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Cult Picture Book Favorites
Not to be confused with picture books about cults. *shudder* There’s a genre we needn’t plumb. No, today I’m talking about those picture books that are released, do moderately well, or maybe not well at all, fall out-of-print, and then long after their demise accrue a kind of cult following. The fans swell, demand that […]
Who Was Beatrix Potter? by Ellen Handler Spitz
Today I am pleased to introduce to you Ms. Ellen Handler Spitz. Author of Inside Picture Books (Yale University Press, 1999), Ms. Spitz currently holds the Honors College Professorship of Visual Arts at University of Maryland. She is, as you can see, a smart cookie. She is also a Beatrix Potter fan. Indeed, amongst her […]
Fusenews: Saving the Second Penny
The problem with this Fusenews feature is that if I don’t do them regularly then the news out there builds up, builds up, builds up, until there’s so much of it out there that I’m almost embarrassed to do anything with it. Such is the case today! And, as per usual, I’ll say that I’m […]
Video Sunday: Hits ’em With His Head Edition
So, fun fact. I read a serious 2017 Newbery contender a couple months ago and it looks like they may release it in the nearish future (February 2nd). I’m calling 2016 as The Year of the Fox, by the way, since both Sara Pennypacker and Kathi Appelt have fox related middle grades on the horizon. […]
Review of the Day: Robo-Sauce by Adam Rubin
Robo-Sauce By Adam Rubin Illustrated by Daniel Salmieri Dial (an imprint of Penguin Books) $18.99 ISBN: 978-0525428879 Ages 4-6 On shelves October 20th. When I whip out the old we’re-living-in-a-golden-age-of-picture-book-creation argument with colleagues and friends, they humor what I’m sure they consider to be my hyperbole. Suuuuuure we are, Betsy. Not prone to exaggeration or […]
Picture Book Pairings I’d Like to See
The greatest advantage to being a children’s book editor, as I see it, is the power to occasionally pair your favorite authors with your favorite illustrators on a picture project near and dear to your heart. We know on a logical level that it is rare when an editor manages to attain the precise perfect […]
Newbery / Caldecott 2016: Fall Prediction Edition
Around this time of year people start discussing what kind of a publishing year it has become. Is this a strong year for picture books? A weak year for nonfiction? An unusually peculiar year for fiction? It’s all based on personal assessments, containing little to no empirical evidence one way or another, culminating, in the […]
Fuse 8 TV: Rita Williams-Garcia
“Who can turn the stove on with her smile? / Who can take a bubble bath and suddenly fill it with crocodiles?”* If you answered: Rita Williams-Garcia then you are more than correct! The illustrious, charming, all around nice woman stopped by the Harper Collins offices to do a little talky talk with me the […]
Maris Wicks Cover Reveal: Coral Reefs
The other day I wrote the following on Facebook about my four-year-old: “We’re reading my daughter a graphic novel for 9-12 year olds every night (her insistence) called Human Body Theater by Maris Wicks. Basically it goes through all the different parts and functions of the body. Well, tonight she was once again swallowing her […]
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