"The Art of Graeme Base" showcases the incredible talents of this much-loved writer and illustrator, those books Abrams has been publishing since 1985. Beginning with Base's own storybook childhood in England, we see how his imagination and artistic talents were fed by his family's love of music, literature and nature and how his talent was further enriched by travel, teachers, friends and his wife and their three children. From Base's earliest drawings, pop-up cards and homemade board games, through his years as a teenager and rock musician and through a quarter-century of published books, we learn about the artists, musicians, writers and humorists who inspired him, and witness the development of his own particular brand of genius.