By: David Elzey,
on 7/9/2008
I'm a particular fan of American history in that I'm particular about the parts I like. It isn't an ideological divide as much as it is that there are certain periods that appeal to me for some reason. I'm fond of the colonialists and the American Revolution, but for the stories of the smaller moments and not the battles. I also have a soft spot for the socialist movement of the 1930's and
By: David Elzey,
on 3/6/2008
written and illustrated by Alice Melvin Tate Publishing UK 2007 The English alphabet is only 26 letters. There's only so much you can do with an alphabet book. Not that people haven't found ways to make an alphabet book informative (Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehrlet), thematic (C is for Caboose, about trains, and A is for Astronaut, about space, both by Chronicle Books), and they can
By: David Elzey,
on 1/9/2008
Benny and Penny in Just Pretend by Geoffrey Hayes Otto's Orange Day written by Jay Lynch illustrated by Frank Cammuso Toon Books/RAW Junior 2007 In a word: Disappointing. The first releases in a new imprint from he editorial team of Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman are probably best described as comic books packaged as graphic novels for the younger set. If they didn't have such a high
By: Ginger Nielson,
on 11/24/2007
From an interior spread for the book I just illustrated and now available from Stagger Lee Books "Song For A Giraffe"
It took almost a year to complete the illustrations for this book and this image is actually much larger as the giraffe and the text for this spread aren't included here. The research was one of the best parts of the whole experience. I learned so much!
©Ginger Nielson2007
PS... if you want to hear what the animals are singing, just go to my PROFILE section on this blog and play the Audio Clip.
By: Ginger Nielson,
on 10/10/2007
By: Ginger Nielson,
on 10/10/2007
By: April Henry,
on 5/19/2007
Melissa Lion, author of the YA books Swollen and Upstream, has some great advice for how authors can enlist bookstore staff to help their careers (for starters, realizing it's a mutual relationship). She has been a bookseller for five years, but at the end of the month will switch to being a full-time author.
Read her top 10 tips here.
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By: Paige Keiser,
on 4/27/2007
Here are a couple warm-up drawings before I work on an assignment today. Also have to finish cleaning my studio--I just don't know what to do with all these picture books! I could practically make a whole kid's library out of it all. They're under my bead, on shelves, in Target plastic bins. Phew!
I must have this book. For my kids. But it IS really a shame that it wasn't spiral-bound (or otherwise bound to allow for opening flat as well as buttons and the like). Perhaps the whole thing could be taken apart and rebound? Now that would be a craft project.