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Here is where I confess--I chose this book before I had even seen it, based completely on the rave reviews it was getting from friends and in the press. This happened a few months ago and this reminded me of why I thought, "I think we will have to talk about hello!...
Well, between the election and storms of all sorts, it's been a little difficult to concentrate, hasn't it?My focus is returning and I would like to turn my focus to a book for new readers. Books for new readers have a specific structure to help the new reader successfully negotiate...
Esther AverillI hope you all caught Barbara Bader's picture essay last Thursday, "Absorbing Pictures and What They Say." It's not to be missed!Today, we've posted an oldie: Esther Averill's "What Is a Picture Book?" from 1957 in which she discusses the difference between picture books & illustrated books, and the...
Breaking news!The New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2012 have just been announced via Twitter. This year marks the 60th anniversary of this annual picture book award.Judges Chris Raschka, Bruce Handy (Vanity Fair), and Cathryn Mercier (director of the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons...
On Thursday the Horn Book will launch its contribution to Picture Book Month -- which you may or may not be aware of. Last year Dianne de Las Casas came up with the idea of celebrating PBs with their own month, in part as a response to a 2010 article in the...
There's just something about a mouse with a paintbrush, isn't there?Janson, named after art historian H.W. Janson, lives in the museum and is delighted by the art she finds in the modern wing. Inspired, she creates her own spinoffs of the classics and eventually creates enough art to have her...
Here's another book that Robin reviewed for the Magazine but I jumped in and claimed it for the blog.Trust Hyewon Yum (The Twins' Blanket) to come up with a new approach the tried-and-true First Day of School Book. All the usual elements are there: worries about being too little, getting...
A Home for Bird has been on my radar for a long time. I was on a recon mission at ALA for new books and I sneaked a slow peek while the Roaring Brook folks were busy. It took me a while to read it because I kept slowing down....
Since Robin posted about an ocean book, I thought I'd step in next with another. Ocean Sunlight is the second offering from co-authors Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm and it's Bang's third book about light.In the interest of full disclosure, I've spent some time with Molly Bang recently, gaining a...
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