Ruh-roh. I’ve been having too much fun earning a living to leave enough time for blogging. Time yet again for a super quickie point-by-point-without-the-details Fusenews! Hold onto your hats . . .
Who are the artists overlooked by the Caldecott? Elizabeth Bluemle has the scoop.
An East Harlem bookstore needs your help! Thanks to Heather Scott for the link.
- Can celebrities write good books for kids? One person points out that maybe they aid in giving illustrators a leg up.
- Everything in this Horn Book article Board-book-a-palooza by Cynthia K. Ritter I agree with. Everything.
- Speaking of HB, Roger’s blog has a new format. Love that bow-tied avatar of his. Who drew it, I wonder?
- Don Tate has a fun piece about his time at the Highlights first illustrators intensive Founders workshop. He happened to stay in the same cabin that I did when I visited last summer. I had no idea I’d stayed where Floyd Cooper had. Fabulous!
- Don’t get me wrong. I love Where’s Waldo but how dedicated am I? Not this dedicated. Yeesh! Thanks to Molly O’Neill for the link.
- Dunno. If I were to find a title for this story of the 1500 pound Mo Willems sculpture of a pachyderm I think I would have gone with “Elephant and Piggie Iron”. But that’s me.
- Who knew that random stills of that old Spider-Man cartoon could be this fun? Particularly when they involve librarians.
Kseniya Yarosh, I tip my hat to thee.
- Beautiful vintage dust jackets from classic novels. That Catcher in the Rye is particularly shocking to me. Thanks to Mike Lewis for the link!
- That’s it. I’m making my own Funny Book prize. This time for American books. Because, quite frankly, they’re hard to write and I’m jealous of the Brits for getting to have their Roald Dahl Funny Prize.<
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I see in your Gatekeeper’s post you mention Jon Klassen’s book… he’s on my blog today talking about his bookish inspiration. I was quite surprised by his choices, I wonder what you’ll make of them. I love these round ups – like a magpie’s nest full of lovely sparkly bits I want to pick up and have a look at.
Thank for posting the Lord of the Flies link- I sent it on to my neighbor’s son (who is quite a talented young artist).
Doesn’t the Sid Fleischman humor award count?
It does but I like the shortlist aspect. The Fleischman Award only goes to one book a year, yes?
Did you see that Emma Thompson is writing a new Peter Rabbit story?
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/48708-new-peter-rabbit-tale-to-be-written-by-emma-thompson.html
Oh yes. Hard not to be torn on that one. On the one hand, we all like Emma Thompson. On the other hand, is this the first time where a public domain children’s literary character had their story appropriated by a celebrity author?
I wish she would write her own story. She’s a talented and witty writer (the screenplay for Sense and Sensibility is a treat to read); it’s not like she just decided to start writing out of the blue.
Actually she did write a Nanny McPhee sequel. But again that was taking an existing character and expanding on it rather than thinking up her own work. She could potentially be the next Julie Andrews Edwards of children’s literature if she let herself.