‘This is your sister. … Loretta Mason Potts … but it’s not Potts any more.
She has come to live with us—at last.’”
Granted, I’m not so sure what I did to my blog, but it’d had enough of my nonsense and packed its bags last week and went to some remote island resort — and without leaving me the keys. As I noted in yesterday’s quickie post (it had to be brief, lest the blog kick me out again), I just couldn’t get in to edit a post without the blog hanging on me and kicking me out repeatedly, but my smart tech-support husband managed to figure it out. At least we think … we hope that it’s finally fixed.
BUT … I had planned on announcing a week-long blog break anyway (for other reasons), which I’m still going to do. I can leave you this with this art below, though. It’s what I had intended on posting last Friday. A couple weeks back, I wrote about The New York Review Children’s Collection’s reissue of Mary Chase’s children’s novel Loretta Mason Potts (pictured above), originally published in 1958 and illustrated by Harold Berson. So, I have some art from that book today. Bonus: The folks over at the New York Review also sent some art from some of their other reissues, which makes me very happy. (This means there’s art below from the likes of Lillian Hoban
, Marc Simont, and William Pène du Bois, to name a few. I embiggened their names here, just ’cause I like seeing their art and get excited.)Also: Over at Kirkus on Friday, I wrote about Ben Hatke’s newest project, a picture book called Julia’s House for Lost Creatures. That link is here.
Next week I’ll have some art from Ben Hatke, as well as some from Bob Graham, since I chatted with him last Thursday.
Enjoy the art below … And I will be back here at 7-Imp in about a week.
and it would tumble down.”
Then he turned his head backward as far as he could, to see over his shoulder,
and he walked backward out of his room and backward down the stairs.”
He turned his head backward as far as he could, to see over his shoulder,
and walked backward out the breakfast room.”
The Kingdom of Carbonel (1961),
illustrated by Richard Kennedy
for instance—but she’d always had him, and he was a very remarkable creature.”
(very first published in 1944)
and stars and spiderwebs—but no skates.”
The mousewife saw all these through the windowpane,
but she did not know what they were.”
But the children would not stop.”
All art is posted by permission of The New York Review Children’s Collection.
Y’know, I almost always find it at least mildly amusing when somebody uses a construction like “BWA-HA-HA-HAHAHA!” in a Facebook post or comment to indicate sudden noisy laughter. But maybe the world (at least the online version) needs more silvery and tinkling laughter. Not sure how to indicate it, though, short of “Tee-hee-hee!” and such. *shudder*
Enjoy your break, Jules — and get ready for the roller-coaster in just a few days!
Oh thank you for these drawings – love that cat looking up at the broomstick and passengers! I wonder if that is the firecat with Jenny? (I only remember the image – need to figure that out.) So glad you figured out blog recalcitrance – wishing you a really good week!
Just to say–those Wild Things posts you and Elizabeth have been doing are so entertaining and informative and inspiring and fun and…you are forgiven any and all.
Amazing illustrations. So lucky to get to see them here. I only knew The Backward Day.
Hope you have a good blog break (or are having it now…)