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Tag: Stephen Gammell

October 16, 2023 by Betsy Bird

Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Monster Mama by Liz Rosenberg, ill. Stephen Gammell

Today we discuss the man who typified the "controlled Jackson Pollock" look. It's the rare book that was originally intended for Mother's Day and that we're now discussing instead for Halloween.

October 25, 2015 by Betsy Bird

Video Sunday: Spiritual Otters and Evangelical Raccoons

Woot!  I’ve scraped and saved and slavered and after a couple weeks have culled together enough videos to constitute a truly lovely Video Sunday.  And since Halloween is near upon us (a holiday I will, strangely enough, be spending at an outside wedding in Maine) why not begin with the king of frightening children’s literature […]

March 1, 2012 by Betsy Bird

Re-Seussification Project: The Results

It was kind of a kooky idea, I admit it.  I’ve seen plenty of sites where artists will reinterpret someone like Maurice Sendak in their own styles.  What I wanted was something a little different.  I wanted to see what would happen if great children’s book illustrators illustrated one another.  If a Lobel illustrated a […]

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Fusenews: When “going green” is a bad thing

January 5, 2012 by Betsy Bird

The last time I did a Fusenews was more than a week ago.  As such my links all seem a bit out of date.  Ah well.  Let’s have fun with a partially abbreviated Fusenews today then.  However, to begin . . . Sometimes it feels like we always lose some of the best ones at […]

Video Sunday: Beaucoup d’Imagination

January 23, 2011 by Betsy Bird

She’ll have a book contract within a week.  This was undoubtedly the most popular video of the past week, making the rounds amongst folks who (A) like cute French kids (B) like Winnie-the-Pooh and (C) are aware that Pooh books are strikingly lacking in “singes”.  Many thanks to BoingBoing for the link. But really, this […]

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