A Visit With Ashley Bryan

"The Ashley Bryan Center invites you to experience  the breadth of Ashley Bryan’s extraordinary 80-year career in art, literature and music."

Visit: http://ashleybryancenter.org/exhibit/

Ashley Bryan at home on Islesford.
Photo by Bill McGuinness 

jpgeg from http://ashleybryancenter.org

The Getty's Virtual Library — download over 250 art books for free:

http://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/index.html

Toon Books' Hansel & Gretel

Check out a beautiful, new children's book, 'Hansel & Gretel' by Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti, published by Toon Books and (New Yorker art editor) Francoise Mouly…

...read more at PublishersWeekly...

Fred Blunt

U.K. illustrator Fred Blunt's work just makes me smile...

via Fusenews:

• Jules would never alert you to this herself, but don’t miss this interview with the woman behind the Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast blog as conducted by Phil and Erin E. Stead.  Even if you know Jules you’ll learn something new.  For example, I had no idea she enjoyed Marc Maron’s podcast too.

http://numberfivebus.com/2014/05/26/season-1-episode-4-special-guest-julie-danielson/

“A Visit With Ashley Bryan” opens on Little Cranberry Island

http://cafedesartistes.bangordailynews.com/2014/06/18/a-visit-with-ashley-bryan-opens-on-little-cranberry-island/

Ashley Bryan at home, photo: Anthony Anderson

"...the astonishing range of the 90-year-old artist’s work — from his drawings, book illustrations, and paintings, to stained glass windows created from sea glass, to puppets constructed from objects Bryan finds on island beaches."

“A Visit With Ashley Bryan” is presented by the Ashley Bryan Center in partnership with the National Park Service and numerous sponsors.

 June 23 to Sept. 30, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. through August; and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in September (except Sundays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.). For more information visit www.ashleybryancenter.org 

Mary Anne Lloyd

Via angela adams

Pippa at a July 4th Parade

 Pippa at the Parade

http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781590785676

Pippa at a July 4th Parade

 Pippa at the Parade

http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781590785676

Airport Tapestries by Peter Sís

In honor of Václav Havel, and Seamus Heaney

via SLJ: http://www.slj.com/2014/06/authors-illustrators/author-peter-sis-soars-high-with-airport-tapestries/#_

The Artist and the King

"In a nod to art's twin powers of subversion and of transformation, a very small painter makes a hardhearted king cry—and then smile." --Kirkus Reviews

www.amazon.com

Order from the good people at Quail Ridge why don't you? www.quailridgebooks.com

The Artist and the King from Julie Fortenberry on Vimeo.

"Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? Well, He Just Did."

http://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-that-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-would-return-to-the-comics-page-well-he-just-did/

Recommended Reading from the PEN American Center

http://www.pen.org/blog/recommended-reading-picture-book-writing