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Exactly one year ago today little Ruaridh FIndlay Thompson's birth was heralded on the front page of the
Scotsman as
'Edinburgh's one in 7 billion' It had been calculated that it was the day the 7 billionth child was born on planet Earth.
Today, on his first birthday, Ruaridh will be getting lots of lovely presents and among the toys will be books. He already has a good library,(shared with his 3yr old sister) of board books and flap books, audio books and beautifully illustrated picture books.
Ruaridh likes to make Brrrumh! noises to the cars in his books, he loves the tactile 'This is not my...' series of books where each page has shiny, soft or bumpy aspects to each page, soft ears on a monkey or bumpy ridges on a tractor's engine. In fact he likes these so much that he touches the images on other picture books to see if they will feel different to the smooth surface of the printed book.
One of the great things about writing for children is that we have a new audience being born every day. That means favourite books have another chance to delight a new audience, and for the children there are also so many wonderful books to discover. If you are interested in Picture Books have a look at
Picturebook Den another collaborative blog by members of the SAS (Scattered Authors Society).
Another place Ruaridh likes to go with his little sister is their local library, to listen to stories and borrow books. When he goes to school it would be great to think that this encouragement to read a wide variety of books, that he is getting from home, will be reinforced in school by the school having a good and well stocked library and a librarian.
Particularly when he gets to senior school, when a lot of children are no longer going to the library with their parents and reading can sometimes be thought of as something you HAVE to do at school, rather than a pleasure.
This is where school librarians come into their own.
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| Lobby for School Libraries - Scotland |
Last weekend I attended the Lobby for School Libraries- Scotland, at the Scottish Parliament.
I blogged about this a few weeks ago
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Scottish authors Julie Bertagna, Jonathan Meres, Keith Gray, Debi Gliori, Anne Marie Allan and Sally J Collins were there to support the lobby, many others including Theresa Breslin (who sent a message from Russia) sent messages of support for libraries and librarians. In England there was great support from authors and librarians for the lobby in London on Monday.
In discussions about schools and librarians someone said they felt that English teachers in high schools do not read much or any young adult or teenage books, themselves. Obviously some teachers do and are great champions of books, but in my experience it is usually the school librarian, the person with all that enthusiasm, knowledge and willingness and time to engage with the children outside the classroom and exam pressures, who will manage to find the right book for the right child.
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But that is not possible if they have no budget to buy new books or organise author visits or pupil participation in book related events. If school budgets are cut or the money for books, libraries and librarians is not ring-fenced - in some schools libraries and librarians will not be considered a priority-
which eems strange in a time when literacy problems seem to abound and engagement with books for sheer enjoyment is a sure way to encourage reluctant readers.
Hopefully by the time little Ruaridh gets to senior school this will not be a problem! For today he is blissfully unaware of all this and will no doubt have a lovely time with his little sister, enjoying his 1st birthday and his pumpkin birthday cake!
I was so excited to find some cards I did for American Greetings in a local store! BOO!!
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Into the Pumpkin
Kinda Franklin
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No. Pages: 48 Ages: 4 to 11
It’s Halloween Party time again and the witches, bats, ghouls, ghosts, black cats, scarecrows, ravens, and spiders have come together for the annual bash. Questions remain. Where should they have the party, in the graveyard or the pumpkin patch? Will they dress up or go as themselves? Take a ride on a witches broom to find the answers to this year’s Halloween party.
You will hop on the witch’s broom for a journey like no other. Each creature of the night has a part to play. The bats are letting all 
know about the party, the ghouls are planning the treat or treating. The witch mails out invitations. Is she not a little bit late, or does she have magic on her side? Everyone has a job to do, right down to the scarecrow, who is the host of the night’s ball.
The biggest question, it seems, is where to hold the party. In the graveyard, the haunted castle, or the pumpkin patch. I like the haunted castle. It has great character standing amidst the ghosts. The graveyard is the spookiest and the pumpkin patch says nothing about the Great Pumpkin, so for me, it must happen at the haunted castle. Once the party is over, and the raven has sung all he came to sing, the witch sends us back home by way of the pumpkin patch. It is quite a journey on this Halloween night.
Told in rhyming verse, the Halloween party plans are whimsical. There is nothing here to scare a little one. The illustrations have a ghoulish, haunted feel, yet are bright and fun. It is the illustrations that make this book for me. I like the orange cast of Halloween and the feel of spider webs and wisps of clouds covering each illustration. This lends a feeling of motion and emotion to each picture. All the fall colors of Halloween are there. The oranges, yellows, whites, browns, and especially the blacks come together in delightful ways. The ghosts are dancing in a circle and I can hear the music as they twirl.
The text is a poem broken down verse by verse on the pages and illustrated by the author. She has made an unusual book with a familiar theme. Most of the lines roll right off the tongue in the lyrical way I enjoy. I think the illustrations are what make this book a winner. Anyone who enjoys Halloween will delight in Into the Pumpkin. I see this book as a family favorite, visited each year alongside the Great Pumpkin and treat or treating.
Into the Pumpkin is party planning that will not frighten a soul. To those of you who collect picture books for the fantastic illustrations, this is a must have. The illustrations are wonderfully enchanting. 
Into the Pumpkin could have just as easily have been dark, ghoulish, and frightening; the thing nightmares are made out of. Ms. Franklin chose to go the opposite direction and made a story any child can enjoy at any age. Into the Pumpkin is a Halloween winner.
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Publisher: Schiffer Publishing website
Release Date: July 28, 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7643-4183-0
Number of Pages: 48
Grades: Pre-K to 6
Ages: 4 to 11
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Below is an illustration I did for the back cover of October's Highlights magazine. This one is based on our annual Great Pumpkin Day celebration. This year is our 12th year of getting together with friends and family to eat, drink and carve pumpkins to welcome autumn. It started with myself and two friends but has grown to some fifty guests, many of whom are pictured here.
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Spent a good part of today kneeling and lying on the garage floor painting...and repainting...letters.
I think I already mentioned that I wasn't excited about painting letters and, yes, I did overfuss it. The more I tried to refine the letters, the less I liked them (and the more they seemed to draw attention away from the mural). In the end, I went back to fairly loose letters (sans serif). The title simply reads: Celebrate the Harvest - Santa Maria Valley (across the bottom of 3 panels)
I also worked on detailing the leaves around the pumpkins and building a little more contrast in that area.
Now, I'm a little more excited about working on the mural again. I will be moving some panels tonmorrow to (finally) detail the field beneath the wave. There'll be a little bit of greenery and some dots of red (strawberries) to pull a teensy bit more color into those first two panels.
At least I won't have to lay on the floor for the next phase!
Post Halloween exhaustion! Candy crash! A new portfolio piece! Again, this one's pencil and digital. My confidence with this process is really growing. I've said it before but I have to say it again, this process really helps me do the exact kind of pictures I want. I've always wanted to be able to produce work that shows my drawing prominently but is richly coloured. I couldn't fully pull this off using ink and watercolour or pencil and watercolour because the paint would inevitably hide much of my linework. This has been driving me crazy for years. So, this is closer to what I've had in my head.
What I do is; take these very finished pencil drawings and scan them in. I rework them extensively on the Cintiq using Photoshop (CS4). Reworking the black and white drawing. Mainly I lighten it up with white lines. Part of my preferred technique has always been to go too dark in the initial drawing and then recover the highlights. In the past I've white ink, gouache or acrylic to achieve this. It's much easier using the Cintiq and very easy to correct. I also play with curves quite a bit to get the exposure just right.
I than duplicate the background drawing in another layer and set the blending option to multiply (I think... ) All the colour work is sandwiched between the two layers. This method keeps the colour beneath the linework, so that nothing gets lost beneath the colouring. It's like having two layers of clear paper and the line drawing is sitting on top of the colours, if that makes sense. (I use a lot more than two layers but you get the idea) Each layer of colour is set to a different opacity, I'm going for a slightly washed out look, not overly intense but with moments of richness. This process is just an extension of my traditional work so the learning curve has been pretty gentle.
And if you're wondering this is a bit of an homage to Maurice Sendak.
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Invisible Inkling by Emily Jenkins Hank Wolowitz, please call him Wolowitz, lives with his sister and parents in an apartment above their Brooklyn ice cream shop called the “Big Round Pumpkin: Ice Cream for a Happy World.” His best friend Wainscotting has moved to Iowa City leaving Wolowitz feeling alone. It doesn’t help that Wolowitz [...]
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here is a smaller size version of my FIRST entry to they draw and cook. it is for a contest entitled cooking 4 kids
http://www.theydrawandcook.com/cooking-4-kids-contest
as soon as i came across this contest a week or so ago, i knew had to give it a shot. with two other deadlines looming at the time, there was still no stopping me. i have been wanting to illustrate a recipe for the longest time now so this was the perfect opportunity.
i knew i wanted it to be easy to read, easy to follow, cute and most importantly healthy. so i figured with fall right around the corner....why not do something with pumpkins (which i love)!
i took my sweet little character pippa, some pumpkins, an easy recipe...and a cute little crow and voila...pippa's pumpkin smoothie!
i just submitted it to they draw and cook so i'm waiting to see how it looks once they review it nad post it on their site. SUPER EXCITED!!!
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Seriously, it is! Back-to-school? They’re back now and we’re looking ahead to holiday book ordering and displays. First up: Halloween! Here are some ideas to help you with your book displays:
PUMPKIN TROUBLE by Jan Thomas
LITTLE GOBLINS TEN by Pamela Jane, illustrated by Jane Manning
PUMPKIN CAT by Anne Mortimer
SCARY SCHOOL by Derek the Ghost, illustrated by Scott M. Fischer
ZOMBIE CHASERS #2: UNDEAD AHEAD by John Kloepfer, illustrated by Steve Wolfhard
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FROST by Marianna Baer (and read by Sasha Obama!)
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POSSESS by Gretchen McNeil
What are your go-to recommendations for kids looking for scary books? Anything fun that you do for Halloween book displays?
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just a cute little illustration of a scarecrow named fern and his adorable canary friend:)
this is FOR SALE as a REPRODUCTION here http://www.etsy.com/listing/81979891/fern-the-scarecrow-reproduction
after this one, i'm taking a little hiatus from painting pumpkins. just a little one...;)
~haPpY AuTumN~
Yield a crop of pumpkins!
This is from a picture book that I illustrated called THE GOODBYE CANCER GARDEN, written by Janna Matthies. It recently won the 2011 Best English Language Children's Book at the Sharjah International Book Fair - wow! And it's also been chosen for CCBC Choices 2012: The Cooperative Children's Book Center top children's book picks for 2012. It's being translated into Arabic and Danish. I hope I get copies of those!
Cancer affects so many families these days. This is such an important, hopeful book about one family's way of responding to Mom's breast cancer recovery. What an honor to illustrate.
Getting tired of painting with so much green and brown - luckily today was orange (and a little green).
Notice anything new? After I'd submitted my original proposal, I'd thought about adding some leaves around the pumpkins and along what will be a vine between the plowed field and the band of light green along the bottom. So, I did...and I'll probably add a few more.
It's a 3-day weekend - no soccer games, to events! Just time to relax and paint, paint, paint! Oh, and probably BBQ.
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For the first time in a long time, I had a free Saturday. I must have painted for about 8 hours overall (not without interruption, of course).
I feel like I've spent a lot of time in the first two panels - especially because there were so many complicated issues on the tractor, the figure in the tractor, and the plow that hadn't been resolved. However, there are a lot of details on these panels that I have yet to do, and they won't happen until the very end. One of the last things I'll have to do is to get some of these panels exactly side by side with no gaps to make sure things line up. But, for now, I just measure where I can and "eyeball" it when I can't.
I started today by working on the pumpkins again, adjusting some of the shadows and highlights a little. Then, I moved on to the wave of soil - a larger area of color to troubleshoot and blend. Once you start working on an area like that, you don't want to stop - gotta keep blending before the paint dries. And, working on this part took me back into panel #3 again.
Then, I moved on to the cauliflower. I didn't like the highlight color I had used for the vegetable's leaves in the first layer - too blue. So, I mixed a bit more yellow in and that worked better. I also worked on the cauliflower itself, stippling with and a light purple for shading. There's still detailing to be done or adjusted there.
The last thing I did was to "plant some crops" in the far field. That took a little extra time because I tried a few different greens before I found something I liked.
I love seeing how everything is starting to build, little by little.
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Woohoo! I think I've done enough grape leaves for now and I'm ready to move on.
I even worked on the giant leaves behind the figures, but I started to run out of the "highlight" mixture. So, I may still go back to it...but probably on my last pass through of "final touches."
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Darn flash glare! Notice that I added a couple of leaves to
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For now, I think I'll move on to the rest of the panel - giant grape touch up, the female figure's dress, the tabletop (remember, there's supposed to be a bottle of wine there), and I need to fill their glasses. Then, on to the architecture around the chef, floor touch-up, a few more veggies and the splash. It may seem like just a little bit left, but there's still a lot to do in the first couple panels - there are supposed to be trees, details on the pumpkins (more leaves, and stems), and crops growing on the rows under the wave - things like that. But, after that, it's all touch up detailing. There's light at the end of the tunnel.
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The Library Lady sings The Pumpkin Song, a sweet, simple song used with success for library storytimes. She also posted pumpkin photos, including one of her fabulous display board. Thank you, Library Lady!As a memory jog, Lucia sang a Jack-o-Lantern song for this blog last year. I've linked that as well.
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This is a blast from the past, 1995 to be precise. When John managed Lode they used to make flyers to get people to come to their gigs. This was for Halloween and I turned each person from the band into a pumpkin :) Inara George was the lone girl in the band and she is the SKINNY pumpkin and all the rest are the boys: Gabe Cowan, Robin Moxey and Lon Baker. Sometimes the bands artist friends would make the flyers and sometimes John would come knocking on my door to ask if I could crank out a quick flyer to advertise the band and I would happily make art for the group. We did lots of them :) I kept them all because they were so talented and I knew they would make it and they have, just not together. Good Times. This incorporates Halloween and skinny in one fell swoop for Illustration Friday's "skinny" theme. Here is Lode courtesy of Geffen Records.
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Happy post-Halloween!
I hope everyone out there had a good one, with more giggles than tears. My kids are old enough that the holiday has lost some of the magic it once had, but also most of the headaches. This enables me to be Wise and Knowing about the holiday and to offer you a list of the resolutions I've made over the years regarding costumes and pumpkins. You can make the same ones for next year if things haven't gone smoothly at your house this year. (In the spirit of full disclosure I will note that I rarely managed to keep my resolutions the next year, but still...)
Alternatively, you can just indulge a few moments of feeling like a Halloween pro compared to me.
Resolution Number 1 I will be accepting of my child's costume choices.
...even if that means that Child A in the photo above chooses at the last minute to wear her big brother's tattered bat costume from the year before after I've spent weeks crafting a lovely, feminine Butterfly Fairy costume from yards of tulle and sequins and glitter. Even though I have been dying for a dose of girly after two boys, and even though all her friends are outfitted in tutus and tiaras, and even though she will then insist on wearing the bat costume daily right through the Christmas holidays when every other little girl we know is wearing velveteen and tights and sparkly hair bows.
...even if that means that Child B wants to be a praying mantis, a costume you cannot possibly buy ready-made and that is also insanely tricky to make and that absolutely no one can tell what it is. I will recognize that being unidentifiable is part of the appeal for some children and I will graciously make him a "black hole" costume the following year even though it is even more unidentifiable.
...even if Child C takes one look in the mirror, scares himself, and insists I wash off all his ghost make-up after I've spent nearly an hour carefully applying it to his directions and we are already running late for the school Halloween parade.
Resolution Number 2 I will remember th
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The Very Best Pumpkin by Mark Kimball Moulton, illustrated by Karen Hillard Good
This is a great fall story that focuses not on Halloween, but on pumpkins and autumn. It is a story about how one perfect pumpkin can create a new friend. Peter lives with his grandparents on Pumpkin Hollow Farm. They grow different crops other times of the year, but in the fall they specialize in pumpkins. Peter helps care for the pumpkins throughout the summer. One day when out in the field, he noticed a vine that went out of the field. Following it, he found a pumpkin all by itself. He started taking care of that pumpkin too. Nearby, a girl, Meg, moved into a new home and noticed Peter caring for his special pumpkin. But she stayed out of sight so he wouldn’t notice her. Peter also thought that no one was seeing him and his pumpkin. When it was time to harvest the pumpkins, Peter offered his special pumpkin to Meg and they both realized that this one secret pumpkin had already made them friends.
Moulton portrays an idyllic farm life in this book. Peter does work hard and diligently throughout the summer, so children will see that farming and growing plants does take time and care. There are several touches that make this book work very well. One is that the pumpkin is not the largest, but a special one that is perfectly round. Another is that there are wonderful moments in the text where pumpkins and autumn are dwelled on. The prose fills out with descriptions of the vines, the growing pumpkins, and the joy of the harvest.
Good’s illustrations bring a winning element to the book. Her illustrations are done on paper that is wonderfully splotched and textured, creating a real feeling of autumn as well as intriguing textures. On top of this interesting background, her illustrations are done in crisp black outlines and warm earthy colors. The friendly characters pop against the very natural feel of the book.
A great addition to fall story times and units, this book celebrates autumn in all of its colors. Appropriate for ages 4-6.
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A local church in the center of town has an annual Pumpkin Patch sale for the kiddies.
Yesterday was a clear, beautiful Fall day and the pumpkins beckoned me.
Here are a few shots I took.
And now, drumroll please as Emma chooses the winner of my notecard giveaway...
Grandpa's Pumpkin Patch was quite successful this year. We came home with a Suburban-load of pumpkins...some for us to paint, carve, and admire, and some to sell.
Here's Bubs...
Welly always finds her 'perfect little pumpkin' that can't be carved or in any way defiled.
Daddy found one to his liking, too. (When I asked him if I could post this picture, he said, "If it makes you happy." Isn't he great?)
Scrub-a-dub, Little Lovies...
I LOVE clouds.
Our entrepreneurial attempts weren't all tha
It’s after midnight, which means it’s officially October 31st. Happy Halloween! May your day be filled with pumpkins, treats, and people wearing interesting costumes. One of my favorite Halloween treats is roasted pumpkin seeds. YUM! If you’ve never made them before, here’s a recipe so you can try it this year. Pumpkin seeds are great to snack on while watching Halloweenie movies and TV shows, like It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Corpse Bride, Hocus Pocus, Sean of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, or Nightmare Before Christmas.
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Step One: Obtain pumpkin(s). Decorate or wait to carve them (I painted one of mine this year).
pumpkins!
Step Two: Put down newspaper. Get out carving tools and a large bowl to put the seeds in.
preparing for the pumpkin massacre
Step Three: Cut off top (or bottom) of pumpkin and separate the seeds from the gook.
we have seeds!
Step Four: Grease a cookie sheet with a coat of non-stick cooking spray and sprinkle with salt. Pour un-rinsed seeds* on to cookie sheet, sprinkle with salt, and bake at 250 degrees, stirring the seeds occasionally. Bake until golden brown and no longer wet. I usually taste them to make sure they are done. You should be able to smell them baking. *You can rinse the seeds if you want, but they have more pumpkin flavor if you don’t rinse them.
roasted pumpkin seeds - yum!
Step Five: Eat and enjoy. 
Happy Halloween everyone!!
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Hugely important points here, and given a context through the very real person of your charming young grandson. Happy birthday, Ruaridh, and happy reading, however old you grow.
Hooray for those School Library lobbyists too. Well done!
Lovely! And happy birthday!
Here's hoping the lobbyists are listened to, and well done for attending even when feeling poorly!
Happy Birthday Ruaridh! (What a lovely name.) Yes, yes and yes. Going to the library is one of my two's very favourite things. I, too, hope that will continue.