Jason Chapman

Quentin Blake/ Roald Dahl figurines from www.robertharrop.com/

(thanks to www.jeffpidgeon.com/)

Salvador Bartolozzi's Pinocchio
Pinocho Contra Chapete

Rotofugi Gallery

http://www.facebook.com/cutefeed

Envelopes and Endpapers

Grégoire Vallancien

Helen Dardik

Craig Frazier's drawings and your words?

And Voila! The finished painting...

Step by step with John Nez

Abner Graboff continued at Ward-O-Matic

Terrible Yellow Eyes
Cory Godbey's collection of works inspired by Where the Wild Things Are. The above illustration is by Meg Hunt.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

Susannah Ryan

Anne Wilsdorf

Henrietta at the Parade

Illustration by Syd Hoff from HENRIETTA'S FOURTH OF JULY

Eleanor Davis
Chicago area events:

Saturday, July 11th
Magic Tree Bookstore
11 AM - Noon
141 North Oak Park Avenue
Oak Park, IL 60301

Oak Park Library
1 PM
834 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60301
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Monday, July 13th
ALA Annual Convention
1:30 PM Baker and Taylor Booth #3620
The Convention Center at McCormick Place West

Ward Jenkins interviews Jon Graboff about his father's life and work

"Throughout this week I'll feature the interview as well as showcase some books that Abner had illustrated throughout his career. Stay tuned!"

Living in Trees

Miss Twiggley's Tree by Dorothea Warren Fox
Scan by auburngrammy2000

The Man Who Lived in a Hollow Tree by Anne Shelby
Illustrated by Cor Hazelaar

Elisa Kleven

Video by Thacher Hurd for The San Francisco Center for the Book

You can see other illustrators (from the exhibit Once Upon a Book -- May 4 - Fri. Aug. 7) discuss their creative process here.

Curated by Thacher Hurd, this is the second in a series of children's book exhibitions. This show explores the creative process in the work of six critically acclaimed illustrators: Elisa Kleven, Remy Charlip, Maira Kalman, David Macaulay, Chris Raschka and Brian Selznick.

(Thanks to Marcia)

More Chris Raschka

slideshow

Photos from two offbeat museums: one for ventriloquism and one for signage.

Get a Life, Holden Caulfield
(Search For Self Called Off After 38 Years)

A Mo Willems

Extra-sooper-triple sneak peek...

(Thanks to Mary Lee)

Those Crooked Playhouses that were on TLC last night are very cute. (Marketing departments everywhere should be FedExing freebies to the Gosselins. See "Little-known blog gets 10,000 hits in 10 Minutes.")

Amy Schimler

is giving away a signed copy "What Do You See?"
Recommended for younger children with a great message about eco-responsibility.

Jude Daly

Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland"

A TeachingBook's Movie: Chris Raschka

Also from TeachingBooks.net: Author Name Pronunciation Guide - An audio collection of authors & illustrators saying their names. (My name is Charlotte Zolotow)

Portfolio:

Andrew Joyner
(Illustration from The Terrible Plop by Ursula Dubosarsky)

Friday, July 3rd

Bookstore Event for Preschoolers

Sunday, June 21st:

Children’s Authors reading for the 7th Heaven Street Fair in Park Slope, Brooklyn

How To

from Mark Crilley

thanks to art-words-life.blogspot.com

Illustrators' Envelopes

From the apple and the egg (the envelope above is by Emma Chichester Clark)
Thank you, thank you to Nikalas Catlow !

(Who is Klaus Flugge, and why does he get such fabulous mail?)

Google Chrome

Why can't a profitable company like Google pay for illustration?

Seven Stories is the first museum in the UK wholly dedicated to the art of British children’s books.

Picture Book Timeline

Sarah McMenemy

Renata Liwska's illustration, blog Pandas and Such, and LittlePandabook.com

The above illustration is from the book "Nikolai the Only Bear" written by Barbara Joosse. Thanks to UPPERCASE .

Sunday is for folding origami and nursing old grudges.

Nicolas Debon

"When I was young, I placed my baby teeth under my pillow and when i woke up I'd find a shiny new quarter. But whatever happened to those little teeth? Where did they go? Would I ever see them again?Many years later, a little tooth was standing at my door. It looked familiar. It's name was ickle. Welcome home, my milk toof!"

From Saints and Spinners:

M.B. Goffstein's Goldie the Dollmaker (Thank you to Victoria Thorne)

lego-star-wars-photography and Yoko and John's Bed-In from flickr.com/photos/balakov/

AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com
(The "Freaky Friday" photo is good. I hope these are submitted by family members and not photography studio employees)

Thanks to Paul for pointing me to the Children's Bookshelf BookExpo photo gallery and their nice wrap up of the event.

Thank you to http://bruaa-editora.blogspot.com/

Helmi Abdel-Hamid El-Touni

Eva Eriksson

Eriksson, Eva. Malla Handlar (Engl. "Molly Goes Shopping"). Illus. Eva Eriksson. Stockholm: Eriksson & Lindgren, 1998. [28] p. See cover.

———. Om en liten vecka eller när Bella äntligen träffade Gustav (Engl. "In a Little Week, or How Bella Finally Met Gustav"). Illus. Eva Eriksson. Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 1978. 30 p. See cover.

Holmberg, Bo R. En dag med Johnny (Engl. "A Day with Johnny"). Illus. Eva Eriksson. Stockholm: Alfabeta, 2002. [24] p. See cover.

Lindgren, Barbro. Andrei's Search. Translated from the Swedish by Elisabeth Kallick Dyssegaard. Illus. Eva Eriksson. Stockholm: R & S Books, 2000. (Originally publ. as Andrejs längtan in 1997 by Rabén & Sjögren). [28] p. See cover.

———. La maman et le bébé terrible (Engl. "Mother and the Wild Baby"). Translated from the Swedish by Nelle Hainaut-Baertsoen. Illus. Eva Eriksson. Series "Petit Mijade": Mijade, 1999. (Originally publ. in 1983, though with a different French translation, by Messidor et La Farandole). [32] p. (Photocopy.) See cover.

———. Mamman och den vilda Bebin (Engl. "Mamma and the Wild Baby"). Illus. Eva Eriksson. Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 1980. [24] p. See cover.

———. Sagan om den lilla farbrorn (Engl. "The Story of the Little Old Man"). Illus. Eva Eriksson. Series "Börja Läsa". Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 1979. 53 p. See cover.

———. The Wild Baby. Translated from the Swedish by Jack Prelutsky. Illus. Eva Eriksson. London: Scholastic, 1985. (Originally publ. in Sweden as Mamman och den vilda Bebin in 1980 and in English in 1981 by Hodder & Stoughton). [24] p. (Photocopy.) See cover.

Nilsson, Ulf. När lilla syster Kanin gick alldeles vilse (Engl. "When Little Sister Bunny Got Totally Lost"). Illus. Eva Eriksson. Stockholm: Bonnier Carlsen, 2002. (Originally publ. in 1987). [26] p. See cover.

Thank you to Jeffrey Garrett who compiled this fabulous page. (Check out the illustration by Svein Nyhus)

LOOKING FOR ONE BIG FAT LIST OF CHILDREN’S BOOK ILLUSTRATORS, Including LINKS, PICTURES, and INTERVIEWS?

Look here!

More Maira

Thanks to Art Words Life!

Books good enough to eat

Two More Parades

June 23 and 25 at the Storybook Cove (above illustration from Pippa at the Parade, by Karen Roosa)

CONTEST QUESTION:

Who will the Superfine Dinettes be marching as for the 2009 Mermaid Parade?
"Penguin USA was very generous to give me copies of MERMAIDS ON PARADE that I will autograph for some lucky winners. The Mermaid Parade is Saturday June 20, 2009"

Melanie has more details ( Above are the The Disco Mermaids, Jay, Eve, and Robin in MERMAIDS ON PARADE, illustrated by Melanie Hope Greenberg)

Seductive Espionage

"A Kiss From Tokyo" Theatrical trailer from Stephane coedel and Kevin Dart on Vimeo. Book By Its Cover has more info about Kevin Dart and Seductive Espionage here.

100 WORDS

Every High School Graduate Should Know
thanks to BB

Maira Kalman considers the soldiers who prepare for war.

BookExpo

www.booktv.org/

Do you ever skip pages when you're reading to your child?
(the-end-of-over-parenting)

May 9, 2009–November 8, 2010

Picture Perfect: Art from Caldecott Award Books, 2006-2009
(hat tip to Mr. Willems and Franki)

Abigail Spells

Anna Alter kicks off the blog tour for Abigail Spells @ MotherReader

"My illustrator is blond"

James Preller interviews Betsy Bird

Wendy Wahman
(Thanks to bookmoot.com and justonemorebook. And to sevenimpossiblethings )

"I'm making an animated video for my song 'People Really Like Milk'. This is all I've done so far. It took 12 years." Billy Kelly

Here is the entire audio:
People Really Like Milk

I gave birth to The Gruffalo
Video (5min 23sec), Author Julia Donaldson describes her new book for teenagers, Running on the Cracks, and talks about her working relationship with illustrator Axel Scheffler. Plus she treats us to a birthday song for the Gruffalo, who is 10 years old this year

A modern view on the classics of children's literature

Cliff Roberts Continued

at flickr.com thanks to lemon.wonder

Today's Inspiration: The Book of Jazz, illustrated by Cliff Roberts. (With thanks to martinklasch.blogspot.com)