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Blog: Illustration for Kids Blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I enjoyed working on this cartoony spread for Group! The spread and some take-outs, below…
Blog: Creative Whimsies (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Check my Let's Make Stuff page for directions on how to make a paper campfire with your young friends and family members. Very cute and you can use it as a fire starter when you go camping.
It's KBWT! I'd like to feature Kathy Ross' website as the Kids Book Website for today. Kathy has written slews and slews of books about making crafts with kids, or about kids making crafts. Her crafts often use items that other people will toss away. Some of her crafts are SO clever and SO easy that I am speechless with wonder. To be completely unbiased, I have to admit that a few of her crafts do not appeal to me. But every single one of her books has several crafts that I wish I had thought up first.
So many craft books for kids result in "cute" things that are really more about technique and/or about keeping the kids busy than they are about making something useful. Kathy Ross' crafts often have a play or gift component. The Comet Balls from her book Crafts for Kids Who Are Wild about Outer Space are a good example. (Sadly, the book is no longer in print.) We made those last week for the Stories in the Schools. They are simple aluminum foil balls with ribbon tails that allow children to toss the balls and catch them by the tails. So easy to do. So cute. Have I been effusive enough? Check out the website. Look for Kathy's books at the bookstore or library tonight!
Blog: PW -The Beat (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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February has only 28 days, but is jam-packed with lots of great graphic novels and related titles!
Warning… looking at what appears so far on BarnesAndNoble.com, the rest of 2011 is going to be just as amazing! Click this link
to discover more! (Sweet Kirby Crackle! Corto Maltese, in English, from Rizzoli?!) Better start shopping for bookshelves now.Since this list takes a lot of work, I will not be adding hyperlinks to the publishers or BN.com. Most browsers allow you to search directly just by highlighting a term, or feel free to cut and paste into whichever web browser you prefer.
As always, I work for Barnes & Noble, but do not speak for them. These are titles which caught my interest, and are worth a closer work. I have not read any of these books (perhaps a comic here or there) so do not endorse any specific title on this list. My tastes are not yours, so please recommend other titles below in the comments! Also, the information below is subject to change. Covers, publication dates, prices, formats… all data are subject to changes.
The Last Unicorn
by Peter S. Beagle, Peter Gillis, Renae DeLiz (Artist), Ray Dillon (Artist)
- $ 24.99
- Pub. Date: February 2011
- Publisher: Idea & Design Works, LLC
- Format: Hardcover, 152pp
- ISBN-13: 9781600108518
- ISBN: 1600108512
Stolen Hearts: The Love of Eros and Psyche
by Ryan Foley, Sankha Banerjee (Illustrator)
- $ 11.99
- Pub. Date: February 2011
- Publisher: Steerforth Press
- Format: Paperback , 88pp
- ISBN-13: 9789380028484
- ISBN: 9380028482
Lady Vivian Hastings: Long John Silver Volume 1
by Xavier Dorison, Mathieu Lauffray (Illustrator)
- $ 13.95
- Pub. Date: February 2011
- Publisher: Cinebook, LTD
- Format: Paperback, 56pp
- ISBN-13: 9781849180627
- ISBN: 1849180628
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Blog: Neil Gaiman (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Also, a reminder, as it is now out in paperback in the USA: you can watch (or listen) to me reading the entirety of The Graveyard Book for Free at http://www.mousecircus.com/videotour.aspx
Blog: The Art of Phyllis Hornung Peacock (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Here I am again posting winter-themed paintings in the middle of the summer. Perhaps it's more wishful thinking on my part. I'll have to see if this trend continues over the next few years...
This piece was another private commission which came together in an interesting way. We started with about five loose thumbnail sketches all quite similar and based on the idea of a winter campfire. My client picked out the characters she liked best and then we arranged them into one cohesive scene. Amazingly, all the chosen characters fit together quite easily and required only minimal adjust to make the scene work.
I really enjoyed painting the snowy background in this painting. One thing I especially like to paint is moonlit clouds. Somewhere along the way I began referring to moonlit clouds, both real-life and painted, as "Buehner clouds" as I think illustrator Mark Buehner is the master of moonlit clouds.
Getting back to summer and a brief update on our swallow neighbors (see previous post) - the pair successfully raised five baby birds all of whom have since left the nest. We feel so privileged that we got to watch them grow up:What's really surprising to us is that almost as soon as the babies left the nest, the mating pair started on a new family. The nest is up too high for us to peek into, but with the use of a mirror we could see the new eggs:
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Blog: The Excelsior File (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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and Other Warped and Creepy Talesby David LubarTom Doherty / 2007Why have I waited two years to review this book? I think it was because it got lost in one of the many piles of books, later to be hidden during moving. But part of me wonders if I didn't deliberately and subconsciously hide this book away. Because I was embarrassed? Because I was offended? Insulted? None of these.It's because
Blog: RANDOM WRITING (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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1. Last night, we had a huge bonfire to commemorate the end of the 2008 camping season.
Over 50 people joined us! I chatted with the kids, and they admitted to being a little sad at having to close up their campers for the winter. One little guy said he couldn't wait to do more recreation next summer.
It's nice to know we're doing something right!
2. I have an Aunt who's in the hospital and very, very sick. Say a little prayer please. When I was young, she and her husband used to take my cousin Debbie and I for weekends at a time and spoil us rotten. I especially remember playing Monopoly! Uncle Gunner was ruthless in a funny way - while Aunt Nancy would hand over any piece of property we asked for.
She made the best blueberry pancakes back then too! Yum!
3. Things are looking pretty empty around here . . .
I've said goodbye sooooo many times over the last two days.
I'm horrible at saying goodbye.
4. I'm going to a wedding this coming weekend! I have a cute little black dress I bought last spring for $3!! I went out this week and bought black shoes and a black wrap . . .
The dress is blue in the sunlight.
Sigh.
I have some more shopping to do.
5. I've managed to complete two out of my three goals for JoNoWriMO (writing challenge). And beginning this week, I'll get started on the third!
Having to work this fall as hubby's assistant, I probably won't be able to finish the rewrite, but I'll get a great head start!
Happy Columbus Day everyone!
Blog: RANDOM WRITING (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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What a pretty weekend we've had. Especially considering they predicted rain. That's twice in a row now they've been wrong. And campers wonder why we don't refund based on weather. Just wait a minute . . . it'll change!
It was very low key here at the campground, but the weekends before a holiday usually are. I have a feeling people say to themselves, "If I'm going to play next weekend, I better stay home and ___(insert some household chore/yard work here)___ this weekend."
It was so quiet, in fact, I even managed to sit by one of these
Storytelling over the dancing, crackling flames of a campfire is such an age old tradition, isn't it? Friends sitting in a circle, catching up on their lives, sharing laughs or worries. Words flow back and forth, swirling around like the smoke from the fire.
Nothing's better than a campfire on a cool spring night.
Unless, of course, your adorable son is sharing some of these . . .
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Author: Park, Linda Sue
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Reading Level: 3rd to 6th grade
Pages: 48Publisher: Clarion
Edition: Hardcover
I am absolutely delighted and pleased by the collection of Sijo poetry (a traditional Korean form of short poems) paired with playful and often surprising illustrations. It will be fun to see children and grownups trying their hands on creating this kind of poems!
Ohemgeeeee Laura! This is adorable!! Bravo!
They look fantastic!!!