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Why do some celebrity picture books fail to credit their illustrators? Heck, even Madonna made room for her artists. I consider a trend that makes some celebrity picture books even more despicable than usual.
Today we offer the antithesis to that old "Surprise! It's Racist!" post I created in 2014. What are the forms of children's entertainment that surprise you with their activism? I consider some old standbys and new concepts.
There have been Black picture book biographies coming out for years and years and years. Often their publishers either wouldn't or couldn't put the marketing dollars behind them that they so clearly deserved, and so these books would sink from view and be forgotten. Today, I want to revisit some of these books, just in case someone had a hankering to rediscover them.
Today we are pleased as punch to announce that we are adding two additional women to our Niblings group. Meet them for yourselves!
Today I offer a brief glimpse of the latest book by 1969 Caldecott Award winner Uri Shulevitz.
What if he asked people to rank not their top ten picture books of all time, but their ten favorite picture books of the last decade? That's right. Just the books published between the years of 2010-19. The results have been tabulated and now they are in.
As of yesterday, The Eric Carle Museum is presenting its first virtual exhibit. Called ART in PLACE: Social Distancing in the Studio, the show consists of 21 picture-book artists, isolating in their studios, working in the midst of a pandemic. Or, as Executive Director Alexandra Kennedy puts it, "We may all be in isolation—but these artists are helping to make sure we don’t feel isolated."
From an economic standpoint, it would make a lot of sense for publishers to look at the current shift from physical to electronic galleys and say, "Okay. This is how we're doing it from now on." But is that for the best?
From sourdough starters to fairytales, bats, and migrants, here's a round-up of a slew of small publishers and what they have coming out in the summer and fall.
Distance learning takes a turn for the strange when I get to be in charge.