Sentence examples for book commission from inspiring English sources

The meeting, the start of a long, fruitful collaboration, led to Mr. Sendak's first children's book commission: illustrating "The Wonderful Farm," by Marcel Aymé, published in 1951.

The scholarship allowed me to write poems for a new book; commission other artists to create new work – including Shame by John Berkavitch and London Matter by Deanna Rodger; and to write and produce a poetry-infused play, Chef, which will transfer to Soho Theatre this summer.

The school year was lengthened, school attendance for children was mandated, and the legislature created a Text Book Commission to assist local school boards in adopting textbooks.

Review deadlines and book commissions shrank his creative space.

He gave numerous young artists, including Joan Walsh Anglund, their first book commissions.

Attendees of the G-8 summit will receive a book commissioned by Silvio Berlusconi, on the works of the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova.

"I had a kids' book commissioned and I told them I would like to do one for grown-ups.

Dr. Remini came to the office shortly before the publication of his 600-page tome "The House" (2006), a book commissioned by the chamber.

She is also writing a book, commissioned off the back of her savvy tweeting and based on her experiences in Hollywood.

The book, commissioned in 1948 by Ezra Pound, is a startlingly anti-Semitic fantasy of how a Jewish-led conspiracy of all-powerful bankers established the Federal Reserve in service of their plot to dominate the world.

On display was a single work of art: a painted manuscript of the "Hamzanama," a spectacular illustrated book commissioned by the sympathetic and notably tolerant Mughal emperor Akbar (1542-1605).