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1. Escaping Conflict, Seeking Peace: Picture books that relate refugee stories, and their importance
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By: Marjorie Coughlan, on 11/20/2015
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JacketFlap tags:  Shaun Tan, Ziba Came on a Boat, Eve Bunting, Karen Lynn Williams, Khadra Mohammed, The Arrival, Holiday House, Catherine Stock, Ted Lewin, Robert Ingpen, Liz Lofthouse, Michelle Lord, Shino Arihara, Mary Hoffman, Four Feet Two Sandals, One Green Apple, John Marsden, R. Gregory Christie, IBBY Congress, Susan Guevara, Tony Johnston, Tilbury House, Jude Daly, Frances Lincoln, Playing War, Clarion Books, Shen's Books, Linda Gerdner, Sarah Langford, A Song for Cambodia, Rukhsana Khan, Matt Ottley, Home and Away, Karin Littlewood, The Colour of Home, Lea Lyon, Jeremy Brooks, Let There be Peace: Prayers from Around the World, The Island, Cinco Puntos Press, Sarah Garland, Armin Greder, Doug Chayka, Annemarie Young, Anthony Robinson, June Allan, children's books about refugees, Ronald Himmler, Pegi Deitz Shea, children's books about peace, Stuart Loughridge, Allen & Unwin, Azzi In Between, Tamarind Books, MWD article, Lee & Low (US), Grandfather's Story Cloth / Yawg Daim Paj Ntaub Dab Neeg, Eerdman's Publishing, Mohammed’s Journey: A Refugee Diary, Lothian Books, children's books about war, Voice from Afar: Poems of Peace, The Roses in My Carpets, Ben Morley, Boyd's Mill Press, Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan, Carl Pearce, Chue and Nhia Thao Cha, Debra Reid Jenkins, Dia Cha, Dia's Story Cloth: The Hmong People's Journey to Freedom, Frances Park & Ginger Park, Gervalie's Journey: A Refugee Diary, Joyce Herold, Kathy Beckwith, Mali Under the Night Sky: A Lao Story of Home, Mary Williams, Meltem's Journey: A Refugee Diary, My Freedom Trip, My Name is Sangoel, The Silence Seeker, The Whispering Cloth, Viking (Australia), You Yang, Youmi, Poetry, Young Adult, Anita Riggio, Picture Books, Articles, Non-Fiction, Middle-Grade, Add a tag

This article was a presentation given at the 2012 IBBY Congress in London, first posted here and developed from a PaperTigers.org Personal View, “Caught up in Conflict: Refugee stories about and for young people“.
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2. Holiday Book Favorites with Sherri L. Smith, Author of The Toymaker’s Apprentice
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By: Guest Posts, on 10/22/2015
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JacketFlap tags:  Holiday Gift Guide Kids Books, Ralph Manheim, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Christmas, Book Lists, Susan Cooper, The Nutcracker, Maurice Sendak, Sherri L. Smith, featured, Jaime Zollars, Margaret K. McElderry Books, Robert Ingpen, Charles Dickens, Clement C. Moore, Clarion Books, Kate Milford, Crown Books, Seasonal: Holiday Books, Sterling Children's Books, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, Best Kids Stories, Add a tag

Sherri L. Smith, author of The Toymaker's Apprentice, selected these five holiday book favorites.

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3. Awarded Children’s Information Books
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By: [email protected], on 5/19/2015
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JacketFlap tags:  Book News, coming of age, Emu, CBCA, robert ingpen, Hans Christian Andersen Award, Book Reviews - Childrens and Young Adult, Joy Lawn, Tea and Sugar Christmas, Eve pownall Information books, Audacity: Stories of Heroic Australians in Wartime, Mary's Australia, The A to Z of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land, Add a tag

This year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Eve Pownall Award for Information Books forms an impressive list. Four of the six titles focus on an aspect of Australian history. Emu (one of the ‘Nature Storybooks’ series from Walker Books) is natural history, however, and upholds the quality of last year’s Crichton and Queensland Literary […]

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4. Christmas Countdown – Kids’ reads to keep you calm and collected
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By: [email protected], on 11/9/2014
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If you’re already thinking how to fill the sleigh this Christmas, climb on in and assume the brace position because it’s only 44 more days until Christmas. Yes! As terrifying as that may sound, here are three fantastic new reads to lessen the impact. They are cheerfully Christmassy, are already, or destined to be classics […]

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5. Kids’ Christmas Books, 2010: For the Naughty & Nice
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By: Phoebe, on 11/22/2010
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By Bianca Schulze and Phoebe Vreeland, The Children’s Book Review
Published: November 22, 2010

Last year, Lauren Thompson’s holiday book, The Christmas Magic, let us in on one of Santa’s little secrets: Santa gets a “tingling in his whiskers” when the Christmas magic is on its way. I believe that the tingling has begun. Perhaps even a little jingling, too!

From nicely illustrated carols to tales for the naughty and nice, our holiday gift to you is this list of wonderful Christmas books.

It’s Christmas, David!

by David Shannon

Reading level: Ages 3-7

Hardcover: 32 pages

Publisher: The Blue Sky Press (September 1, 2010)

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Publisher’s synopsis: Readers of all ages will vividly remember trying to peek at hidden gift packages; writing scrolls of wish lists to Santa; and struggling to behave at formal Christmas dinner parties. Always in the background, we know Santa Claus is watching, soon to decide if David deserves a shiny new fire truck or a lump of coal under the tree. From playing with delicate ornaments to standing in an endlessly long line for Santa, here are common Christmas activities–but with David’s naughty trimmings. A surefire hit that is destined to be an annual classic.

Note: Fans of No, David! will be thrilled with Shannon’s latest addition. Pairing it with Too Many Toys would make a great gift. It’s Christmas, David is also available in Spanish.

Add this book to your collection: It’s Christmas, David! or llego La Navidad, David! (Spanish Edition)

From nicely illustrated carols to tales for the naughty and nice, our holiday gift to you is this list of wonderful Christmas books.

The Twelve Days of Christmas in Washington, DC

by Candice Ransom (Author), Sarah Hollander (Illustrator)

Reading level: Ages 5-7

Hardcover: 32 pages

Publisher: Sterling (October 5, 2010)

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6. Gift Books Guide: Classic Literature & Fairy Tales
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By: Bianca Schulze, on 11/10/2010
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JacketFlap tags:  Classics, Fairy Tales, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Hans Christian Andersen, Alison Jay, Brothers Grimm, Robert Ingpen, Astrid Lindgren, Lauren Child, Ages Four to Eight: Books for pre-school to second grade, Goodie Bag: Books to share and give, Ages Nine to Twelve: Books for third through sixth grade, Book Lists: Specialty picks, Picture Book - Wordless, Lisbeth Zwerger, Bernadette Watts, Sylvia Long, Tina Nunally, Charles Santore, Dorothée Duntze, J. M. Barrie, Add a tag

Classic Treats That Never Grow Old

By Bianca Schulze & Phoebe Vreeland, The Children’s Book Review
Published: November 6, 2010

You love to give books as gifts, but you want to give a book that will be cherished and kept to be shared with future generations. Right? What you’re looking for is a classic. Something well-written, tried and tested, but perhaps with updated illustrations that will tantalize any young mind. Feast your eyes on the following delights …

Snow White: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm

by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Charles Santore (Illustrator)

Reading level: Ages 6-9

Hardcover: 48 pages

Publisher: Sterling (October 5, 2010)

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Complete with a beautifully patterned ribbon marker, this is a nice retelling of the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale, Snow White, illustrated by award-winning artist Charles Santore. Santore has also illustrated an Aesop’s Fables, The Wizard of Oz and  The Little Mermaid.

Add this book to your collection: Snow White: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm

Rapunzel

by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (Authors), Dorothée Duntze (Illustrator)

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Hardcover: 24 pages

Publisher: North-South Books (September 1, 2005)

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A softer version of the original Grimm tale. The illustrations are happy and sunny.

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Aesop’s Fables

Selected and illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Hardcover: 32 pages

Publisher: North-South Books; illustrated edition edition (April 1, 2006)

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This is not the ultimate collection of Aesop’s Fables, however, it is a cleanly illustrated compendium carefully selected by the uber-award-winning artist Lisbeth Zwerger.

Add this book to your collection: Aesop’s Fables

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7. Seven Stories, the Centre for Children’s Books, UK
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By: Aline Pereira, on 5/14/2009
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Ten days ago I reported on the Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Book Award Presentation, which took place at Seven Stories, The Centre for Children’s Books in Newcastle, UK – and I definitely want to tell you more about this wonderful place! We’re lucky – we live reasonably close to Newcastle, though far enough away that it took us a few years of living here to get ourselves there, which we did in the last school-holidays. I now know that the path will start to become a well-travelled one…

The name of Seven Stories not only refers to the axiom that there are but seven stories in the world told in an infinite variety of ways, but is also played out in the Centre’s daily life: it is housed in a seven storey building that is open seven days a week for a seven hours a day.

The late-nineteenth-century building was originally a mill warehouse. Many original features have been restored and the interior spaces have been designed with imagination and children in mind. The criss-cross of original beams in the top-floor room, beautiful to behold, also gives you a start, as you realise that there is a weird, curvy beam, winding its way through all the other beams – what structural use can it possibly be? Aaah – it is a bookshelf! And as it snakes its way down almost to floor-level, it houses enough copies of Julia Donaldson’s Playtime! for young visitors (and older ones too!) to come together and put on a play in the theatre corner, with the help of a sumptuous array of costumes. These include Donaldson’s and Axel Sheffler’s creation, the Gruffalo and the Mouse (and by the way, read this lovely interview with Julia Donaldson by Vulpis Libris - Part 1 and Part 2). Under this panoply of beams are also to be found a story-teller’s area complete with its exuberant throne, and a vast selection of books for a family storytime.

The current exhibitions are All Aboard, Away We Go! and From Toad Hall to Pooh Corner – both a feast for the eyes, ears and hands, and each with its own beautifully produced interactive trail. During our family visit, we chanted Mrs Armitage’s Mantra (“What we need, what we really need…”) and flew a plane while marvelling at Robert Crowther’s intricate paper-engineering from his book Flight. We discovered new-to-us old stories, like The Little Train, ostensibly by Dorothy Craigie but really written by Graham Greene and illustrated by Dorothy Glover (read this great post from Bear Alley for the full story…). We toot-tooted our way to (imaginary!) destruction in Toad’s car and, the highlight for me, we gazed on original’s of Robert Ingpen’s beautiful illustrations for Wind in the Willows, then looked at them in the book, while listening to the appropriate extract, seated in a replica, from the illustration, of Badger’s kitchen. Perfect!

I was astounded, when speaking to Lynda Jackson, Seven Stories’ Exhibitions Curator, to discover that these exhibitions are not permanent but usually run for about eighteen months – and the really good news is that they can tour elsewhere after their space in Newcastle has been taken over by something else… And I was given a sneak preview of what the next something else, From The Tiger Who Came to Tea to Mog and Pink Rabbit: A Judith Kerr Retrospective, will look like. So we’ll definitely be going back in September and I’ll tell you all about it!

In the meantime, I’ll be posting again soon about Seven Stories, with a closer look at its background and its role as a keeper of British children’s books, not to mention its superb children’s bookshop.

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8. The High Life
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By: Paintgranny, on 6/5/2008
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'Oooh it must be lovely to be a children's illustrator'...yes, it certainly beats mowing graveyards, washing up, cleaning, selling pine furniture and stacking supermarket shelves, all of which I have done in my time until fairly recently. These jobs all have one thing in common - a regular (if not gargantuan) wage. But next time you pick up a picture book, ponder this: for every pretty picture there will have been hours, days or even weeks of brainstorming, rough sketching, too-ing and fro-ing between artist/art director and maybe others, not to mention the final art work. There is the design, the text setting, the layout, the choice of paper/book size, the printing and colour proofing; it often takes about 14 months or so for a book to come to the shelf, and that is on a good day - sometimes it can take years. But not in my case.

It has to be art worked by the second week in July. So, a last minute request from my lovely publishers, to thrash out the first half of the project meant that I found my self travelling (via motorbike and train) to the outskirts of London, and a meeting with my Art Director. If you had to have classes in 'How to be a Brilliant Art Director', she would be the model example. We've known each other for quite a while now, and the first hour or so was spent yakkering about juicy news, all of which made me practically faint with excitement and none of which must pass my lips until it is in the public domain. With the yakkering came a shower of hardback picture books; many of my favourite illustrators work with Templar, including Alison Jay, who creates some of the most gorgeous images, using lush, rich colours; I can lose myself in her work...




Soon I had a comforting stack of bookish treasure to take home, including a limited edition of 'Varmints' signed (SIGNED!!!!) by the wonderful author/illustrator Helen Ward (article link) and Marc Craste.





You know the to-die-for Lloyds Bank adverts? That's him. Stunning work. Invent a new word for it, stunning is not enough.




If you like Shaun Tan's work, you will love this - buy it. Just buy it. It is marvellous.


Templar Publishing have relocated from a lovely converted Mill to an equally delightful old Granary, so there was a tour of the new premises and I was introduced to the members of the production team for my small contribution to their new list - the production room being very large and a quiet bustle of designers and creatives working away on numerous titles. Up to the top level, where the art directors roost - and finding a few familiar faces last seen in the wee hours of the morning round a camp fire at the brilliant Templar party, two years ago. Having said that my AD is marvellous, it should be added that Templar, as a company, not only produce some of the finest, most innovative books in the UK, but are a shining light in what can be a pretty cut-throat business. Publishers - especially the very big ones, who are more like corporations - sadly do not always treat their freelancers as well as they could do. There are horror stories...but Templar are wonderfully friendly, inclusive, respectful and all round Good Eggs.



'Wizardology' from the famous 'ology' series. Website at www.ologyworld.com


Back down to the senior AD's office, (another familiar face) and more heart-palpitating inside knowledge about future publications (I have now stitched my lips together, so don't even ask!) and finally back to the board room and a highly intense, enjoyable three hour session spent working out the details of the new book. We were so absorbed we lost track of time, and thinking it must be about midday and time for lunch, we were startled to find it was nearly two...





Lunch was an informal but delicious affair at Pizza Express, courtesy of Templar and there was more - much more - chattering. About two hours later we sleepily emerged, full of garlicky carbs, and strolled back through Dorking Center, past the old church with its albino squirrel, to collect my large pile of work-to-do and of course, my books.




The final cherry on what had been a monumental gateaux cake of a day was bumping into one of my all time favourite illustrators - and his agent - Simon Bartram. We shook hands and I went all quiet and shy and went a bit pink; as you do when you meet one of your heroes. (Earlier I had also had the privilege of seeing some of his original artwork for his next book, which was breathtaking).


More Alison Jay: baby board books in a box - absolutely delightful!

I managed to get my precious books all packed and waterproofed (another British summer and therefore a seasonally rainy day). I made the trek back home, finally arriving, after two crowded trains and a bus, in Witney at 8pm (having left home at 6.15 that morning) and was whisked back via motorbike through wet, green country lanes, home. Wonderful home.

Through my little visit, I snagged another toy order; I'm trying to get the needle felting done at night after I've spent a good stint in the studio and I am going to be somewhat absorbed until mid-summer. But yes, on the whole, it IS lovely being a children's illustrator. Toymaker. Card company. Gardener. Head Cake-Maker. Housewife.



'The Wind in the Willows' illustrated by the Great Robert Ingpen. My favourite book. Ever.


"Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way...shabby indeed, and small and poorly furnished, and yet his, the home he had made for himself, the home he had been so happy to get back to after his day's work..."
excerpt, 'Dolce Domum' , Wind in the Willows

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9. Bologna Children’s Book Fair!
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By: Aline Pereira, on 4/13/2008
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bologna_logo.jpgAh, Bologna!

Aline and I have much to tell about our fantastic trip to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair at the beginning of this month. There really is no better event to take the pulse of the children’s book publishing world: and what a world that is!

We’ve met so many interesting people and enjoyed putting faces to names of organisations and publishers; we’ve attended inspiring presentations; and have been dazzled by the quality and endlessly varied styles of the illustrations we’ve come across, both in the books we have browsed through and as part of the fair’s special exhibits. The overall impression was of immense industry – people in deep discussion, buying and selling rights; looking through artists’ portfolios; rushing between presentations – what a buzz!

Over the next few weeks, Aline and I will be posting on a variety of topics. In the meantime, here are some of the highlights for us, in no particular order:

Looking at the proofs for Ed Young’s new book, Wabi Sabi (written by Mark Reibstein);
Meeting librarians from all over the world at a session organised by the IFLA (International Federation of Libraries Associations and Institutions) – so lively that we were asked to be quiet…! – and hearing IBBY President and Canadian Groundwood Books publisher, Patricia Aldana’s presentation entitled “Books as Mirrors”;
Attending the launch of the International Youth Library’s White Ravens 2008 catalog;
Listening to poets Michael Rosen (UK Children’s Laureate) and Jorge Lujan’s contributions to a panel titled “Poetry Break: Poetry in Children’s Books”;
Attending the award-presentation of the Bologna Raggazzi “New Horizons” Award to Chennai-based Tara Publishing, for the hand-made book The Nightlife of Trees, and watching how the book came into being;
Hearing illustrators Robert Ingpen and Paul O. Zelinsky talk about their contributions to the book Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art (the proceeds of which go to the Eric Carl Museum of Picture Book Art.)…

Well, I could just keep going – and I will. And so will Aline: so keep coming back as the full picture unfolds…

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10. Uncle Abdul
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This satirical suicide bomber character from the Seamour Sheep comic strip series will soon be available as a designer vinyl figure, produced by Crazy Label. We hope that the release of the Uncle Abdul figure will help to satirize the act of killing.

The photograph shows the first hand-painted Uncle Abdul toy prototype being greeted by the very rare red-nosed edition of Marty Mole.

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