Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Vote already!
Mo Willems says Vote early, vote often...
More voting news via Fuse:
All submissions to the Top 100 Picture Books Poll end tonight at midnight.
(See the librarians at The Ferguson Library for their suggestions.)
More voting news via Fuse:
All submissions to the Top 100 Picture Books Poll end tonight at midnight.
(See the librarians at The Ferguson Library for their suggestions.)
Bart's Blackboard
Past Simpson opening blackboards: "No one cares what my definition of 'is' is," "Spitwads are not free speech." (from the-simpsons-mocks-the-ban)
Monday, March 30, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
7 Kicks!
Jules (Julie Danielson) at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast created a beautiful profile of my work. How fantastic to be in such great company. Thanks, Jules!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Illustrations from "Jimmy Potter Buys a Lollipop"
by Lennart Hellsing, illustrated by Stig Lindberg
jpegs from miekewillems.blogspot.com and theinvisibleagent.wordpress.com. More design by Lindberg here.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Hardie Gramatky (prints for sale)
Listen to Daniel Pinkwater and Scott Simon read from the restored edition of Little Toot.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
The Newest Medium:
Illustrating with Save and Undo
(From the November/December 2000 issue of The Horn Book Magazine)
(From the November/December 2000 issue of The Horn Book Magazine)
cross-reference
Picture Book selection made easy, thanks to ChoiceBooks. (Thanks too, to A Fuse #8 Production - Blog on School Library Journal)
Illustration by David Small from THAT BOOK WOMAN, by Heather Henson
Warning for the menopausal librarian: If you sometimes find yourself crying in front of your storytime audience, you must read THAT BOOK WOMAN a couple of times to yourself before reading it at storytime.
The "Book Women" of Eastern Kentucky: W.P.A.'s Pack Horse Librarians (photo from the KDLA, WPA Photographic Collection)
Warning for the menopausal librarian: If you sometimes find yourself crying in front of your storytime audience, you must read THAT BOOK WOMAN a couple of times to yourself before reading it at storytime.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Sesame Workshop is cutting about one-fifth of its work force
(On a happier note, see Elmo talk to children's book author Ricky Gervais here.)
(On a happier note, see Elmo talk to children's book author Ricky Gervais here.)
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Sometimes I use this blog as a place to stash pictures and information that I find too overwhelming to take in all at once. It's like a garage, only it's filled with amazing stuff instead of broken bikes and deflated soccer balls.
Mad Money
In a parody of a Slumdog Millionaire ad, Mad Magazine plans to spoof Bernie Madoff. (info and jpeg from walletpop.com)
Can Jim Cramer be far behind?
Can Jim Cramer be far behind?
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Children's Wallpapers and Books On view:
October 3, 2008–April 5, 2009
http://www.cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS/wallstories/
And through March 28th -- Illustrators 51: Advertising, Institutional, and Uncommissioned
Friday, March 06, 2009
So page 1 is really page 6...
The Picture Book Dummy: Made Easy
(once again, I cut and paste, thanks to Fuse #8)
See also: all-on-surfaces
(once again, I cut and paste, thanks to Fuse #8)
See also: all-on-surfaces
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Monday, March 02, 2009
"If Antoinette Portis's Not a Box and Emily Gravett's Monkey and Me had a love child, it might just be this book"
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