Fabuous & Fun with good food, good company, Christmas Cheer and lots of authors and illustrators at The Hughenden – Sarah Davis, Jenny Hale, Aleesah Darlinson, Mark Thomason … lots.Everyone was excited to have lovely illustrator and picture book writer Tina Burke fly in from Toronto Canada and New Zealand literary agent Frances Plumpton fly in from New Zealnd, as well as illustrator Lachlan Creagh from the Gold Coast for the Christmas party.
Deb Abela spoke enthusiastically about her beautiful book Aurelie and gave great insights from the reality of writing today where you have to market your book to having the passion to continue with your vision even when others reject it. The strength of Deb’s Aurelie is that it’s inspired by her beloved Grandma’s stories of ghosts and past lives.
It was a great celebration of the HOPE CARDS with Tina Burke and the designer, art director Jan Latta. Jan did a beautiful job and I couldn’t have done it without her, especially since I had no idea. I just made a call to authors & illustrators from around the world to send messages and illustrations of HOPE to the kids of the Australian Bush Fires in all shapes and form and the words and images came from Netherlands, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, many States in the USA …. and of course Australia.
Jan had a major task to get them in the right format. We had lots of consultations but it was worth it. The Hope Cards are beautiful, warm and encompass the love of the world’s authors & illustrators for the kids of the Victorian bush fires.
SCBWI Australia will be launching the Hope Cards for the anniversary of the Victorian Fires in 2010.
By: Susanne Gervay,
on 8/3/2009
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Jacqui Grantford 'Mona Lisa and her Beautiful Shoes'
These brilliant SCBWI Australia, illustrators proudly support the Children’s Book Council Queensland initiative of the creation of these crds to support the survivors of the 2009 Victorian bushfires and Queensland floods in Australia.
Purchase of these cards is through: CBC Queensland - htttp://qld.cbca.org.au
View the illustrations of Sarah Davis and Peter Taylor at The Hughenden www.thehughenden.com.au
By: Sondra Santos LaBrie,
on 2/28/2008
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From Unique Monique
Rosa
From Little Fish
Minji
From Minji's Salon
Maja
From Flusi the Sock Monster
Grace
From Are We There Yet?
Lisa
From And What Comes After a Thousand?
Ziba
From Ziba Came on a Boat
Nina
From Nina Bonita
Shau-Yu
From On My Way to Buy Eggs
Tina Burke's unnamed toddler
From Fly, Little Bird
Mi-chan
From Girl From the Snow Country
Anna
From You Be Me, I'll Be You
Sophie
From Sophie's Big Bed
Little Princess
From Wash Your Hands!
Say Please!
I Want My Potty
I Want My Pacifier
I Don't Want to Go to Bed
I Want My Tooth
Suzy Lee's adorable zoo visitor
From The Zoo
By: Anne Boles Levy,
on 11/30/2007
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Hug Time
by Patrick McDonnell
Little, Brown
My husband is a huge Mutts fan and wouldn't let me pan a book of McDonnell's even if he were capable of writing a bad one. Though this one leans a tad toward the pedestrian, if I can avoid getting shot at for saying so. Still, if I could say as much in so little space, I'd bottle his talent, sell stock in it, and retire to my own island.
So Hug Time doesn't rate with my all-time favorite of his, The Gift of Nothing, but it's a fine little book about dispensing full-frontal, no-holds-barred hugs. I don't know all the Mutts characters (being a relative newcomer to the McDonnell orbit), but a little kitty named Jules sets off on a round-the-world trip wearing a favorite sweater and carrying a hug-to-do list.
In rhyming quattrains, he meets up with a variety of animals, more than a few on the endangered list, and gives 'em a big ol' squeeze:
Exploring the rain forest by foot and canoe,
Jules discovered a species brand-new.
Kneeling, he whispered, "We welcome you."
Off to India--with its tigers so few,
Finding one is hard to do.
Okay, so there are better rhymers out there, and McDonnell isn't above some blatant sentimentality, especially considering his famed fondness for animals (he's on the board of directors of The Humane Society of the United States, among other accomplishments).
There's no real plot here--no conflict or mounting drama or discernible character arc. Still, 'tis the season for such things, and you could do worse than put a hug in someone's stocking.
Rating: *\*\
By: Julie Fortenberry,
on 9/24/2007
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An appreciation of Patrick McDonnell's picture books, by Adrienne Furness
and
Sounds from the Forest talks with Mary Anne Hoberman and Deborah Freedman (Brought to you by Just One More Book!!)
By: Julie Fortenberry,
on 4/9/2007
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A Fuse #8 Production: The Kidlit Tattoo Trend
I think this photo of a tattoo by Patrick McDonnell comes from his site muttscomics.com, but I really can't remember.