Awards: Parents vs Children

2009 Parents’ Choice Awards Call for Entries:
Book Awards February 9 - March 20, 2009
Click here to see a favorite past Silver Medal winner, illustrated by Matt Phelan.

And click here for news about The Children’s Book Council 2nd ANNUAL CHILDREN’S CHOICE BOOK AWARDS

The Red House Children's Book Award
Hundreds of books are read, shortlisted and voted for by children from around the country and any child in the UK can take part.
View the 2009 Red House Children's Book Award shortlist

Gwenola Carrère's ABC Cercasi…

(thanks to book-by-its-cover.com)

WHAT IS PROJECT CICERO? (thanks to schoollibraryjournal.com)

Art For Cats bidding has begun

Little Miss icons for your mobile phone

http://marketing.airborne-e.com/mediagallery/mmlm/index.php

Happy Fat Tuesday!

Visit Mermaids on Parade for more about Mardi Gras and parades.

Plush Toys, and Beyond

TheNeedle.org

Pippa and Mr. T

Mr. James Preller interviews Ms. Karen Roosa.

(jpeg of Mr. T from http://ivanuzz.edublogs.org/2008/04/14/recordando/)

It’s raining Fraggles

Today is trash/recycle day in my neighborhood. When I rolled out the trashcan I noticed what I thought was just some cardboard on the lawn. But it turned out to be FRAGGLE ROCKIN’, the complete CD collection of Fraggle music in mint condition. (?)

Illustration from Family Zoo by Filumena M., a 2008 first place winner of The Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest

Helen Musselwhite
(with thanks to the talented Laura Di Francesco and lauradifrancesco.blogspot.com)

Andrea U’Ren Receives Texas Bluebonnet Award

Savignac

via Today's Inspiration (with hat tip to Martin Klasch)

Prints by Sandra Juto

Tiny Art Director

Two great illustrators

in one post.

Shadra Strickland

The Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award Winner for New Talent and the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator of 2009. See Ms. Strickland's portfolio here. (And see Everybody Got Their Somethin’)

Joanne Liu

Matte Stephens interview via grain edit

From Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves --

The Death of Vintage Kids' Books
On February 10th, the "Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act" went into effect.

Bilingual ABC Bilingüe

Hand-printed lino-cut alphabet books in Spanish and English by Dave Buchen

by Emmanuel Guibert. Thanks to http://firstsecondbooks.typepad.com/mainblog/

The 2008-9 Cybils Winners
Thank you to weheartbooks.com for the jpeg.

At the Manhattan Children's Theatre:

Harry the Dirty Dog Jan 10 - Feb 22 (with shows on Feb 16, President's Day)

If You Give a Pig a Party Feb 28 - Apr 5

Stanley's Adventures Apr 11 - May 16

Portraits of Lincoln by

Nancy Carpenter (thanks to designmom.com)

and Marsden Hartley (jpeg from tigtail.org)

February 12th

was the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. (The above endpapers are from THE TREE OF LIFE by Peter Sis, with thanks to Denise Sharp.)

Approved by Experts!

See the Chappaqua Children's Librarians talk about some of their favorite books -- great reading suggestions from Zahra Baird, Teresa Bueti, Ann Marie Abate, and Miriam Lang Budin. See many more videos here.

Valentines Auctioned for SAVE THE CHILDREN

Cards created by Ian Falconer (above), Kevin Henkes, Brian Selznick, and Marla Frazee.

The auction continues at shop.ebay.com/save the children with work by LeUyen Pham (below), RosemaryWells, and Mo Willems.


See more of LeUyen Pham's work here .

Patrick McDonnell's wonderful minimalism

SOUTH

Régis Faller

BOOK BY BOOK: the making of a monkey man from Jarrett Krosoczka on Vimeo.
(thanks to SLJ)

Art for cats

"My Cat Clicked Magnify!" by Calef Brown
Starting bid: $100

Available on eBay -- February 20-26. All proceeds will go to Anjellicle Cats Rescue operations. Preview Auction here.

(Victoria Roberts, Adam McCauley, Roz Chast, Kathy Osborn, George Booth, Greg Clarke, Julliette Borda, Sam Gross, Mark Ulriksen, Danny Shanahan, Mel Odom, Calef Brown, Susan Hunt Yule, Joe Ciardiello, Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Liza Donnelly, Cynthia Von Buhler, Nick Dewar, Tatsuro Kiuchi, Jordin Isip, Melinda Beck, Catherine Lazure, Jessie Hartland, Rutu Modan, Holly Roberts, Emiliano Ponzi, Maureen Burdock, Noah Woods, Scott Menchin, Robert Neubecker, Brad Mossman, Barbara Ensor, Marc Burckhardt, Valeria Petrone, and many more.)

GDEX 320 research
& royalartlodge.com

The Royal Art Lodge was an art collective from 1996-2008.
The Royal Art Lodge was founded in 1996 by Michael Dumontier, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Drue Langlois, Jonathan Pylypchuk, and Adrian Williams in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Hollie Dzama and Myles Langlois have also been members.

Blair Lent died Jan. 27 in Medford, Mass.

(jpeg from macmillan.com)

O ai voje di jessi un vuerir - english subtitle from Marco Amato on Vimeo.

Today I received a link to this charming video "made in the school of Majano with the help of the public library." Thanks to Marco.

Bentō Calvin, Hobbes & Wild Things (Thanks to Fuse )

And Sara Varon Dog Cookies (jpeg from pixie stix kids pix)

Sara Varon has a new book coming out. (I've read it. It's great!)