The Garmann Sequel
The Excelsior File reviews Garmann's Street, the further adventures of the wild and wacky kid from Garmann's Summer.
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Author Gail Gauthier's Reflections On Children's Books, Writing, And The Kidlit World
The Excelsior File reviews Garmann's Street, the further adventures of the wild and wacky kid from Garmann's Summer.
Labels: Picture books
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Labels: Picture books, plots, Reader response
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Vermont artist Stephen Huneck, who was also the author and illustrator of a number of children's books, has died. We have seen his work at a number of Vermont galleries over the last few years and were sorry to hear of his passing.
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The Defiant Ones, a New Yorker article by Daniel Zalewski, left me rigid with fear that I won't be able to figure out the behavioral lessons that picture books are evidently supposed to teach. Perhaps I should just avoid them for a while and look for lighter reading.
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Here in central Connecticut we had a nice, floppy snow today--our second snow this week. So I thought it was neat to learn this afternoon that a launch event for Tyrannoclaus--a Christmas book about dinosaurs--will be held November 8 from 1 to 4 pm at Connecticut's own Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill. If it's already snowing here in mid-October, might we expect a bit on the ground at Dino State Park by November 8th?
Labels: author appearances, Picture books
I can sympathize with author Daniel B. Smith, in his article The Very Grouchy Daddy in Slate. Eric Carle's books don't have a lot of "narrative creativity." They weren't read a lot at Chez Gauthier, because the mom here needed more story. We went to things like Curious George just as fast as we could.
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I met Nancy Poydar back in March. She has a new book out called Fish School. It's a picture book for ages 4 through 8.
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Yesterday was the first Tuesday in over a month when I didn't have family duties. Since in the preceding forty-eight hours I'd decided to get started on three new projects, while continuing with two I was already working on, I was most excited about having a few extra hours for work. So what did I do? I locked myself out of my house. After depositing some perishable groceries with a family member twenty minutes away, I hunkered down at the library for an hour, hoping I could do something there.
Labels: Picture books, Reader response
Booklights, a new children's book blog at PBS Parents, opens with lots of discussion of picture books.
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A commentor on yesterday's post noted that you don't see a lot of black and white picture books even though black and white is good for you. While checking to see if yesterday's book Cat and Fish by Curtis and Grant had received much Internet buzz when it was published in '05, I found a pixie stix post on "books that do awesome things with black and white illustration." Included is the sequel to Cat and Fish, Cat and Fish Go To See.
Labels: Picture books, reading blogs
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Last week the subject of small presses was covered at the kidlitosphere listserv. And what do you know? Yesterday while I was at a NESCBWI Salon, I heard about two small presses that were new to me.
Labels: literary events, Picture books
We at Chez Gauthier are into Rail Trails because we don't bike up no hills. (Though, personally, I don't believe the perfectly flat railroad bed has yet been created. There is always an incline.) In case any of you with little ones are also rail trail fans, take a look at Rail Trail Alphabet Adventures!
Labels: Picture books
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For a number of years, we had flocks of turkeys on our street. In fact, our local turkeys made it into A Girl, a Boy, and Three Robbers. Though I no longer live in a hunting culture as I did when I was growing up in Vermont, the turkey population has plummeted to the point that this year we've only been seeing one down at the other end of the street.
Labels: Picture books
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I think Slate does wonderful slide shows. They are a marvelous innovation, a great use of technology. IMHO.
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I can take dinosaurs or leave them, myself. What I really like reading about are the dinosaur hunters of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Labels: nonfiction, Picture books, Reader response
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It's a Picture Book, a Novel, a Movie in Book Form... is another one of those how-they-done-it articles that I like so much. This one is about Brian Selznick and Hugo Cabret.
Labels: Book awards, Picture books
Labels: Picture books
Labels: Picture books
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Labels: Cinderella stories, Picture books