“Hot Dogging”
Well the only thing about Boswell that’s hot dogging is his tubular physique. He’s much more familiar with the snow plow than any sort of shredding.
Why not schuss on over here to check out my fellow SkADaMoers at work.
“Hot Dogging”
Well the only thing about Boswell that’s hot dogging is his tubular physique. He’s much more familiar with the snow plow than any sort of shredding.
Why not schuss on over here to check out my fellow SkADaMoers at work.
Some small paintings I created for a Memory-style card game that appeared in this past January's issue of Spider magazine. Each one is available for purchase in my Etsy shop:
Mx showed this to me last night and I knew I had to see this documentary. So, I wanted to share it with you. Have a great weekend!
I've been on a bit of a book binge lately (alliteration!), sitting on the floor and tearing through all of my bottom shelfers, the big clunkers picked up at library book sales. A lot of these revolve around my favorite outdoor activity, skiing. (By the way, I'll have to do a post on my old ski collection at some point, although half of it is in a shed back east right now. Lots of 200+cm boards. Very nice.) Anyway, I'm always on the look out for some good ski books, especially anything illustrated.
Skiing was really picking up steam in the 1940s and 1950s with ski areas popping up anywhere anyone had a chain saw for clearing trails and an old diesel engine to power a rope tow. So you start to see a lot of fiction popping up at this time that centers around the sport. Especially children's novels. Here are a couple of great examples. The first one, The Ski Patrol, by Roy J. Snell was published in 1940 by Goldsmith Publishing and is about a bunch of American kids on a ski trip in Finland where they end up hunting bears and Nazis. "Gee-wiz, what did we get ourselves into?" Here's the cover.
Another good one from a decade later is Avalanche Patrol, written by Montgomery M. Atwater and published by The Junior Literary Guild and Random House. The opening page says it all:
"Well, hotshot, how does this sound to you? A paid ski vacation at Snowhole?"
The question fired at Brad Davis casually and without warning made the young forester blink. He had been yanked out of his class, whisked from college to Forest Service headquarters, and now this from his uncle.
"Ski vacation... Snowhole."
The name of the area doesn't inspire a lot of confidence, but the title page is classic.
Another great one sitting on my shelf is a little coffee table book, Learn to Ski, illustrated by R. Osborn in 1942. Couldn't find the publisher. It's mostly sketches of life in the lodge and on the train into the mountains. There's also a nice series of a skier praying and then wiping out. Good stuff.
And more bios!
Writing biographies for children has to be difficult. You need to faithfully tell of someone's life, while still being mindful of possible content issues. Then, there are the issues of writing nonfiction for children in general-- being mindful of your audience without talking down to them. The standard bearer for children's biographies is the wonderful Newbery winner, Lincoln by Russell Freedman.
Some of these books hit the mark, and some don't-- all the subjects are people I hadn't previously read a biography of.
Love the shape of his snout. Working on another dog myself – ain’t easy!
just LOVE your animals
This guy looks pretty happy!
you’re drawings always make me smile
Go doggie go!Love it:)
The posture and expression are great.