Ron BROOKS<br/> <em>The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek</em> (1973) <!-- () --><br /> cover illustration for <i>The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek</i> by Jenny Wagner, published by Longman Young Books in association with Childerset, Melbourne, 1973<br /> pen and ink and watercolour on cardboard<br /> 28.8 x 30.7 cm (image) 50.1 x 46.2 cm (sheet)<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Gift of Albert Ullin OAM, 2014<br /> 2014.566<br /> © Ron Brooks <!--105914-->
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Making books – a love of language and art

Ron Brooks

Artist Ron Brooks discusses how he came to be an illustrator of children’s literature, having grown up without books himself, and his process of making books.

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