—Madeleine L’Engle (via excessivebookshelf)
(Source: wordpainting, via scout)
I wrote and illustrated this book, and it’s being published through Candlewick Press. It won’t come out until late September, but it’s up for preorder already. I’m excited about this one, guys.
http://www.amazon.com/I-Want-My-Hat-Back/dp/0763655988/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312999828&sr=8-1
‘Family Portrait’, Ronald Searle
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Ronald Searle: St Trinian’s series: St Trinian’s school for girls.
LADY FILMY FERN or The Voyage of the Window Box (early 1930s/1980)
Illustration by Edward Bawden
(via arthurvankruining and toelle)
The Child. From Edward Gorey’s Fantod Deck, via cavigliascabinet
housingworksbookstore:powells:
Laika, the Portland-based animation studio behind the Coraline movie, made this charming little book trailer for Wildwood, the middle grade fantasy novel coming August 30 by Decemberists front man Colin Meloy and his wife, illustrator Carson Ellis.
Want a signed copy? Preorder one here.
Maurice Sendak, photographed by Annie Leibowitz for Vanity Fair, where he’s interviewed by Dave Eggers.
A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead & Erin Stead
Jonathan And the Big Blue Boat by Philip C. Stead
Interview and sketches at Seven Impossible Things; NYT review
(via mudwerks)
Frederick by Leo Lionni
“It would carry off objects of which it grew fond, and protect them by dropping them into the pond”
From “The Doubtful Guest” by Edward Gorey, via tatteredbanners
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
