The coveted and award-winning Penguin Threads series continues with
three more enchanting, beautifully sewn covers by a talented visual
artist
With paper and pen or needle and thread, storytelling has many
traditions. Penguin's award-winning art director Paul Buckley presents
Penguin Threads, a series of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions inspired
by the aesthetic of handmade crafts with specially commissioned cover
art. Jillian Tamaki's embroidered artwork appears on The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emma by Jane Austen, and Black Beauty by
Anna Sewell. This latest set features three beloved classics for both
adults and children with cover art by painter and illustrator Rachell
Sumpter. Sketched in a traditional illustrative manner, the final covers
are sculpt embossed and present full front and reverse hand-stitched
designs. Through story, style and texture, the Penguin Threads is an
exciting chapter in Penguin's long history of excellence in book design,
for true lovers of the book, design, and handcrafted beauty.
Meek little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and
petulant Toad. In the more than one hundred years since their first
appearance in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of
eccentricity, folly, and friendship. And their misadventures-in gypsy
caravans, stolen sports cars, and their beloved Wild Wood- continue to
capture readers' imaginations and warm their hearts long after they grow
up. The Wind in the Willows is a timeless tale of animal cunning and
human camaraderie.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of
classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700
titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works
throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the
series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and
notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
