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Blog: Cartoon Brew (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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This is my second year on the Astrid Lindgren longlist, and I'm a strange mixture of thrilled to be picked and honoured to be in such company. Just as thrilled as I was last year, in truth.
Last year Shaun Tan won, which made me feel that the award was going to the best people. With a longlist of 184 people I feel less like I'm in competition for an award and more like I've been told I'm part of a club of people who've been doing the right thing.
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone.
Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.
And I'm honoured to be part of the club.
Blog: The Cath in the Hat (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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In honor of National Dog Day:
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
~ Groucho Marx
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Contributed by Owen Schumacher
Leo Hershfield was an eminent cartoonist, as well as one of the great courtroom illustrators of the '50s and '60s. NBC News called him the "Dean of Courtroom Artists," depending on him for many of the great courtroom dramas of the time, including those of infamous assassins Jack Ruby and James Earl Ray.
Hershfield's breezy, confident line work graced more than 50 books, including H. Allen Smith's, Low and Inside (1949), Richard Armour's, Golf Is a Four-Letter Word (1962), and—of course!—Groucho's womanizing tell-all, Memoirs of a Mangy Lover (1963). Incidentally, Groucho wrote more books than one might think, and all are worth checking out. Whatever the case, here are some of Leo's loopiest. Enjoy!
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It may seem to some like lazy thinking, but appropriating sayings, quotes, and proverbs can be quite handy in distilling complex subjects into something more immediate. At the Harold Washington Chicago Public Library are a few quotes above the checkout:
Books are meat and medicine
and flame and flight and flower,
steel, stitch, and cloud and clout
and drumbeats on the air.
- Gwendolyn Brooks
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Books and reading are very personal subjects for most of us, and I was interested to find more famous opinions about our chosen profession…
It would appear that Maya Angelou would approve of a customizable kids book that peaks a child’s interest in books:
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
Comedian Mitch Hedberg seemed to think that we may be too specialized:
“Every book is a children’s book if the kid can read!”
It was Confucius, however, who was the most complimentary of our endeavors:
“The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.”
What a wiseguy…
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One of my all-time favorite quotes.
Yup, love this one!