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More voting news via Fuse:

All submissions to the Top 100 Picture Books Poll end tonight at midnight.
(See the librarians at The Ferguson Library for their suggestions.)

Bart's Blackboard

Past Simpson opening blackboards: "No one cares what my definition of 'is' is," "Spitwads are not free speech." (from the-simpsons-mocks-the-ban)

Author and Illustrator Q&A: Matthew Cordell and James Preller

(thanks again to 7 impossible things)

7 Kicks!

Jules (Julie Danielson) at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast created a beautiful profile of my work. How fantastic to be in such great company. Thanks, Jules!

THANKS, JULES!
The 7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast curators always do an amazing job.

illustration by Bill Mayer (from dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com)

I stumbled on this site today. It's reminiscent of Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

Reviews from the

Westchester Library System

slideshow

Nicole Mitchell’s Zoologic

(thanks to drawn)

(click on pictures for a small slideshow)
Two Kinds of Pie

Teenagers, past and future

jepg from dc.wikia.com/wiki/Image: Adventure_Comics_

and the cover of Teenagers from the Future: Essays on the Legion of Super-Heroes

Chunky, awkward, choppy, sketchy, wobbly, clumsy, and spontaneous

The masterly Matthew Cordell.

Illustrations from "Jimmy Potter Buys a Lollipop"

by Lennart Hellsing, illustrated by Stig Lindberg

jpegs from miekewillems.blogspot.com and theinvisibleagent.wordpress.com. More design by Lindberg here.

Calvin the capitalist (thanks to jamespreller.com)

The nuts and bolts of animation

at michaelspornanimation.com. (More nuts and bolts here, in a post from the Library of Congress .)

Hardie Gramatky (prints for sale)

Listen to Daniel Pinkwater and Scott Simon read from the restored edition of Little Toot.

More Maira

The Newest Medium:

Illustrating with Save and Undo
(From the November/December 2000 issue of The Horn Book Magazine)

Check out Lauren Castillo's beautiful portfolio and Etsy shop!

cross-reference

Picture Book selection made easy, thanks to ChoiceBooks. (Thanks too, to A Fuse #8 Production - Blog on School Library Journal)

Don't taz me bro!

From an actual Archie comic. (thanks Betsy!)

Illustration by David Small from THAT BOOK WOMAN, by Heather Henson

The "Book Women" of Eastern Kentucky: W.P.A.'s Pack Horse Librarians (photo from the KDLA, WPA Photographic Collection)

Warning for the menopausal librarian: If you sometimes find yourself crying in front of your storytime audience, you must read THAT BOOK WOMAN a couple of times to yourself before reading it at storytime.

Slideshow

mural by Christoph Niemann

A foundation has built colorful new libraries in public schools, luring well-known artists and illustrators to create works for their walls.

visit

David Weidman

Sesame Workshop is cutting about one-fifth of its work force

(On a happier note, see Elmo talk to children's book author Ricky Gervais here.)

The Humanities and Social Sciences Library

Sometimes I use this blog as a place to stash pictures and information that I find too overwhelming to take in all at once. It's like a garage, only it's filled with amazing stuff instead of broken bikes and deflated soccer balls.

Mad Money

In a parody of a Slumdog Millionaire ad, Mad Magazine plans to spoof Bernie Madoff. (info and jpeg from walletpop.com)

Can Jim Cramer be far behind?

Children's Wallpapers and Books On view:

October 3, 2008–April 5, 2009
http://www.cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS/wallstories/

And through March 28th -- Illustrators 51: Advertising, Institutional, and Uncommissioned

Picture books/excelsiorfile.blogspot.com

So page 1 is really page 6...

The Picture Book Dummy: Made Easy
(once again, I cut and paste, thanks to Fuse #8)

See also: all-on-surfaces

James Kaczman

A Completely Unscientific (Yet Accurate) Look at Social Sites

The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Announces the Winners and Honorees of the 2009 Golden Kite Awards

thanks to cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com

juliefortenberry.blogspot.com

Animaticus Drawersaurus

with thanks to Rosana Sullivan at rdsullivan.blogspot.com

Today celebrates the 105th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Seuss.

Announcing

The Top 100 Picture Books Poll!

Matthew Cordell (see James Preller Interviews . . . Matthew Cordell)

Bookish Birdhouses

"If Antoinette Portis's Not a Box and Emily Gravett's Monkey and Me had a love child, it might just be this book"

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Hat via weYbooks.com

Catherine Lazure
(thumbnail from flickr.com)

Sarah's favorite children's book

Thanks to Imaginary Blog

A Blog Tour for Literacy March 9 - 13