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Illustrations (c) 2024 by Lynne Rae Perkins. Being a fine arts major at a large public university opened my small-town mind to a myriad of ideas, in a myriad of ways. And I loved it. My education there was not particularly strong on how to survive after college. Which I...
Growing up Was like fighting my way out of a ball of yarn Warm yarn. Loving yarn. Intelligent but myopic yarn. Lutheran yarn. German Lutheran yarn. Eventually, bits of German Lutheran fuzz all over me, In my eyes, in my brain, I got out: Stranger in a strange land. I...
Violet & Jobie in the Wild by Lynne Rae Perkins; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Greenwillow 240 pp. g 9/22 978-0-06-249969-1 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-249971-4 $9.99 Mouse siblings Violet and Jobie live a cozy life in a human house where they are warm and comfortable,...
Every now and then, I think about a conversation I had many years ago with one of my professors. We were talking about travel. He was saying how important he thought it was to venture beyond the main tourist paths. “You don’t even have to go very far,” he said....
Little Bird by Cynthia Voigt; illus. by Lynne Rae Perkins Intermediate Greenwillow 336 pp. g 9/20 978-0-06-299689-3 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-299691-6 $8.99 In her latest animal fantasy, Voigt returns to the Old Davis Farm, a territory she has explored in three previous books (most recently Toaff’s Way, rev. 9/18). Little Bird is a curious...
The Museum of Everything by Lynne Rae Perkins; illus. by the author Primary Greenwillow 40 pp. g 5/21 978-0-06-298630-6 $17.99 In this big, noisy world, a museum, even if it’s only in one’s imagination, is a place of quiet contemplation. With this absorbing and original picture book, Perkins offers a...
I was thirty-one years old. I had two fine arts degrees, both in printmaking. “Printmaking?” an acquaintance once commented. “That’s like having a degree in dressage.” In terms of usefulness or relevance, he meant. Or employability. I was onto something now, though, working at a graphic design and typesetting business...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored byFor the education-minded among you, let me just say about Frank and Lucky Get Schooled that I don't think I've seen more Core Standards introduced in a...
In many of the books we look at for this blog, the illustrator has created virtuosic art that looks as if it required a lot of time and skill. Perkins, on the other hand, makes it look easy.As far as I can tell, all of Lynne Rae Perkins's work has a...
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2014 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Fall Publishers’ Preview, a semiannual advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions.Sponsored byNewbery Medalist Lynne Rae Perkins’s...