Book Reviews
I was of course kidding when I characterized the Sendak Fellowship as a reality show, but there are some aspects of it that are similar. Four people whose only things necessarily in common are talent and an interest in creating picture books share a large house for a month. They...
Two new entries (both August) in Little Simon’s A Classic Board Book series, which repackages well-known picture books as board books, are on opposite ends of the adaptation spectrum.Emily Gravett’s Orange Pear Apple Bear makes by far the more natural translation. Gravett’s spare text, ample white space, humor, and eye-pleasing...
R and I are off to the state of my birth tomorrow, visiting Maurice Sendak and his "Sendak fellows" in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The four fellows, picture-book artists all, spend a month working in a house next to Sendak's as they are filmed for the reality series Bunny Eat Bunny. Watch...
God, there's a lot going on, and I haven't even written my reviews yet. Katrina and Cathie Mercier and I have been finishing up the planning for this year's Horn Book at Simmons colloquium. (When I am old and being interviewed by Leonard Marcus, if he asks "What did you...
In the first picture book he has both written and illustrated since Outside Over There (1981), Maurice Sendak conjures up yet another rambunctious young mischief-maker, this one in the form of a gawky, quarrelsome pig.At nine, Bumble-Ardy is older by far than either Mickey or Max, and he bursts on...
Bumble-Ardyby Maurice Sendak; illus. by the authorPrimary di Capua/HarperCollins 40 pp.9/11 978-0-06-205198-1 $17.95 gBumble-Ardy made its first appearance back in 1971 as an animated short on Sesame Street featuring a boy who invited pigs to his ninth birthday party. Forty years later, the story makes its picture book debut, and...
Three new concept books for preschool and primary ages play with the book form and go out of their way to keep kids involved.Newcomer Patricia Intriago brings a strong graphic sensibility to her deceptively minimalist Dot. This book of opposites uses a brief rhyming text and a playful touch, setting...
>I was just checking some links for the forthcoming issue of Notes from the Horn Book and found this beautiful thing....
Brian has been a busy boy--not only is his Wonderstruck coming out this fall (I'm reviewing it for the September Horn Book) but Martin Scorsese's film of The Invention of Hugo Cabret will be out before Christmas. (In color AND 3-D, obviously intent on making miracles of a very different...
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