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Tag: Jillian Tamaki
Unexpected Jolts of Children’s Literature
It's that time again! Time to investigate those books written for adults that have some kind of direct tie to children's literature. Today, the roster includes worms, socialists, memoirs, and lust.
Review of the Day: my best friend by Julia Fogliano, ill. Jillian Tamaki
Kids will love this book. Yeah, it’s a visual/literary masterpiece of picture book art and writing but that means bupkiss if you hand it to a kid, or read it aloud to a group, and they’re bored to tears. Precisely because Fogliano knows how to talk on a kid’s level, precisely because Tamaki has made her art so visually appealing.
Now let us praise famous jacket artists – 2010
Due to the sheer proliferation of book jackets featuring photographs rather than illustrations, I think the time is right to offer a little ode of praise to our brave illustrators who work so hard to give us great illustrated chapter book covers. In an age when it feels like all the teen covers are dedicated […]
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