I have been completely delinquent about posting - ugh. And I still haven't posted about my trip to BEA! Planning my summer reading program combined with changing over to a new catalog and circulation system = zero extra time. However - I did have an amazing day at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book … Continue reading Eric Carle Signing & Meeting Oliver Jeffers!
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Picturebook Friday
Where's Walrus? by Stephen Savage My rating: 5 of 5 stars Really fun book! Stephen Savage uses bright, bold colors that really pop and simple lines to create some incredible illustrations for this wordless picture book. His use of negative white space and perspective gives the pictures depth without shading. It has a real retro … Continue reading Picturebook Friday
Picturebook Friday
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen Possibly, one of the best picturebooks I have seen in years. Truly. I was lucky enough to get an autographed copy of this book at BEA last year. And not an ARC. An Honest-to-Goodness hardcover copy - with an autograph!! Totally psyched. Still am, apparently. I … Continue reading Picturebook Friday
Picturebook Friday
So I grabbed this book off my shelf in my office this morning to do this week's Picturebook Friday post. And then I remembered that I had actually written a paper on this book in my History of Publishing class in grad school. Lo and behold....I still have it! Well, it wasn't really that long … Continue reading Picturebook Friday
Picturebook Friday
Where the Wild Things Are.... One of my all time favorites, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak has made it to the big time....that is, if you consider The Colbert Report to be the big time. Which I do. I'm not going to write my analysis or review of it. Many, many experts … Continue reading Picturebook Friday
Picturebook Friday ~ Me…Jane
Little Brown ~ 2011 This picturebook is so lovely, from it's photo album-like jacket design, to its 19th & early 20th century engravings, and all of the wonderful illustrations by Patrick McDonnell in between. I have been hoarding this book in a pile to review for awhile, and I was so happy to see it … Continue reading Picturebook Friday ~ Me…Jane
January Story Times
Week 1 ~ Elephants I centered this story time around Elmer by David McKee. A sweet story about a patchwork elephant who thinks that it would be better to look like all of the other elephants, so he covers himself in grey mud. When he gets back to his herd, he realizes that without him, … Continue reading January Story Times