By: Carter Higgins,
on 9/1/2015
Guess what?
I love many more books than I have blog posts here, so join me over at Instagram for more books, snaps, and snippets.
And! It’s time for another round of Best Books Ever! It’s always an honor to be invited to Matthew Winner’s Let’s Get Busy podcast with Julie Falatko, and this conversation is a fun one.
Meet me back here on Thursday for a slightly scary and slightly silly book, one that will make you rethink the nooks and crannies of your home.
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By: Carter Higgins,
on 10/18/2013
This stained glass window lives in my library. I know. It changes color throughout the day and just makes me so happy. It reminds me that the dreary and dusty bits and cobwebbed corners won’t last forever.
Have you read Aaron Becker’s Journey? After a bunch of us read it together, a kid said, “I think that bird is in our library.”
If you’ve read it, please tell me you just gasped with delight. I did. Got goosebumps even! If you haven’t, let this trailer convince you.
Lately on Design Mom: Silence and The Story of Fish and Snail
Neil Gaiman on libraries and daydreaming.
A look at updated gender roles in Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever. I particulary love that ‘beautiful screaming lady’ changed to ‘cat in danger.’ (Kudos to Burgin at Vintage Kids’ Books My Kid Loves for the find!)
And this. Oh, man. The Re-Sendakify Sendak Project. My heart stopped at the Where the Wild Things Are in the style of Saul Bass, and it was all a bunch of oohs and ahhs from there. So good!
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By: Carter Higgins,
on 9/27/2013
Have you heard of Skillshare? Virtual, project-based learning on a whole slew of subjects. I still have a Digital Illustration course I have yet to finish! Or start, for that matter. And that’s the beauty of Skillshare, that I can smoosh it into my schedule when there’s some free time. (Anyone have some to donate?!)
Illustrator Annie Patterson is teaching a course called Children’s Book Illustration: From Sketch to Final Art, and the image above is the illustration she demonstrates in the course.
If you’re interested, Annie graciously shared a discount code for $10 off the original course price of $25. You can use the code DRAWING, which is available through October 5th.
Have fun!How cool is this tweet:
I shared Sophie and Matthew Olshan’s The Mighty Lalouche over at Design Mom this week. There’s a pop-up version of the Unofficial Sophie Blackall Fan Club over there. And Matthew chimed in, too! My reader heart swoons.
And then I shared this snippet of why I identify with Lalouche:
Here’s where art meets life. Next week (!) I start a new job as a librarian at an elementary school. It’s been a bunch of years since I’ve done that, and I’m thrilled to bits.
In this book, Lalouche loves his simple life as a postman. Leaves for boxing fame and fortune, but (spoiler!) returns to his roots cause he just loved his postman days so, so much.
My story feels similar. I am Lalouche today!
Happy weekend! (I guess I should remove former from that bio up there! PINCH ME.)
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By: Carter Higgins,
on 9/6/2013
A week ago, I scooped up a stack of books at the bookstore. One of those was a replacement for a long gone copy of The Phantom Tollbooth.
Yesterday, I saw this.
Check out the project’s Kickstarter if you’re as smitten as I am. A Norton Juster limerick personalized for you? Swoon.
Speaking of swoon, I mentioned on Facebook that I have taken to calling this illustrator Christian Robin-swoon. His art is breathtaking, and over at Design Mom this week I sang the praises of Harlem’s Little Blackbird.
Happy weekend!
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