Seeking children's books of old from library/yard sales, used book stores, ebay, etc.
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Two of my favorite children's book authors have started a Substack called, aptly enough, Looking at Picture Books . Jon Klassen and Mac Barnett will be exploring how picture books work. This is a total dream collab for anyone interested in kids books. Fangirling hard on this one. Their first study is on Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are . Subscribe and do not miss! (You can follow me over there ,…
New York Review Books does it again. One of my all time favorite vintage children's books will be back in print next month. The Man Who Lost His Head by Claire Huchet Bishop and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. Bless this publishing house. Seriously. And check out my original post from way back in 2008.
Coming back from the dead to let you all know that this book is being reprinted in the spring from NYR Children's Collection. Need a House? Call Ms. Mouse! by George Mendoza, illustrated by Doris Susan Smith, was originally published in 1981 by Penguin and is one I have periodically looked out for, ever since reading about it in ye olden blog times here and a few years later it started popping up…
Thought it was time for an update seeing as we are in the midst of a civil rights revolution and a definite shift in thinking. The short of it is that — surprise — I am white. I grew up in a very progressive house in the south in the 1970s, with a mother born in the 1940s who was a civil rights activist from very early on. I grew up in South Carolina, and I don’t think I need to tell anyone what…
Still mourning the loss of Tomi Ungerer. If you haven't checked it out, read my interview with Tomi from a few years back. :( And the fabulous New York Times obit. Great, great talent. Wonderful life.
The Land Where the Ice Cream Grows told by Anthony Burgess ; illustrations and story by Fulvio Testa Doubleday, 1979 Anthony Burgess is most famous for having written the novel A Clockwork Orange (that was then perhaps even more famously turned into a movie by Stanley Kubrick ) . However, it seems that twice he delved into the world of children's books, both to delightful effect. The first, A Long…
Over the next few days I am going to be culling the herd to make way for new Christmas books, so I am reviving my Etsy shop for a small window of time. Available hits include these and more... The Story of Zachary Zween by Mabel Watts and Marylin Hafner; for sale here ; reviewed here . Mother Mother I Feel Sick Send For The Doctor Quick Quick Quick by Remy Charlip and Burton Supree; for sale here…
Happy Halloween all! Just poking my head in to say Jim Flora's Grandpa's Ghost Stories is back in print from Feral House Press . Happy happy day! Still THE spookiest of all the children's books ANYWHERE! You're welcome. Original post here .
Rising from the grave here because I am just past spring break and shelves were cleaned off, and I was reminded of just how many books there are still to share. Every time I turn around, a beloved author is passing away; their books like tiny secrets lost in time. There will be great authors who will live forever like Seuss or Margaret Wise Brown, but for every one of those there are a thousand…
Rising from the dead here to post this little tidbit from Tomi Ungerer's social media feed. Phaidon is releasing a single slipcased volume of eight of Tomi's newish and classic books, The Three Robbers , Moon Man , Otto , Fog Island , Zeralda's Ogre , Flix , The Hat , and Emile . P syched! And in case you missed it a million years years ago, travel back in time to my interview with Tomi himself! I…
