Listen to a Horn Book Podcast. Roger visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Frances Hodgson Burnett memorial fountain, and talks with children’s literature historian Leonard S. Marcus about Anne Carroll Moore and the Minders of Make-Believe. Comment at Read Roger.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Emily Gravett wins the Kate Greenaway Medal
http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/2008awards/
The judges can be seen talking about the Kate Greenaway shortlist here.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
The Mismatch of Technology and Picture Books
http://www.slate.com/id/2190586/slideshow/2190896/fs/0//entry/2190897/
("The homes we see in children's picture books—even books published in the current decade and set in the present—often seem conspicuously dated.")
("The homes we see in children's picture books—even books published in the current decade and set in the present—often seem conspicuously dated.")
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
The Wind in the Willows illustration competition
... is open to 7 to 12 year old residents of the UK or the Republic of Ireland. Entries accepted until Friday, July 25, 2008.
Click here for some cover-design tips from the illustrator (and judge) Mini Grey.
Click here for details of The Wind in the Willows illustration competition.
Click here for some cover-design tips from the illustrator (and judge) Mini Grey.
Click here for details of The Wind in the Willows illustration competition.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Tasha Tudor
August 28, 1915 – June 18, 2008
Tudor's lifestyle came from "nostalgia for a day and time that was more peaceful and slow," she said in 1991. When she went to town, her children "were very careful to walk a good 10 or 12 feet behind me so that they wouldn't be associated with . . . a rather different-looking woman."
More about Tasha Tudor's life and work here. A list of her titles can be seen here.
Thanks to Fuse #8.
Tudor's lifestyle came from "nostalgia for a day and time that was more peaceful and slow," she said in 1991. When she went to town, her children "were very careful to walk a good 10 or 12 feet behind me so that they wouldn't be associated with . . . a rather different-looking woman."
More about Tasha Tudor's life and work here. A list of her titles can be seen here.
Thanks to Fuse #8.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
The 2008 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards
for Excellence in Children’s Literature
for Excellence in Children’s Literature
cover illustration by Tricia Tusa
Picture Book Winner: At Night, by Jonathan Bean
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Here's a little movie about the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre (Central Park at 79th Street and the West Drive, just south of the Delacorte Theater)
Now playing:
Pippi through Thursday, June 26, 2008. Jack and The Beanstalk, opens on Monday, July 7, 2008.
Reservations are required. Tickets are $8/adults, $5/children. 212-988-9093
Now playing:
Pippi through Thursday, June 26, 2008. Jack and The Beanstalk, opens on Monday, July 7, 2008.
Reservations are required. Tickets are $8/adults, $5/children. 212-988-9093
Monday, June 16, 2008
“Goodnight Bush”
The manuscript— unsolicited and addressed simply to “Editor in Chief, Little, Brown” — arrived at its destination in a clear envelope, “which was very clever,” said Geoff Shandler, the Little, Brown editor in chief who received the package. “Without opening it, I could see some of the cover image they had designed.”
John Shelley
Artist in Residence - Daiwa Foundation Japan House
13/14 Cornwall Terrace London NW1 4QP
(with Satoshi Kitamura)
13/14 Cornwall Terrace London NW1 4QP
(with Satoshi Kitamura)
Friday, June 13, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Charley Harper -- 1961 biology book
Uploaded on June 5, 2008 by Crafty Dogma
Thanks to Bibi (http://www.mento.info/bibi/tags/children)
More about Charley Harper here.
Philip Pullman on "age-guidance"
A month or so ago I had a letter from each of my publishers telling me that they had commissioned some research and that, as a result of the findings, they were going to place an age-guidance figure on all their books, saying that this one was for children of 9+, that one for 7+, and so on.
My immediate response was to say, as vigorously as I could, "Not on my books, you're not."
My immediate response was to say, as vigorously as I could, "Not on my books, you're not."
Monday, June 09, 2008
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Today and Tomorrow
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is proud to announce MoCCA Art Festival 2008, June 7th-8th, at the historic Puck Building in lower Manhattan.
Hours: 11:00am - 6:00pm Admission is $10 each day / $15 weekend pass (weekend pass only $10 for MoCCA members) Meet comics and cartoon artists! Four full ballrooms of cartoonists and publishers! Three days of entertaining and educational panel sessions! For more about this year's exhibitors, click here. For a complete schedule of this year's programming and panels, click here. For a complete schedule of this year's Featured Artist Sketch Table, click here.
2008 MoCCA Art Festival Poster - download here - PDF File
2008 MoCCA Art Festival Table Layout - download here - PDF File
Hours: 11:00am - 6:00pm Admission is $10 each day / $15 weekend pass (weekend pass only $10 for MoCCA members) Meet comics and cartoon artists! Four full ballrooms of cartoonists and publishers! Three days of entertaining and educational panel sessions! For more about this year's exhibitors, click here. For a complete schedule of this year's programming and panels, click here. For a complete schedule of this year's Featured Artist Sketch Table, click here.
2008 MoCCA Art Festival Poster - download here - PDF File
2008 MoCCA Art Festival Table Layout - download here - PDF File
Friday, June 06, 2008
Here's a little story
to cool you off and calm you down --POLAR BEAR NIGHT, by Lauren Thompson. Illustraions by Stephen Savage.
Below is Patrick McDonnell's homage to Polar Bear Night from his weekly strip, Mutts.
Below is Patrick McDonnell's homage to Polar Bear Night from his weekly strip, Mutts.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Comic Book Slide Show
Jack Kirby, whose life and work are getting another look with the “Fourth World Omnibus” and “Kirby: King of Comics,” jumped from Marvel to DC Comics and from familiar heroes to those with a more far-out sensibility.
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
A Day with Dad
illustrations by Eva Eriksson
This book made me weepy. Here's Paula's review: http://pinkpicks.blogspot.com/2008/05/day-with-dad-by-bo-r-holmberg.html
Sunday, June 01, 2008
"Lorena Siminovich (born in Buenos Aires) is a San Francisco based artist, designer and illustrator. With a background in graphic design, and an extensive career as an art director, she became interested in design for children in 2001..."
There's a Tear In My Near Beer
Laura Levine's illustrations are fun. How "self-taught" she is, I really can't say.
Laura's style reminds me of Lynda Barry's Music Notebook, in the back of THE GOOD TIMES ARE KILLING ME (1988). Below is Lynda's painting of Jimmie Rodgers.
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