Olimpia Zagnoli

Jackie Ormes

the first black woman to have a career as a cartoonist

Got Caption?

Your Turn To Craft A Punchline

Book Quilts

www.quiltplay.com (click here too)

An Eric Carle inspired How To Project

from Arounna Khounnoraj

Straight Hair, Curly Hair

illustrated by Ed Emberley

at curio.com

Now through September 14 at the Los Angeles Public Library

Children Should Be Seen:
The Image of the Child in American Picture-Book Art

Sample pages from DRAWING WORDS & WRITING PICTURES

by JESSICA ABEL & MATT MADDEN
65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Grand Lobby Gallery)

Creative Times:

MAIRA KALMAN, CREATIVE HEROINE

Illustration from KASIMIR'S JOURNEY by Marlene Reidel

found at curio.com

a Tomi Ungerer slide show

It's the first Best/Worst Pitch Contest.

Categories include The Robert Munsch Citation for most dysfunctional relationship in a pitch.

Jill McElmurry

Stop picking on Beijing's Olympic mascots

from How To Make Faces by Frank Webb

YouTube - Little Mary Blair Train

Inspiration from print & pattern and mini labo.

Frank W. Dormer

his website
his blog
his book
his interview

Cover Discussion: Take Two

Jeff Smith's drawings are on display at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University.

Ask the 'Bone' Comic Book Artist Your Questions (Answers will be posted Wednesday, July 30)

Domestic Bliss

Mom has to get a yam.

Today I got a copy of a Harcourt Decodable Book that I illustrated. (It does kind of read like code.)

The Red Tree

Richard Tognetti talks about combining music with Shaun Tan's pictures.

They Wan'na Be Like Louis Prima

Here's a short clip of Louis Prima/Jungle Book. And here is I Wan'na Be Like You by LOS LOBOS, SMASH MOUTH, THE POLYJESTERS, etc. (from Covering the Mouse, tributes to the music of Disney).

Read Roger: I'm still no Tim Gunn, but . . .

The American Library Association Awards Ceremony on The Runway

UPDATE: MORE ON THE RED CARPET HERE

The Lion and the Mouse
The battle that reshaped children’s literature

Jill Lepore and Roger Angell talk about the battle over “Stuart Little.”

ILLUSTRATION: IAN FALCONER

The Smithsonian Institution and The Jim Henson Legacy

Traveling Exhibition (More info at the Smithsonian site and at NPR, where you can hear curator Karen Falk talk about Henson's start in TV commercials. Henson made 179 short, violent, and funny commercials for Wilkins Coffee and Tea.)

Turn on Your Speakers

In 1972, Daniel Pinkwater wrote and illustrated "Bear's Picture." A new edition of the book was published with pictures by D.B. Johnson.

Creative Juices

(thanks again to Ms. Bird)

HenryHolt Videos at YouTube (thanks to We Heart Books and Fuse #8)

wordless picture books (above illustration by Suzy Lee)

Suburban Transportation

It’s a common problem; children’s book writers are constantly racking their brains to transport characters ... so independent, their parents rarely appear, so sticking them in a car pool is not an option.

Publishers give new pledge on age banding

Slideshow of Original Artwork from Golden Books

Women Working in Panels with
Rebecca Donner, Fly, Miriam Katin, Leslie Stein, Sara Varon, Lauren Weinstein, moderated by Betsy Bird

Date : Monday, July 21st

Time : 7pm

Location : Huckleberry Bar, 588 Grand St.(near Lorimer St.), Williamsburg, Bklyn.
718-218-8555.

Nearest Train: L/Lorimer Stop, G/Metropolitan Ave. stop, J/M/Z to Hewes stop.

Suggested Donation : $10, to benefit Behind the Book.
Your $10 donation entitles you to 1 free draft beer.

Golden Legacy: Original Art from 65 Years of Golden Books

July 4 - August 28 at the Children's Museum of Manhattan
212 W 83rd St, New York, NY 10024
(212) 721-1234 Get directions

Illustration by Tibor Gergely, 1950, "The Great Big Fire Engine Book"

Illustrations by Annemarie van Haeringen

Wall-E for President

By FRANK RICH

Remembering Science Fiction Writer Thomas Disch

Euphemisms

The Fifteen Most Useless Internet Euphemisms (I haven't followed this boing boing dust-up, I just like lists.)

'Funny Prize' Honors Roald Dahl, Humorous Books

The only literature prize Dahl ever won in the U.K. was judged by children. Listen here.

"Much-loved children's author Roald Dahl was snubbed by critics in his day. Now, the United Kingdom's Booktrust has created a prize in his honor that awards children's authors who write funny books.
U.K. Children's Laureate Michael Rosen talks with Liane Hansen about the prize, which he founded."

techno kittens

Pigs by Jimmy Zhang

Carving Works of Art Out of Vegetables and Fruit

Lemon Bear by Saxton Freymann
(Thanks to http://www.bibi.org/box/)

Dolls

from the world of Swedish children’s books. The above dolls are Boo and Baa (or Bu och Bä) by Olof and Lena Landström.

Sadly, there are no Mini Mia dolls.

Illustration by Pija Lindenbaum

PEPITO

BY LUDWIG BEMELMANS via Chris Beetles

And while visiting Chris Beetles see Quentin Blake and Friends at Nunnington Hall

Stumpers with Staying Power

-- books that patrons are seeking, though they can’t recall the titles.
(Thanks to Peter at Collecting Children's Books for the jpeg)

Amazon Blogs

Recently I stumbled across some interesting stuff posted by Paul Hughes at an Amazon blog: http://www.omnivoracious.com/paul.html.

Here is a little info on Amazon’s blog strategy.

Children know which books they're old enough for (hat tip to Paul Hughes)

Nicola Smee