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CROWDS IN ART part 3 (part 2 | part 1)

lorraine christie / herikita con k (via behance) / aleksander vasin (via behance) / pawal kwiatkovski / elisa munso (via domestika) / monica tramos (via tumblr) / antonia gramsci / helen cottle / mouni feddag

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Agatha Christie by Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara. Illustrated by Elisa Munsó. Translated by Raquel Plitt

Age Recommendation: Early Primary Art Style: Black, white and red, stylised realism Topic/ Theme: Mysteries, biographic. Setting: Europe, the Middle East Series: Little People, Big Dreams

Rating: 5/5

Agatha Christie's Little People Big Dreams may be one of the best I've read to date. And that is purely down to the colouring, or lack thereof, in the illustrations. Adults are more than aware of what Agatha Christie is famed for writing murder mysteries. The art in this reflects that not in styling but in colouring, everything is black and white except for everything that can be red is from cars to flowers from cushions to blood. Every page does have some red on it. I really appreciate the other details as well, the names and birthdates in the graveyard reflecting the victims and publication dates in her novels. Look I did legitimately count the books on the last page I got 88, doing some googling I discovered she published 80. Let's give that leeway to those being for some of those translated editions. The dispensary in the WWI hospital is well done, I feel like it is a mix of the old and the new and it suits the way that knowledge in her adulthood. The end pages were once again not what I would have expected but so fitting for a woman that was attached to and reliant on her typewriter.

The text is done well it moves around the page, fitting where it does best away and from the darkest parts of the page. None of the blocks of text is extensive and does contain sometimes unusual words that may need explaining to young readers. But it is readable and sends a good message about following your passions. The book keeps an upbeat tone despite the obvious potential for it to maybe go dark. As always the photos and timeline included is helpful and span her life. As I said this is likely my favourite of this series to date.

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Stella here was the wife of the son of the Earl of Ulster with a very cool fur cape, and the lifestyle trait of Matriarch. I don't know how she acquired both items seeing as she is not a landed character, but it was still rather awesome to find her.

I married off my extended family's male scion as much as I could to nubile and young unmarried females with inheritable traits and backstories.

Svanhild Knudsdatter Estrid is the 17 year-old grand-daughter of King Svend of Denmark. Her character model is rather pretty even though she does not have the trait herself.

Elisa is an intelligent lowborn, with wheezing.

Malmfrid Holmfridsdotter af Munso is a hale drunkard, who has depression (melancholic).