Thursday, September 27, 2007

Gallery of illustrated book endpapers


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After looking at these (are they all endpapers?) you might be thinking, "What the heck is the Dutch Treat Club?" Check out those lists of past speakers and entertainers.
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Disaster Services

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Thanks to John Cusack .

Who needs Socialized Evacuation Planning?

*UPDATE: Help Jet must now be operating under a different name and website. 4/22/08

Laura Vaccaro Seeger

studiolvs.com

MotherReader: Best Books of 2007 (So Far):

MEGALIST

Monday, September 24, 2007

South West Children's Illustrators

swillustrators.blogspot.com
bathfestivalofchildrensliterature.co.uk

Via The Edge of the Forest

An appreciation of Patrick McDonnell's picture books, by Adrienne Furness

and
Sounds from the Forest talks with Mary Anne Hoberman and Deborah Freedman (Brought to you by Just One More Book!!)

dreamsofspace.nfshost.com

1945. Meyer, Jerome S. Illustrated by Richard Floethe. Picture Book of Astronomy.
PREFLIGHT 1949-1953



1953. Editors of CHILD LIFE, The Busy Bee Space Book


1953. Hust, Earl Oliver, The Big Book of Space


COUNTDOWN 1954-1956



1954. Barry, Catharine E., Illustrated by Angelo Longo, A Trip Through Space


Play Pen: New Children's Book Illustration (Paperback) by Martin Salisbury

Students, start using your camera phones.

The Coop considers ISBNs to be their intellectual property, and they call the cops on ISBN copiers.

Friday, September 21, 2007

Children's Literature with Daniel Pinkwater



Daniel Pinkwater is the author of at least 100 books for children, young adults and even adults. He makes frequent appearances on Weekend Edition with Scott Simon to read and discuss books for children.
Listen (and Look) Here

Friday, September 07, 2007

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

"a farthing is so small that it's only used nowadays by the dwarfs"

From The New York Review of Books/classics/


"We weren't able to insert [this handy explanation of British coins] into our edition of Uncle, but I thought I'd share it anyway. If you don't know J.P. Martin's stories about a very rich elephant named Uncle, this will give you a small taste. And, if the illustrations look familiar, it's because they're by Quentin Blake, who illustrated most of Roald Dahl's books. Here he's integrated what looks like direct rubbings of the coins into his pen-and-ink art."

Sara Kramer, Managing Editor, NYRB Classics

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Uncle has his own blog. Here is his blogger profile:

I am immensely rich, and I have a B.A. I dress well, generally in a purple dressing gown, and I often ride about in my traction engine, which I prefer to a car.


Here Uncle blogs about Harry: http://talesfromhomeward.blogspot.com/2007/07/harry-blenkinsop-and-deathly-hallows_20.html

Monday, September 03, 2007

William Gropper

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Lest We Forget

Years of Dust, By Ben Shahn, Resettlement Administration, 1937, Photolithograph
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, National Archives and Records Administration


Lest We Forget , By Ben Shahn, Resettlement Administration, 1937, Gouache and watercolor in bound volume, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, National Archives and Records Administration
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The Original Art of Basil Wolverton
from the Collection of Glenn Bray
September 1 - November 11, 2007

Goin' Crazy with Elijah Wood