October 4th is Vanessa Newton Day! Please join me in wishing her a very happy birthday. My family and I are lucky enough to have four of Vanessa's original collages hanging in our living room... each bear represents a member of our family and we just love them:
If you're not familiar with Vanessa's work, you can check out her blog.
Better yet, you should buy her latest children's book, Let Freedom Sing!
Vanessa, happy birthday from the girls and me. Hope your day is awesome!
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Blog: ERIC BARCLAY (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Author: Vanessa Newton (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Vanessa Newton
Published: 2009 Chronicle Books (on JOMB)
ISBN: 9781934706909
Spot-on sixties-style illustrations, simple, springboard text and a soulful, sing along refrain shine a celebratory light on 18 individuals who stood tall and opened doors for generations.
More freedom reading on JOMB:
- Night Running: How James Escaped with the Help of His Faithful Dog
- Priscilla and the Hollyhocks
- Freedom Child of the Sea
- Follow the Drinking Gourd
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A huge CONGRATULATIONS goes out to the amazing and talented Vanessa Newton on completion of her first picturebook LET FREEDOM SING. The book will be available this fall through Blue Apple Books. Vanessa is the illustrator of Derrick Barnes’s Scholastic series, RUBY AND THE BOOKER BOYS!
Her work is so stylish and fresh just like her personality! You will fall in love…I have!
You can see more of Vanessa’s work at her Web site listed above or at www.painted-words.com.
Great illo, Eric!
Wow, those pictures from Vanessa is so cute and colorful, very lucky to have a sister friend like her!
auguri, Vanessa!
auguri dall'italia!!!
;) Wished her one!
Love her work, and love yours too! Keep 'em comin!