan Cooper have retold the folktale of the Selkie who is forced to live among mortals. In Cooper's version, Donallan falls in love with one of three beautiful naked selkie-maidens that he sees sitting on the rocks. Stealing her sealskin so that she cannot return to the sea, he marries her. Although she bears his five children, whom she loves deeply, she longs for her home and her family in the sea. At last she learns where her skin is hidden and, putting it on, dives joyously into the waves. But every year, Donallan and his children go down to the sea and when they return, there is "a look on their faces like sunlight." Cooper retells this ancient folktale from the coastal regions of Ireland and Scotland in a simple, direct storybook style, which, while lacking some of the exquisite beauty and flowing language of an Eva LaGalliene, still captures enough of the essence to appeal to young readers. Hutton's watercolors match and extend Cooper's narrative in the best traditional "picture story book" fashion, and if both fall slightly short of the haunting and timeless quality possible in such a tale, they still create a story to capture and hold the young. Yet Gerstein's book, grounded in familial love, is the more appealing version. - By: Constance A. Mellon, Published: School Library Journal. Reed Business Information, Inc. 1968.