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)

Art, Words, Life:

Read Along the Hudson

Sen. Byron Dorgan explains 'Hello Kitty' debit cards

IBBY Announces Nominees for

The Hans Christian Andersen Awards

Posts Tagged ‘bear’

Delphine Durand's blog address...

http://delphinedurand.blogspot.com/
Thanks to Mia

another beautiful film from the Luzzati-Gianini team

www.piccioliillustration.com

Paper Dolls

From

Liddle Kiddle to

That Girl

Top 100 Picture Books - Poll Results

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Above illustration from (#40) Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

(Thanks, Jennifer)

An Exhibition of Finnish Illustrators

Truth and Tales (Thank you to Letra pequena!)

Above illustration by Anne Peltola

"Oh heck no, it's NOT fine art. It's just cute!"

from KitLane, thanks to ilikecharacters.com and Eline

Slideshow: Simpsons Stamps Unveiled

The Baby in the Hat illustrated by Andre Amstutz

THING 1 & THING 2

David Gavril

If you are writing about a sanitation worker, can you still call him a garbage man? Sanitation worker just sounds wrong.

jpeg from eliz.avery's photostream . illustration from Dear Garbage Man, 1957. (By Gene Zion, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham)

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive:

Illustration: Artzybasheff's Machinalia (Boris Artzybasheff)

Character Hunter!!!

Linda Bleck

“Let’s Board It Up!” The Magic of the Storyboard