Alvin Schwartz’s collection of haunting tales Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is an important gateway drug into the world of the supernatural. And as terrifying as the stories about brides locked forever in an attic trunk truly are, it’s the artwork by Stephen Gammell that kept you up at night.
Are you shitting me? It’s the wicked illustrations that got my 10yr old apathetic ass into reading more books; WTH people?!
Recent outrage in the tumblrverse!
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Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples | Michel Streich
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights | by Michel Streich
This was part of my final for Childrens Book. I was trying out the technique I used here but I don’t thing the imagery lent itself as well to the medium.
Screen print on glassine & watercolor on paper.
i love this. i actually really like the interaction of the imagery and the medium - creates a very interesting tension.
I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More by Karen Beaumont. One of my CTs favorite art books. The kids love it too.
Illustrating is a series of choices. I give voice to my work by choosing ideas, possibilities, and ways of using art (and not my ability to draw, my painting skills, or how good or bad I am at anything). I hope that the way I chose to tell the story of My Abuelita comes out with a voice “as round as dimes and as wild as blossoms blooming” and that even Abuelita would be proud.
Now that My Abuelita is long finished and is already a completed book, what I keep closest to me is that fantastic feeling of being at the studio, setting the puppets in the scenes. No matter how tired I was or how many times we reset the puppets (which often moved or fell, crashing the whole scene), it always made me squirm with pure delight to have Abuelita, her grandchild, and Frida the cat bring to life a scene I had only imagined. How I had dreamed of this perfect moment, ever since I was a child playing with my dolls.
"— Yuyi Morales on creating the illustrations for the book My Abuelita, written by Tony Johnston. (via realkidsgoodbooks)
(via Picture Books About Elephants - By Bruce Handy - NYTimes.com)
Mmmm! I love this illustration (From Pomelo begins to Grow, illus. Benjamin Chaud.) Good review, too.
David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” as a children’s book, via io9.
TEARS. SO MANY TEARS. The entire PDF is here.
(via Children’s book illustration | Flickr - Photo Sharing!)
Stay safe, east coasters!
MAY
Inspired by the famous Czech writer and poet Karel Hynek Mácha and his poem ‘May’. I created an illustrated alphabet, in which every character illustrates words which appear in the poem. Afterwards, I cut the alphabet to pieces and rearranged them into new characters, which now represent the concrete stories.
(via fuckyeahbookarts)
(via Chicken Nugget Lemon Tooty)
A blog created and maintained by an artist dad with some awesome, creative kids. A joy to look through.
The month of August marks 5 years of sharing the Z-Kids’ art on Chicken Nugget Lemon Tooty! I estimate there are over 650 pictures here by now. I love watching the kids’ work grow and change over the years — the creativity never ceases to amaze me. (Source)
V.F. Portrait: Maurice Sendak by Dave Eggers
On his latest book, Bumble-Ardy: “This is obviously the work of a man who has dementia,” Sendak says. “But I’m very happy with it.”
(via hannahlmr)
(via Inspirations for Children’s Books in Saudi Arabia: Part 2, Misho and His Laughter)
Students in my children’s literature course in Saudi Arabia work in small groups to write and illustrate their own picture books, some of which are now being published for broader distribution in my country. Each week, the processes of one group are highlighted in this blog along with children’s books from the Arabic world that they found useful in their writing process.
I love this lil’ guy! So adorable.
toward the scholarly study of children's literature and culture.
