“Some people came more often, like the goatherd who was jeered and laughed at by the village children. He came by very often. Just like the shell girl who stopped talking one day. And the old l...
A week ago today at Kirkus, I conducted a short Q & A with Jennifer Dasal, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art, about their current exhibit of Ashley Bryan&...
Pictured left to right:Dan Yaccarino, Yours Truly, David Ezra Stein,Dianne de Las Casas, and Alyssa Capucilli;Knoxville, Tennessee; May 19, 2012 I have a presence over in the hypo-hyper world of Face...
(Click to enlarge and see entire spread from which this comes) I may have said only about 7,000 times in 2011 that one of my favorite picture books of that year was Eileen and Marc Rosenthal’s ...
“‘What a fine hat,’ said Octopus. ‘This must be my lucky day.’” I’ve been a busy bee. This week at Kirkus, I’ll have two columns over at their Book Blo...
I’m sitting down at the breakfast table this morning with author/illustrator Jill McElmurry. Rather, I’m handing the 7-Imp mic over to her. And I’m happy to be doing so; I’ve ...
Work-in-progress illustration from Gianna Marino’s Meet Me at the Moon(Click to enlarge) It’s Mother’s Day, the day we celebrate all the mamas and mama-like people in our lives. I t...
“Just then Kakatua, the scarlet macaw flew down onto a nearby branch. ‘Kakatua, will you please let the whole jungle know that I challenge any animals to a race? We will see who is the fa...
(Click to enlarge) I was hoping to wake up this morning and find that yesterday’s news about Sendak’s passing was only a dream. Not surprisingly, some wonderful tributes have been written...
“[O]ne of Sendak’s most lovingly rendered pages, one of his most graphically succinct and nonetheless articulate expressions of deep meaning.”– From Gregory Maguire’s &#...
Anyone else seen Frank W. Dormer’s newest picture book, The Obstinate Pen (Henry Holt, April 2010)? It’s funny stuff, and I’ve been meaning to post about it for a while now. Fortuna...
(Click to enlarge) It’s the first Sunday of the month, which means the 7-Imp spotlight gets turned on a student or debut illustrator, and today I’ve got the latter. Jane Porter is a UK-ba...
“One evening after dinner, Randall McCoy stood up on his chair and announced as loud as he could: ‘I AM A BIG BOY NOW!’ This was news to his mother and father.” This morning a...
You all know I’m a ginormous picture book addict, and I tell you what: Author/illustrator Philip C. Stead knows how to send just the right content to make this blogger happy. I’ve been tr...
I’m afraid that, if I try to count the number of picture book creators who have visited this site in the past six years, I’ll be here all day. I’ve done quite a few Q&As, to sa...
(Click to enlarge) In the Summer of 2011, I wrote at Kirkus about TOON Books. Today’s post is about a new TOON title, R. Kikuo Johnson’s The Shark King, so if you’re thinking, TOON ...
From I. C. Springman’s More(Houghton Mifflin, March 2012), illustrated by Brian Lies This morning at Kirkus, I take a look at two picture book protagonists who make me laugh in Adam J. B. Lane&...
From Amy Schwartz’s Lucy Can’t Sleep(Neal Porter/Roaring Brook, August 2012)(More images below) Author/illustrator Amy Schwartz visited 7-Imp for a breakfast chat in June 2010. It was the...
How do you like my new friend here? That was created by author/illustrator Aaron Zenz, and he appears in this post Aaron wrote on Monday about some of his favorite blogs. I can’t possibly thank...
I’ve written about author/illustrator John Hendrix previously at 7-Imp. Today, though, he’s joining me at the breakfast table, his breakfast-of-choice being only “about five gallons...
I always look forward to new picture books from Polly Dunbar (who visited 7-Imp back in ‘08). Kirkus calls her newest, Arthur’s Dream Boat, released by Candlewick in February, a “re...
“This is the sun that kisses the clouds / that cried the rain that soaked the seeds /that slept in the soil, all dark and deep, / in Isabella’s garden. /These are the shoots that seek the...
This morning over at Kirkus, I’ve got a short Q & A up with author, historian, and critic Leonard S. Marcus. We’re discussing his (wonderful) new Candlewick title, Show Me a Story! W...
A Highlights Foundation writing session(including an Eric Rohmann sighting — he’s also seated with Suzanne Bloom, Lindsay Barrett George, Melanie Hall, and Floyd Cooper) I’m doing s...
(Click to enlarge) Sheer and utter laziness is what I bring you today, dear Imps. Well, laziness of a sort. I have some illustrations to showcase today, but as for my thoughts on the book, I’m ...
Author/illustrator Laura Vaccaro Seeger has been called the “the Queen of the Concept Book” (the Horn Book), a title she’s earned with a slew of unique and exceedingly clever pictur...
So, as a follow-up to yesterday’s post, this may or may not be what happens when dragons and jalapeño peppers mix: Best spread in the book. Click to embiggen it and see it in detail. Until tomo...
“Just remember: Dragons hate spicy salsa.Before you host your taco party with dragons, get rid of all the spicy salsa.In fact, bury the spicy salsa in the backyard so the dragons can’t fi...
Tomorrow over at Kirkus, I’ll have some thoughts on A Hen for Izzy Pippik, written by Aubrey Davis and illustrated by Marie Lafrance. That link will be here in the morning. * * * Last Friday, I...
“I was a typist, nothing more. / I loved my life, I hated war. /But it was war that stole from me / my job, my life, serenity…”– From “The Captive,” Pat’s po...
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