From Net Galley: 16 Top Covers for 2016
From Homemade: 12 spectacular gingerbread houses
From Brightly: 5 Books That Teach Kids What It Means to Be a Kind Person
From Giuseppe Castellano: 10 Mistakes Illustrators Make
From Zetta Elliott.com: 2016 MG & YA Titles by African Americans
From The Scottish Book Trust: The Writer's Guide to Staying Sane Over Christmas
From The Washington Post: 19 Books to help children find hope and strength in stressful times: A librarian's list
From PW: "Pinch Me, I'm Dreaming" More than a dozen children's book editors describe what it's like to work with writers whose books they loved as children.
From Muddy Colors: An Illustrated Ghost-Story of Christmas (some of the best-illustrated versions of A Christmas Carol!)
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From Muddy Colors - a great gift idea for artists: Making [Home-made] Walnut Ink - Groovy!
Pantone's Color of the Year has been announced: GREENERY
For the students and teachers among us, check out McSweeney's Post-Election College Paper Grading Rubric - hilarious!
From Brightly: Books Like Harry Potter: 10 Series to Read Next
From Muddy Colors: Things I Learned From Creating 122 Paintings in 11 Months - Greg Manchess on Above the Timberline
From 100 ScopeNotes: 2016 Librarian Lump of Coal Gift Guide
At Authors.me: Little Pickle Press is rebranding to March 4th
From Picture Book Builders: Four Part Series: Editors at the Top! (Begins with Neal Porter - read them all!)
From The Times: Books of the year: children's by Nicolette Jones
From Sotheby's: Icons of Children's Illustration (on auction!)
From EMUs Debuts and Debbi Michiko Florence: Great Gifts for Writers - good list!
From Bookshelf: Read Din bookcase and f Bodoni light - Oh! I want me one of these!!!
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From Bookshelf: 1,285 nails: Rocking chair bookcase - I want one of these!
From Giuseppe Castellano: The Illustrator's Portfolio - YES!
From AdWeek: Can You Figure Out the Mystery Inside This Remarkable Ad About High School Love? A message deeper than idle sketches By Tim Nudd - woah.
From Brightly: Books That Help Kids Walk in Someone Else's Shoes
From 99U: Take a Break: 5 Ways Freelance Creatives Make Unpaid Time Off Work
From Muddy Colors: Cory Godbey talks about Charles Vess' new book Walking Through the Landscape of Faerie of which I was lucky enough to see some of the originals when Charles visited Hollins University last summer!
For the budding Space Scientist in your life, check out NASA Astronaut Dr. Dave's TO BURP OR NOT TO BURP: A GUIDE TO YOUR BODY IN SPACE.
From 99U: Why Pride is Good
From GREAT!storybook: How to Overcome Depression and Write Again
From Treehugger: Artist repurposes vintage books as exquisite paper cups & bowls - gorgeous!
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From the New York Times: Notable Children's Books of 2016
At Fuse #8 - a new Walking and Talking Interview with Grace Lin - FABULOUS!
At Muddy Colors - Anita Kunz! Including a great video of her newest work
From The Federation of Children's Book Groups: NNFN: Illustrating innovative Non-Fiction - a guest post by Petr Horacek
From The Art Room Plant: Printing With Tissue Paper!
From 100 Scope Notes: The Ultimate Children's Literature Illustrator Gift Guide
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From The Federation of Children's Book Groups: NNFN: On illustrating non-fiction - a guest post by Anna Wright
Also from The Federation: The power of stories - A Guest post from Isabel Thomas
From the American Booksellers Association: Post-Election, Bookstores Offer Safe Spaces for Communities to Come Together
From Houzz: How to Help Others on #GiveingTuesday
From Kirkus: Their "Best Picture Books of 2016" list - click the logo to go see!
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From PW: PRH Starts Student Loan Repayment Program
From BBC News: Top authors call for school libraries to be protected
From The Brown Bookshelf: A Declaration in Support of Children
From SLJ, Betsy Bird's Fuse #8: The Slush Pile Myth
From James Gurney: 72 Tips for Sharing Art on Social Media
From NPR: Colson Whitehead, Representative John Lewis Among National Book Award Winners
From The Guardian: Hundreds of US children's authors sign pledge to tackle racism and xenophobia
From Custom-Writing.org: 200 Powerful Words to Use Instead of "Good" (Infographic)
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From BoingBoing: Noir and horror for your kindergartner (Chronicle's Melissa Manlove on Jon Klassen's I Want My Hat Back and This is Not My Hat.)
From The Toast: Children's Stories Made Horrific (a carryover from Halloween)
From 99U: Essential Steps to Making a Killer Portfolio
From Brightly: 10 of the Best Dragon Books for Kids :)
From The New York Times: The New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2016
At a loss - Make Good Art (Zenpencils.com)
From The Federation of Children's Book Groups: Michael Morpurgo receives the prestigious Action For Children’s Arts J M Barrie Award
From SLJ's 100 Scope Notes, Travis Jonker brings us The Children’s Literature Community Responds to the 2016 Presidential Election
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From The Hollywood Reporter: 'Tuck Everlasting' Author Natalie Babbitt Dies at 84
From the Chronicle Books Blog: The Surprisingly Complex Principles of a Successful Picture Book
From Chris Riddell: How Do You Close a Library?
From Nathan Bransford: 4 tips for extroverted writers
From Muddy Colors: Subconscious Inspiration - THIS is why I wanted to get my MFA in Europe!
From Read Brightly: Rad Women Your Girls (and Boys!) Should Read About
Also from Read Brightly: Don't Forget to Vote! 7 Picture Books About Elections and Voting
From Tracy Marchini (via Nathan Bransford): How can you tell if you're using picture book language?
From Treehugger.com: The beautiful Icelandic tradition of giving books on Christmas Eve: Book lovers will want to adopt this lovely holiday tradition, which melds literary and holiday pleasures into a single event.
An interesting Kickstarter: The Artist Within Vol 2, Artists Portraits in Their Studios
From Bright Group: Children's Book Awards and Why They Matter...
From Great!storybook: Frankfurt Book Fair 2016: why people come
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From Bored Panda: 15+ of the Most Creative Halloween Costumes - I like Peter and his shadow best!
Via Nathan Bransford: A fantastic diagram that breaks down The Big Five US Trade Book Publishers and their imprints. WOW!
From Nine Kinds of Pie: How to Read Harold (and the Purple Crayon)
From The Federation of Children's Book Groups - and idea to celebrate NATIONAL NON-FICTION NOVEMBER 2016
Nathan Bransford is blogging again and shared some awesome links:
From shouldiworkforfree.com - a handy dandy hilarious diagram mapping whether you should work for free or not
From bookends (a literary agency): Never Will You Just Write
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From The New Yorker: The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin
At HuffPost: The Latest Trend: Beautifully Illustrated Non-Fiction Picture Books
From 99U: Career-Propelling Money Advice for Creatives
From Digg: Paper Sculptures Made From Old Books Might Be The Best Way To Enjoy Literature
From Muddy Colors: (this may be a repeat, but deserves it) How to Invoice
From Muddy Colors: 20 Artists, from Photo to Final (!!!!)
From Steve Antony: My Guide to the Bologna Children's Book Fair - a while away, but good advice!
From Mile High Reading - Q&A With Adam Rex (Good!)
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From PW: We Need Diverse Books Launches Curated Books App
From HuffPost: Dragons, Fairies And Greek Gods - Why Should You Bother Sharing Old Stories With Your Kids?
From 99U: 5 Questions to Weigh When at a Career Crossroads
From 99U: The 5 Types of Personal Projects (And How You Can Justify Pursuing Them)
From The Bright Group: Tips for Illustrators: Make Your Online Illustration Portfolio Stand Out
From Picture Book Builders: Four Part Series: Editors at the Top! (Starting with Neal Porter)
At SLJ: D.I.Y. Censorship: An Infographic. Woah
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From Cynsations - In Memory, Barbara Seuling
At Houzz: The Science of Color: New Purple, Orange and Green Pigments Discovered (COOL!)
From Cynsations: Guest Post: Joy Preble on Life as an Author-Bookseller...or Bookseller-Author? VERY interesting! Wish it was longer!
From 100 Scope Notes: Name that Lego book cover - this is pretty cool. I wonder if this would be a philosophy for good design?
From The New Yorker: What Makes a Children's Book Good?
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From FastCompany (via Cynsations): 7 Surprising Facts About Creativity, According To Science
From Fuse #8: The Sibling Reality: When Picture Books Stop Being Nice and Start Getting Real
From Brightly: Remembering Anna Dewdney, Her Llamas, and the Love She Shared
From Brightly: Do You Know How Much I Love You? One Mom's Journey Raising a Child with Bipolar Disorder by Donna Gephart
From Salisbury University - RIP Dr. Ernie Bond - a true children's book advocate.
From Mr. Schu Reads: Library Magic | A Guest Post by Adam Shaughnessy
I love this Norse Crisis Flow Chart from the DC and Marvel Comics Fan Page:
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From GalleyCat: All About Roald Dahl: INFOGRAPHIC
From Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Chris Raschka (and Vera B. Williams') HOME AT LAST. I met Vera when she spoke at Kindling Words. By the end, I gave her a big hug and rubbed her back. I told her I was checking for wings. She truly was an angel.
From Writer unboxed: The Power of Myth in Fiction - about the false stories we believe - really interesting!
From The New Yorker: Cartoons about children's books - like this one:
From The Blabbermouth Blog: Guest Post Regarding Writing: Matt Bird & The Secrets of Story
From Flashbak: Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968)
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From Mother Jones: The Uncomfortable Truth About Children's Books: Attempts to diversify lily-white kid ilt have been, well, complicated.
From James Clear: Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.
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From The Guardian: Top 10 Scottish Picture Books
From 99U: Andrea Tsurumi: You’ll Never Have “Enough Time”: The prolific illustrator on how to keep a lid on it to avoid burnout.
From the booking biz: 21 Ways to Fund Author Visits
From PW: Pew Report: Overall Book Readership Holding Steady, but E-Books Have Stalled
From The Bookseller: Frith wins inaugural Klaus Flugge Prize for illustration
From Open Culture: 3,000 Illustrations of Shakespeare's Complete Works from Victorian England, Neatly Presented in a New Digital Archive
From Muddy Colors: Painting Short Hair, Fur, and Velvet
From Electric Lit: Infographic: How Long Did Famous Novels take to Write?
From Brightly: 13 Picture Books That Celebrate Hispanic Heritage
And don't forget my books - click the covers to learn more!
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From PW: We have lost children's author, illustrator and educator Anna Dewdney of Llama, llama fame
From GrammarCheck: 5 Bad Writing Habits You Can Break Today
From CBC/Diversity: Daniel Nayeri: How I Got Into Publishing
From SLJs 100 Scope Notes: The Most Astonishingly Unconventional Children's Books of 2016
From NoFilmSchool: Martin Scorsese Breaks Down the Difference Between Story & Plot
From WritingMad: 10 Tips to Nail your First Chapter #writing
From Slate: Books Your Kids Will Actually Like, Chosen by the People Who Know
From The Scottish Book Trust: 13 picture books that use pages creatively
From The Children's Book Review: Best New Picture Books | September 2016
James Mayhew: A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS: THE TRUE COST OF BARGAIN BOOKS
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From SLJ's Fuse #8: When Celebrity Picture Books Go Kuh-kuh-kuh-KRAZY!
From TES: The YA fan hits back: 'Sorry, Mr Nutt, you clearly don't understand the value of teen literature'
From 99U: Why Every Artist Should Be a Great Storyteller
From SCBWI British Isles: To Share or Not to Share
From Muddy Colors: Painting Progression - Yuki (WOW)
From Inkygirl: Want to support an author's or illustrator's new book but can't afford to buy it? Here's what you can do.
From Tech Insider: The 13 Most Innovative Schools In The World
From Open Culture: Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children's Books, All Digitized and Free to Read Online (!!!)
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From Nightlight: How Did Children's Literature Evolve From Prim Morality Tales to the Likes of Captain Underpants?
From Muddy Colors: 2016 Sketchbook Preview: The Gryphon Hunters and Other Adventures by Justin Gerard and Fairy Tales and Folklore by Annie Stegg Gerard
From K.D. Rausin (via Emma Dryden): The Importance of Getting Up and Trying Again
From The City of Lost Books: W.W. Tarn, The Treasure of the Isle of Mist
From The Sydney Morning Herald: The Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year Awards: the winners your kids must read
From Brain Pickings: Neil Gaiman on Why We Read and What Books Do for the Human Experience
From The Scottish Book Trust: Michael Morpungo on Finding The Right Place to Write
From The Guardian: Terry Pratchett's 'artist of choice' on illustrating Discworld: As the Discworld Colouring Book is published, Paul Kidby, who illustrated the hugely popular novels for more than 20 years, recalls how attending a book signing changed his life
From Julia Donaldson at Kirkus on Going Graphic
From the Society of Visual Storytelling: 3rd Thursday Critiques (via Will Terry)
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From The New Yorker: (Children's) Books Just for Grown-Ups (retitled classics)
From PW: Holiday House Changes Hands
From There's a Book for That: Big Questions: Picture Books That Inspire Philosophical Discussion #pb10fro10 2016
From CNN Style: This lab is capturing pollution and turning it into paint - very cool!
From SLJ: How Canada Publishes So Many Diverse Children's Books
From The Scottish Book Trust: How Picture Books Can Help Us Make Sense of the World
From The Society of Illustrators: The Original Art 2016 36th Annual Exhibition
From Noblemania (via Fuse #8): Guess the kidlit desks contest - fascinating peek at people's creative work places!
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From Slate: Welcome to Slate's Children's Book Blog, Nightlight!
From Steve McEllistrem: Why Don't We Read Anymore?
Mojomaca (a.k.a. Maurie Manning) shares a quick digital watercolor demo using the amazing Rebell software by Escape Motions on YouTube
From Thought Catalog: 21 Harsh But Eye-Opening Writing Tips From Great Authors
Rethinking The Future: Amazing Cardboard House Exhibition
From NN/g: Design Thinking 101
From Muddy Colors: Artist of the Month: Phillip Glass
From the Directory of ILlustration: World ILlustration Awards 2016 Winners Announced
From The Huff Post: First Half Recap of 2016 Picture Books
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At Muddy Colors: Jack Davis (1924-2016) with an interview with Stan Lee
From 99U: The Future of Design (and how to prepare for it)
From 99U: You're Never Too Young (or Old) to Mentor
From Studio With a View: Storytime in the Dome
From emu's debuts: Pat Zietlow Miller (Sophie's Squash) on It takes a village ... to write a book
From The Telegraph: The strange life of Beatrix Potter - how rabbits (and mushrooms) set her free
From 99U: The Braggart's Dilemma: How to Promote Yourself Without Being a Jerk
From Muddy Colors: Kinetic Sculpture - Gads, these are beautiful!
From Bottom Shelf Books: Willems Shakespeare presents: Hamlet (starring the Pigeon) (Mo Willem's Pigeon plays Hamlet)
From Minh Le Books: Hamilton: Now starring Elephant and Piggie
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From Ursula K. Le Guin's Book View Café: The Big Book of Earthsea - reveal of the upcoming book illustrated by Charles Vess
From The Atlantci: Where Books Are All But Nonexistent (book deserts)
From Wheeler Studio: Tell Me a Tattoo Story
From Nevada Today: Books in the home as important as parents' education level
From The Telegraph: Lauren Child's 14 favourite children's books
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From GalleyCat: The Fascinating Work Habits of 18 Famous Writers
From Muddy Colors: Textures and Hands
From DesignContest: 5 Must Watch TED Talks for Designers
From Publishing Perspectives: 30,000-Euro Global Illustration Award Debuts at Frankfurt Book Fair
From Illusalon: Global Illustration Award
From The Federation of Children's Book Groups: Guest post from Steven Lenton: Becoming a picture book illustrator
From 99U: Why Every Creative Needs to Be a Great Storyteller
From Muddy Colors: Why All Storytellers Should Tell Children's Stories
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From The Itch of Writing: Filtering: HD For Your Writing (On show vs. tell)
From Muddy Colors: ICON Illustration Convention - GREAT article!
From 99U: Do You Have to Be a Jerk to Be Successful?
From BrainPickings.org: A Short Guide to a Happy Life: Anna Quindlen on Work, Joy, and How to Live Rather Than Exist
From Will Terry: How To Break Into Children's Book Illustration - click the image to go watch on Youtube.
From MIT Technology Review: Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling
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