"Google celebrates Mark Twain's 176th birthday today with its latest doodle, which depicts a famous scene from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

What happened when her new book, Good Night, World, landed on Carolyn Fisher's doorstep.

My Book Is Here! from Carolyn Fisher on Vimeo.

How to Draw a Bear

(thanks to http://childrensbooks-goodbadugly.blogspot.com/)

Picture Book Giveaways

At Goodreads

illustration by Kirstie Edmunds

Save the Postmen (and Women)

http://www.saveamericaspostalservice.org/

illustration by Tibor Gergely

Kirkus

Best of 2011

illustrations by Diane de Groat

Snow Day!

Komako Sakai...

Marie-Louise Gay...

Sebastian Braun...

Rotraut Susanne Berner...

Anita Jeram...

William Steig...

Kiyoko Sakata...

Virginia Lee Burton...

Raymond Briggs...

Richard Scarry...

Susan Swan...

Adam Gustavson...

Sybille Von Olfers...

Jan Brett...

Dick Bruna...

Christian Birmingham...

Roger Duvoisin...

Jack Ezra Keats...

John Schoenherr...

...and Christopher Silas Neal...

Float My Boat

Story Matters

 Book-A-Day Almanac 

Neil Gaiman on The Simpsons This Weekend

CLAUDIO MUÑOZ

the doors sing reading rainbow

WOW

NEUBECKER BOOKS

Nancy Wolff's designs for

Muffin and Mani Wallpaper are gorgeous.

Do!

(Love that Larry David/sesame st. type music)
Written by Gita Wolf, illustrated by Ramesh Hengadi.
  Thanks, Shelley!

Field Trip

to the Society of Illustrators

shop
(illustration from Grandpa Green by Lane Smith)

Olivier Tallec 

graviti zone rugs

A compilation of illustrations from classic children's books

Starting with an illustration by Cliff Roberts 
(Similar in style to Douglas Florian? No, not Douglas. James Florio? Jim Flora!)             

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Pirate Boy

by Eve Bunting

Giveaway ends November 30, 2011.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win

Cybils 2011

Long List (yay!)

Picture Book Idea Month

    30 picture book ideas in 30 days. 

Picture Book Proclamation

From the ThePictureBookCo...