This is such a beautifully presented book with striking print images and illustrated drawings. At first glance I wasn’t sure what this was going to be about, and with an interest in PSHE, I was drawn to the title ‘The Bluest of Blues’, thinking this may be a story with a message about moods or feelings. But, unless you are familiar with the name Anna Atkins, and her historical importance (and I have to admit I wasn’t!), the contents of this pretty book are a pleasant surprise. Anna Atkins is acknowledged to be one of the first women in the world to take a photograph, and one of the first people to publish a book of photographic image. After being given a camera in 1841, Anna was excited by this new process, but it was her introduction to Herschel’s discovery of cyanotype printing that sparked a passion for cyantography; the process of using chemicals that react to sunlight to dye paper and print images. In the book, the author’s own drawings and cyanotypes are combined with reproductions of Anna Atkins’ original work…