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Klaus Flugge Longlist Announced

February 12, 2019 By achuka Leave a Comment

 

The 2018 Klaus Flugge Prize longlist in full:

  • The Long Island, Drew Beckmeyer, editor Taylor Norman, designer Kristine Brogno (Chronicle Books)
  • Mini Rabbit Not Lost, John Bond, editor Alice Blacker, designer Goldy Broad (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
  • The Extraordinary Gardner, Sam Boughton, edited by Holly Tonks, designer Ness Wood (Tate)
  • Looking After William, Eve Coy, editor Libby Hamilton, designer Rebecca Garrill (Andersen Press)
  • The Ink House, Rory Dobner, editor Jo Lightfoot and Katherine Pitt, designer Mariana Sameiro, (Laurence King)
  • Cycle City, Alison Farrell, editor Taylor Norman, designer Ryan Hayes (Chronicle Books)
  • Erik the Lone Wolf, Sarah Finan, editor Jenny Broom, designer Zoë Tucker (Lincoln Children’s Books)
  • The King Who Banned the Dark, Emily Haworth-Booth, editor Neil Dunnicliffe, designer Lee-May Lim (Pavilion Children’s Books)
  • Maybe the Moon, Frances Ives, editor Jocelyn Norbury, designer Jack Clucas (LOM Art)
  • I Can Fly, Fifi Kuo, editor Leilani Sparrow, designer David Bennett (Boxer Books)
  • Julian is a Mermaid, Jessica Love, editor Tanya Rosie, art director Deirdre McDermott (Walker Books)
  • Say Hi to Hedgehogs, Jane McGuiness, editor Becky Watson, designer Beth Aves (Walker Books)
  • You’re Safe with Me, Poonam Mistry, written by Chitra Soundar, editor Alice Curry (Lantana Publishing)
  • The Red Dread, Tom Morgan-Jones, editor Emma Hargarve, designer Julie-Ann Murray (Barrington Stoke)
  • The Story of Tantrum O’Furrily, Mark Nicholas, written by Cressida Cowell, editor Anne McNeil (Hodder Children’s Books)
  • The Buildings that Made London, Josie Shenoy, editor Saskia Gwinn, designer Sophie Gordon (Bloomsbury)
  • I Love You Bunny, Alina Surnaite, editor Katie Cotto, designer Mike Jolley and Karissa Santos (Lincoln Children’s Books)
  • The Wardrobe Monster, Bryony Thomson, editor Ruth Huddleston, designer Mike Jolley (Old Barn Books)
  • Red and the City, Marie Voigt, editor Peter Marley, designer Kate Adams (Oxford)
  • The Best Sound in the World, Cindy Wume, editor Katie Cotton, designer Zoë Tucker (Lincoln Children’s Books)

Established in 2016, the Klaus Flugge Prize is awarded to the most promising and exciting newcomer to children’s book picture book illustration. It honours publisher Klaus Flugge, founder of publisher Andersen Press and a supremely influential figure in picture books.

For the second year running more than fifty books were submitted and twenty have made the longlist. 

The judges for the 2019 prize are:

  • Anthony Browne, award-winning illustrator and former Waterstones Children’s Laureate
  • Derek Brazell, of the Association of Illustrators
  • Billiejo Carlisle Seven Stories bookseller
  • Farrah Serroukh, Learning Programme Leader at CLPE (Centre for Literary in Primary Education)
  • Kate Milner last year’s winner

The panel will be chaired by Julia Eccleshare, director of the children’s programme of the Hay Festival.

The shortlist will be announced on 15 May 2019 by Anthony Browne at a special evening event at Foyles Charing Cross Road and the winner will be revealed on 11 September 2019.

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Picture Book Reviews – New York Times

November 10, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

Five new humorous children’s books offer young readers a plethora of pleasure, plus pants for potatoes. Though very different from one another, four of the five feature classic children’s book imagery in one form or another. The fifth features, as I said, potato pants….

Books reviewed:

KING ALICE (Feiwel and Friends, 32 pp., $17.99; ages 4 to 8), Matthew Cordell

INTERRUPTING CHICKEN AND THE ELEPHANT OF SURPRISE (Candlewick, 48 pp., $16.99; ages 4 to 8), David Ezra Stein

JUST ADD GLITTER (Beach Lane, 32 pp., $17.99; ages 4 to 8),  Angela DiTerlizzi and the illustrator Samantha Cotterill

THE WALL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BOOK (Dial, 40 pp., $17.99; ages 4 to 8), Jon Agee

POTATO PANTS! (Holt/Christy Ottaviano, 32 pp., $16.99; ages 4 to 8), Laurie Keller

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/books/review/matthew-cordell-king-alice.html

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Picture Books About Dreams and Dreamers – The New York Times

September 19, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

Paul O. Zelinsky reviews four dream-themed books for the New York Times:

With each new season of children’s books, subjects seem to cluster. Not long ago, a slew of sloth books appeared. Then two blobfish books, in the same month. This year it’s picture books that wear their hearts on their sleeves, displaying value statements, as titles, on their jackets. Recently, “Be Kind” and “All Are Welcome” have shared space on a Times best-seller list topped by the similarly didactic but less utopian “We Don’t Eat Our Classmates!”Now four new picture books, whose illustrators are among America’s best, arrive with almost matching titles: “The Dreamer,” “Dreamers,” “Imagine!” and “Imagine.” Until recently, people who imagined were dreamers, more or less; now “dreamer” has taken on an additional, weighty meaning. Two of these four books contend with the dreams that immigrants harbor, while two just celebrate the liberating imagination that informs both art and science. You might guess which are which, and you’d be wrong.

The 4 books reviewed are:
The Dreamer by Sung Na
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
Imagine by Raúl Colón
Imagine by Juan Felipe Herrera and Lauren Castillo

via Picture Books About Dreams and Dreamers of All Kinds – The New York Times.

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Q&A With Creator Of Forthcoming Bolivar – Hybrid Picture Book & Graphic Novel

November 28, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

This forthcoming title (not seemingly available in the UK till the end of December, but worth asking for isn specialist graphic novel shops) looks like one worthy of note. Publishers Weekly has just highlighted it and interviewed its creator Sean Rubin, previously known as the illustrator for Brian Jacques’ Redwall series….

Sean Rubin’s Bolivar is half picture book, half graphic novel—and all good, clean fun. The 224-page hardcover children’s book will be published this month by Archaia.

Bolivar tells the tale of a dinosaur named Bolivar who lives quietly on New York City’s Upper West Side. Dinosaurs may be extinct, but Bolivar definitely isn’t, and his fellow New Yorkers are so busy no one seems to notice his presence. And it’s not like he’s a recluse. He visits the Met, hangs out in Central Park, shops on 72nd Street and Broadway and loves old bookstores. He minds his own business, until his neighbor, a girl with a camera and nose for a mystery, sniffs him out.

Before his work on Bolivar, Rubin provided illustrations for the late Brian Jacques’ popular Redwall series of fantasy novels. He is also a contributor to Archaia’s Eisner Award-winning Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard Vol. 1, an anthology of comics stories by acclaimed illustrators set in Dave Petersen’s Mouse Guard fantasy world. PW spoke with Rubin about the long gestation of this new hybrid work.

for the Q&A (recommended) >>> https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/75486-bolivar-a-q-a-with-sean-rubin.html

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Oscar’s Book Prize Winner

May 16, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment


A story about a koala that hates change has won the £5000 Oscar’s Book Prize 2017.
The Koala Who Could by Rachel Bright and Jim Field won the prize for the best under-fives book at a ceremony in London on Monday night.
The award is named after Oscar Ashton who died from a heart condition in 2012 at the age of three and a half. It is supported by Amazon and the National Literacy Trust and aims to promote books that parents will love reading with young children.
via NEWS — Oscar’s Book Prize.

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6 Great New Picture Books for Kids – The New York Times

November 22, 2016 By achuka Leave a Comment

The best of this season’s picture books, chosen by Maria Russo, The New York Times Book Review’s children’s books editor.

via 6 Great New Picture Books for Kids – The New York Times.

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Hodder Children’s secures first Richard Adams picture book

November 15, 2016 By achuka Leave a Comment

Hodder Children’s Books will next year publish the first picture book by Watership Down author Richard Adams, with illustrations by Alex T Smith.

The book, The Adventures of Egg Box Dragon, is about a mischievous homemade dragon who loves solving mysteries. Hodder Children’s picture book publisher Emma Layfield acquired world rights to the text from Laura West at David Higham Associates. The deal with Smith was struck with his agent Alison Eldred of Arena Illustration.

The news that Adams was hoping to publish a picture book broke earlier this year when Adams told the Independent that The Adventures of Egg Box Dragon was inspired a craft project one of his daughters took part in at school in the 1960s.

His agent, Veronique Baxter at David Higham Associates, had earlier sent the text of the book to Juliet Mabey, editorial director at Oneworld, which published an illustrated edition of Watership Down in 2014. However, Mabey said the story had now found the right home with Hachette.

via Hodder Children’s secures first Richard Adams picture book | The Bookseller.

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The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2016

November 4, 2016 By achuka Leave a Comment

Every year since 1952, the [New York Times] Book Review has convened an independent panel of judges to select the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books. Judged purely on artistic merit, it’s the only annual award of its kind.

This year’s judges were G. Brian Karas, Cynthia Weill and Cheryl Wolf.

G. Brian Karas is the illustrator of over 70 books for children, including “Are You Going to Be Good?,” a Best Illustrated Books winner in 2005. Cynthia Weill is the director of the Center for Children’s Literature at Bank Street College of Education and the author of the First Concepts in Mexican Folk Art series; she holds a doctorate of education from Teachers College at Columbia University. Cheryl Wolf is the librarian for two New York City public elementary schools, the Neighborhood School and S.T.A.R. Academy.

The 2016 New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books are, in alphabetical order:

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CREDITFROM “THE CAT FROM HUNGER MOUNTAIN”

The Cat From Hunger Mountain

Written and illustrated by Ed Young

The wealthy, selfish Lord Cat lives in wasteful luxury high on a mountain and treats his servants with contempt, until a drought brings hunger and he is forced to change his ways. With complex collages that mix photographs, torn paper, string and other materials, Young creates a stunning visual symphony with a surprising and unsettling emotional power.

32 pp. Philomel Books. $17.99.


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CREDITFROM “THE DEAD BIRD”

The Dead Bird

By Margaret Wise Brown. Illustrated by Christian Robinson.

Brown’s quiet 1938 story of children who find a dead bird in the woods and give it a proper burial gets an exuberant, emotionally resonant update from Robinson, who moves the setting to an urban park and gives one child fairy wings, another a fox costume. Our reviewer, Mark Levine, praised Robinson’s “bold and angular visual style,” which features deceptively simple brushwork and masterly compositions.

32 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $17.99.


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CREDITFROM “FREEDOM IN CONGO SQUARE”

Freedom in Congo Square

By Carole Boston Weatherford. Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie.

Sweet and powerful rhymes count down the days from Monday to Sunday, when the enslaved people of New Orleans were allowed to join free blacks for a day of music, socializing and commerce. “Christie’s art is, as always, breathtaking, uniting folk art and sleek modern gestures with a graceful dynamism that calls to mind Jacob Lawrence and Benny Andrews,” our reviewer, Maria Russo, said.

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36 pp. Little Bee Books. $17.99.


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CREDITFROM “LITTLE RED”

Little Red

Written and illustrated by Bethan Woollvin

This reboot of the classic “Little Red Riding Hood” gives us a heroine who’s wised up from the start to the wolf’s trickster ways. Woollvin’s ingeniously minimalist illustrations use bold shapes and a palette of blacks, whites and grays with strategic pops of bright red, creating a jaunty and confident trip to the dark side and back.

32 pp. Peachtree. $16.95.


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CREDITFROM “THE POLAR BEAR”

The Polar Bear

Written and illustrated by Jenni Desmond

This factual account of polar bears’ biology and habitat also features the story of a curious little girl who gets lost in reading a book about polar bears and visits one in her imagination. Desmond’s varied illustrations combine watercolors, acrylic paint, pencil, crayon and printmaking techniques to create ever-changing moods and spectacular scenes of Arctic life.

40 pp. Enchanted Lion Books. $17.95.


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CREDITFROM “PREACHING TO THE CHICKENS”

Preaching to the Chickens

The Story of Young John Lewis
By Jabari Asim. Illustrated by E. B. Lewis.

Before John Lewis, the African-American civil rights leader and congressman, began his illustrious career, he was a boy growing up on an Alabama farm, practicing his oratorical skills on his family’s flock of chickens. The poignant, observant watercolors by the illustrator E. B. Lewis (no relation) are bathed in subtly changing light, making homespun scenes of country life seem celestial and exalted.

32 pp. Nancy Paulsen Books. $17.99.


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CREDITFROM “THE PRINCESS AND THE WARRIOR”

The Princess and the Warrior

A Tale of Two Volcanoes
Written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh

Tonatiuh presents his version of the legend of two volcanoes near Mexico City, in which Izta, the most beautiful princess in the land, falls in love with Popoca, a brave warrior of modest means. The book’s highly original style draws on images from traditional Mixtec art to create layered, mixed-texture collages that are both sweet and majestic in their timeless vision of love, war and eternity.

40 pp. Abrams. $16.95.


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CREDITFROM “THE TREE IN THE COURTYARD”

The Tree in the Courtyard

Looking Through Anne Frank’s Window
By Jeff Gottesfeld. Illustrated by Peter McCarty.

The famous tree that stood in the courtyard outside Anne Frank’s window bears witness to the Frank family’s long hiding and Anne’s capture by the Nazis during World War II. Using only brown ink and tiny, patient strokes, McCarty juxtaposes the tree’s growth with the somber realities and flashes of joy in Anne’s constrained young life, creating pages of devastating intensity and heartbreaking detail.

32 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $17.99.


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CREDITFROM “A VOYAGE IN THE CLOUDS”

A Voyage in the Clouds

The (Mostly) True Story of the First International Flight by Balloon in 1785
By Matthew Olshan. Illustrated by Sophie Blackall.

A British doctor named Jeffries and a French balloonist named Blanchard undertake a daring balloon flight — accompanied by their dogs, an English and a French bulldog, of course. Blackall’s exquisite watercolor and pencil illustrations of well-dressed people, dangerous waters and soaring balloons, done in creamy pastels and moody grays, have a winking vintage look, both witty and elegant.

32 pp. Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $17.99.


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CREDITFROM “THE WHITE CAT AND THE MONK”

The White Cat and the Monk

A Retelling of the Poem “Pangur Ban”
By Jo Ellen Bogart. Illustrated by Sydney Smith.

This book retells the ninth-century Old Irish poem “Pangur Ban,” a monk’s simple reflections on his companionship with his cat and the parallels between his scholarly pursuit of knowledge and the cat’s playful hunting. Smith’s “distinctive art . . . falls partway between modernist fairy tale and graphic novel, opening an inviting portal between past and present as the ancient story comes to life in a decidedly contemporary aesthetic,” our reviewer, Maria Popova, wrote.

32 pp. Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press. $18.95.

 

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David Almond to do two illustrated books with Walker

April 16, 2016 By achuka Leave a Comment

booksellerWalker Books UK has acquired two books by David Almond – a middle-grade novel that will be illustrated by Alex T Smith, and a picture book illustrated by Levi Pinfold.

Publishing director Jane Winterbotham negotiated a two-book deal for world rights with Almond’s agent, Catherine Clarke at Felicity Bryan Associates.

The middle-grade novel, The Tale of Angelino Brown, is the story of a tiny angel who appears one day in a bus driver’s pocket, going on to touch the lives of everyone in the town and the school. The picture book, entitled The Dam, is set in a flooded valley in Northumberland and is a “lyrical and poetic evocation of the power of music and community”.

Publication is set for 2017.

via David Almond to do two illustrated books with Walker | The Bookseller.

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The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2015

October 29, 2015 By achuka Leave a Comment

New York Times

Every year since 1952, the Book Review has convened an independent panel of judges to select the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books. Judged purely on artistic merit, it’s the only annual award of its kind.

This year’s judges were Frank Viva, Monica Edinger and Marjorie Ingall. Viva has written and illustrated several acclaimed books for children, including “Along a Long Road” — a previous Times Best Illustrated winner — “Outstanding in the Rain” and “Young Frank, Architect.” He is a frequent cover artist for The New Yorker and the managing director of the design firm Viva & Co. Edinger has been an elementary- and middle-school educator for more than 25 years and currently teaches fourth grade at the Dalton School in New York City. She is also the author of the picture book “Africa Is My Home” and blogs about children’s books at Educating Alice. Ingall is a columnist for Tablet and a frequent contributor of children’s book reviews to The Times and other publications. Her book “Mamaleh Knows Best: What Jewish Mothers Do to Raise Successful, Creative, Empathetic, Independent Children” will be published next year.

full list via The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2015 – The New York Times.

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