I saw this. If I was able to write about films I’d write about it.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATION WE LOVE
Bjork’s ‘The Comet Song’ for the children’s film Moomins and the Comet Chase
Stump the Bookseller
Have you forgotten the title of your favorite children’s book? (via Hoolie_P)
Ronald Searle
via Animalarium
Giant guinea pig- ‘Caplin Rous’, is the most famous capybara in the world- he has a Twitter following of 3,377! Three year old Caplin Rous is as house trained as a dog and even manages to stand on his hind legs for owner Melanie Typaldos in Buda, Texas. Picture: BARCROFT. Telegraph UK
It’s not an illustration, but it should be!
Truc is stranger than fiction - Tomi Ungerer
The Tree House
illustrated by father-daughter team Marije Tolman and Ronald Tolman
via Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Title sequence from Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Olivia…and the Missing Toy by Ian Falconer
More on writer/illustrator Dave McKean here.
Books That Change Kids Worlds
by Susan Orlean
Inspired by an earlier experiment with book recommendations on Twitter, I decided to pose the question online (with the slightly cumbersome hashtag #booksthatchangekidsworlds) and sat back while the answers flooded in. What I have loved about reading through them is not just the great suggestions for my son but the shiver of pleasure I get each time I see a title that meant everything to me when I was a kid but that I haven’t thought about in years. I actually gasped when someone recommended “Hailstones and Halibut Bones,” by Mary O’Neil, a book I wore out twice when I was little but haven’t thought about in decades; I can’t wait to read it to my son, to see if it will change his world the way it changed mine.
Here’s the list as of this afternoon, in roughly the order they came in. Books that got multiple mentions are in bold.
“The Phantom Tollbooth,” by Norton Juster“Matilda,” by Roald Dahl
“The Borrowers,” by Mary Norton
“Charlotte’s Web,” by E. B. White
“The Chronicles of Narnia” series, by C. S. Lewis
“The Golden Compass,” by Philip Pullman
“The Paper Bag Princess,” by Robert Munsch
“Abel’s Island,” by William Steig
“Love that Dog,” by Sharon Creech
“Island of the Blue Dolphins,” by Scott O’Dell
“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” by Judy Blume
“From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,” by E. L. Konigsburg
