CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATION WE LOVE
kidlitstorytime: A Drop of Blood by Paul Showers, illustrated by Don Madden c.1967

kidlitstorytime:

A Drop of Blood by Paul Showers, illustrated by Don Madden c.1967

letmypeopleshow: The Envelope Please:  Edward Gorey, master of the mischievously macabre, shared a decades-long friendship and correspondence with Peter Neumeyer, a writer and professor whose childrens’ books he illustrated. Luckily for us they communicated via snail mail. Gorey’s fantastical envelopes, along with sketches, illustrations, and manuscripts, are reproduced in Floating Worlds, via Pomegranate Books.   ©The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust, courtesy Pomegranate (pomegranate.com)

letmypeopleshow:

The Envelope Please: 

Edward Gorey, master of the mischievously macabre, shared a decades-long friendship and correspondence with Peter Neumeyer, a writer and professor whose childrens’ books he illustrated. Luckily for us they communicated via snail mail. Gorey’s fantastical envelopes, along with sketches, illustrations, and manuscripts, are reproduced in Floating Worlds, via Pomegranate Books. 

 ©The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust, courtesy Pomegranate (pomegranate.com)

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onemoretimewithfeeling: whatthehale: The Giving Tree  We discovered at TEK’s shower last weekend that while the book The Giving Tree is a super awesome book & gift … the back cover, aka Mr. Silverstein’s crazy mug, is a little traumatizing.  Upon further research, apparently there is a line in The Diary of a Wimpy Kid where the dad keeps his son from getting out of bed at night by threatening him with the back of The Giving Tree, telling him Shel Silverstein would get him if he left his room. I die.  That is hilarious, and sounds like something my father would do.

onemoretimewithfeeling:

whatthehale:

The Giving Tree 

We discovered at TEK’s shower last weekend that while the book The Giving Tree is a super awesome book & gift … the back cover, aka Mr. Silverstein’s crazy mug, is a little traumatizing. 

Upon further research, apparently there is a line in The Diary of a Wimpy Kid where the dad keeps his son from getting out of bed at night by threatening him with the back of The Giving Tree, telling him Shel Silverstein would get him if he left his room.

I die. 

That is hilarious, and sounds like something my father would do.

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gatsbylives:

One of my very favorite illustrators, Quentin Blake, on the emotion of color.

It looks like Mr. Jon Klassen has done it again. This time with the help of Mac Barnett.  Go here to see more fantastic shots of the upcoming book.

It looks like Mr. Jon Klassen has done it again. This time with the help of Mac Barnett. 

Go here to see more fantastic shots of the upcoming book.

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”

—Maurice Sendak  (via nedhepburn)

(Source: jamesnord, via nedhepburn)

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