Bob Staake's Look! A Book! exclusive preview

Bob Staake has long been one of my favorite illustrators. He's done a lot of covers for the New Yorker, as well as a bunch of terrific kids books. His latest book, Look! A Book!, is filled with colorful two-page spreads, each loaded with dozens of seek-and-find objects. It's my favorite book of his so far. My seven-year-old daughter and I had a great time going through this visual treat.

As I've mentioned before, Bob does all of his illustration work using a pre-OS X version of the Macintosh operating system and Photoshop 3. He doesn't use a stylus, and instead does everything with a mouse. Here's a video of Bob's process - it's amazing.

After the jump, you can see two additional page spreads from the book.

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Previously:

Bob Staake's Struwwelpeter

The making of Bob Staake's New Yorker cover

Video of Bob Staake's unusual drawing process

The Donut Chef, by Bob Staake

The Orb of Chatham

• [cstatman]

  Look arrived yesterday/ Saul LOVES it, absolutely wonderful. thanks for the point

• [hughelectronic]

  In addition to creating some of the best kids’ books, Bob is also an excellent Facebook poster. I know, I know — that’s like saying someone is a good food eater, or tooth brusher. No, but seriously — this guy has elevated the FB status update to a goddam art form. “Friend” him yourself and see!

• [RadioSilence]

  I’m very impressed. seems he’s upgraded to OSX, but is still running Photoshop 3.

  http://twitter.com/#!/bobstaake/statuses/948868750
  @bobstaake
  “Let me clear up today’s rumor: I do NOT work in OS 7. I use OSX and run classic (9.0) in the background. Photoshop 3.0? Yes, STILL use that.”

• [ShawnBruce]

  His stuff just seems to get better and better. I love these spreads!

• [inkfumes]

  Thanks for posting this. I am going to show his video to my class which is currently learning Photoshop for the first time. I don’t think the kids understand me when I explain that back
  when I learned Photoshop there were no layers. They kind of go walleyed trying to comprehend.

• [cstatman]

  Mark, my 4 yr old son Saul has been enjoying Donut Chef and Red Lemon for the past 2.5 years. I will happily add this one to his library, thank you for the Staake pointer years ago

• [Jack]

  Using Photoshop CS5 (Crappy Shit x 5) and really miss 2.5.1 and 3.0.1. Those versions just worked.

• [Anonymous]

  Reminds me a lot of this artwork. http://www.jolicloud.com/jolibooks

• [kaiza]

  Looks great and reminds me of the Busytown books by Richard Scarry that I used to enjoy as a kid.