Penguin Threads designed by Jillian Tamaki

Now before I begin, these beautiful Penguin Thread editions are not due to be released until October 2011 (I know, I can’t wait that long either!).

Illustrator and cartoonist Jillian Tamaki was commissioned by Penguin to design three embroidered covers for the following Penguin Classic Deluxe titles: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty, Frances Hodgsen Burnett’s The Secret Garden and Jane Austen’s Emma.

On her Sketchblog, Jillian sounds just as excited about this project as the rest of us are:

Penguin Classics! What a dream project. When I first did my Monster Quilt, I said I wouldn’t take commissions in embroidery… unless Penguin called me for a Penguin Classics cover. Sometimes you get what you wish for (times three).

Now. Take a deep breath… et voila!

Theres more!!

Penguin clothbound classics in time for Christmas!

I’m always banging on about the Penguin Classics clothbound editions, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, because they look the way ALL books should look. Check out these new additions to the collection, released today, and just in time for Christmas…

Happy 70th Anniversary Puffin!

If you’re a lover of pretty looking books like me, AND you’ve got a couple of grand to spare (NOT like me), then check these out:

Oliver Twist designed by artist Sir Peter Blake

Around the World in Eighty Days designed by architect David Adjaye