School Library Journal» Vladimir Radunsky http://www.slj.com The world's largest reviewer of books, multimedia, and technology for children and teens Wed, 18 Sep 2013 18:01:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Pictures of the Week: Chronicle Books Celebrates 25 Years in Children’s Publishing | ALA 2013 http://www.slj.com/2013/07/events/ala-conferences/pictures-of-the-week-chronicle-books-celebrates-25-years-in-childrens-publishing-ala-2013/ http://www.slj.com/2013/07/events/ala-conferences/pictures-of-the-week-chronicle-books-celebrates-25-years-in-childrens-publishing-ala-2013/#comments Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:53:28 +0000 SLJ http://www.slj.com/?p=52011  

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In celebration of its 25th Anniversary of children’s publishing, Chronicle Books hosted a cocktail reception at the American Library Association Annual conference that included a raffle of original artwork inspired by the company’s spectacles logo. The pieces were created by many award-winning and bestselling illustrators, including Tom Lichtenheld, Sophie Blackall, Taro Gomi, and more. The artists presented the prizes to the raffle winners.

ALA Annual 2013 Tom Lichtenheld and Susannah Richards Pictures of the Week: Chronicle Books Celebrates 25 Years in Childrens Publishing | ALA 2013

Illustrator Tom Lichtenheld and children’s literature professor Susannah Richards. Photos courtesy of Chronicle Books.

ALA Annual 2013 Vladimir Radunsky and Susan Faust Pictures of the Week: Chronicle Books Celebrates 25 Years in Childrens Publishing | ALA 2013

Illustrator Vladimir Radunsky presented original art  to Susan Faust, librarian at San Francisco’s Katherine Delmar Burke School.

 

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Gr 2-6–The name Einstein is synonymous with genius, but what does that mean to a child? Einstein himself would only admit to being “very, very curious.” Berne’s picture book offers readers few biographical details, focusing instead on the physicist’s intellect through the concepts that puzzled and excited him. He was late to start speaking and not particularly verbal–until he received a compass. As the author explains, “Suddenly he knew there were mysteries in the world–hidden and silent, unknown and unseen.” And suddenly, too, he was bursting with questions–questions about magnetism, light, sound, gravity, and later, atoms, motion, and time. This was a person who spent his life “imagining, wondering, figuring and thinking.” Radunsky’s delightful pen-and-ink illustrations on cornmeal-yellow pages flecked with fibers and earth-tone highlights depict events from the man’s life, his thoughts, and a few of his quirks. Einstein’s old-world European childhood is reflected in the formal dress of the adults that loom over him. In an image that expresses his love of numbers, computations swirl around him. Selected lines in a large, red font add emphasis, and comments in the few dialogue bubbles are handwritten in a scratchy, black line. An endnote adds information on the physicist’s thought experiments, his sense of humor, E=mc², and the atomic bomb. When considering an author’s approach, Lynne Barasch’s picture book Ask Albert Einstein (Farrar, 2005) and Mareé Ferguson Delano’s photobiography, Genius (National Geographic, 2005) are noteworthy comparisons to this richly imagined, beautifully designed, impressionistic biography.–Daryl Grabarek, School Library Journal

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