tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56585168788881888722024-03-13T02:30:15.154-07:00Curious PagesRecommended inappropriate children's books.Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-52324418497721229032010-10-14T08:40:00.000-07:002010-10-14T08:41:55.626-07:00GeorgieBy Robert Bright, 1944<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Guest Reviewer:</span> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">LISA BROWN</span></b></span><br />
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</style> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">For Halloween, another one of my earliest favorites.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">“Up in the attic of this little house there lived a little ghost. His name was Georgie.” </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">I believe this started my as-yet-unrealized childhood wish to sleep in an attic. Note the jaunty buttons on Georgie’s ghostly shroud.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</style> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">“Every night at the same time he gave the loose board on the stairs a little creak”</div><div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">This house is Victoriana at its best. It’s the home of Mr. and Mrs. Whittaker, and Georgie’s gentle nightly hauntings helped to lull them to sleep. However, when Mr. Whittaker fixed the creaks and squeaks in the house, Georgie began to feel unwanted and had to leave.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">But he was unable to find a new home that suited.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">“And Mr and Mrs. Whittaker knew when it was time to go to sleep again.”</div><div class="MsoNormal">There is something chilling about a drawing of a little ghost standing over the unsuspecting, sleeping Whittakers. It definitely makes me think about ghosts, and what they are actually supposed to be: um, dead people. So is Georgie a little dead boy? So how did he die? Why is he haunting that house? And what’s with the buttons?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06;">CURIOUS COMMENT:</span> For more Halloween fun, see Lisa's new book, <a href="http://www.vampireboysgoodnight.com/">VAMPIRE BOY'S GOOD NIGHT</a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="goog_50453283"></span><span id="goog_50453284"></span> </div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-4336583740232419012010-10-06T07:17:00.000-07:002010-10-06T07:17:45.392-07:00Dillweed's RevengeBy Florence Parry Heide and Carson Ellis, 2010<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqMVZiteltSeZc0lFUgR27-_FqUbqiTu976Rkf5YcRHYbv1dUOmWrFMkMcSC_TuA8qYhoIRuW-fl4Qq75Sx6IiPWk9O9qPGptCWQjeOWhfBkQ5OszKempk2nRixU7DdXRjy0yCCShlMCs/s1600/dill1a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqMVZiteltSeZc0lFUgR27-_FqUbqiTu976Rkf5YcRHYbv1dUOmWrFMkMcSC_TuA8qYhoIRuW-fl4Qq75Sx6IiPWk9O9qPGptCWQjeOWhfBkQ5OszKempk2nRixU7DdXRjy0yCCShlMCs/s320/dill1a.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is Dillweed with his friend Skorped.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Dillweed never went anywhere.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>He never had adventures.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>He never had a good time.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And those names! Skorped! Umblud! Perfidia! Dillweed!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Read more about it from <a href="http://www.carsonellis.com/blog/2010/08/22/dillweeds-revenge-at-nationale/">CARSON</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dillweeds-Revenge-Deadly-Dose-Magic/dp/0152063943">FLORENCE</a>.</div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-20700831081477260442010-07-14T12:06:00.000-07:002010-07-14T12:14:17.604-07:00LANE SMITH on It's a Book<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Time for another installment of </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">WHAT IN THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING?</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Is it shameless to write about my own book? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Yes.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBnmcvuTiaZ3b_9N7x7yMWfd_CIZcggq4jNbYN6Xish_gAlKDzkAKl2NNpvcMKO5-Tvcx86IipN5SV8vcKUfpGkHNfBiv_BcspERRns7jWQWZ_g43LMxv3n9pmBrw8GQuKA_P1zKfmKSQ/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBnmcvuTiaZ3b_9N7x7yMWfd_CIZcggq4jNbYN6Xish_gAlKDzkAKl2NNpvcMKO5-Tvcx86IipN5SV8vcKUfpGkHNfBiv_BcspERRns7jWQWZ_g43LMxv3n9pmBrw8GQuKA_P1zKfmKSQ/s320/1.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
Lane, a book about a book, a pirate-loving monkey, a jackass of a jackass. . . just what in the heck were you thinking?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">LANE RESPONDS:</span> Books surround me in every room of my house. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Many of my favorites can be found on this very site. These are books which I revisit again and again. I like the way books look, feel and smell. I like the various editions and the various cover designs and redesigns. </span></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Unlike Grandpa (me), today's kids are whip smart and tech savvy. I know eventually everything will be digital and kids won't even know from a regular old book book and that's fine. Truthfully? The reason I made the book? Certainly not to "throw down the gauntlet" as one critic has stated. Naw, I just thought digital vs. traditional made for a funny premise. No heavy message, I'm only in it for the laffs. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"> My first version featured a kid. I dummied up some ruffs showing a dummy of a kid who doesn't know what this thing called 'a book' is. "What's this?" he said. The narrator answers, "It's a book," etc. </span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">It seemed like a funny idea but in order for the premise to work the kid had to look goofy and I didn't want folks to think I was making fun of a child, even a goofy child. So like most of my book dummies I showed it to a few friends, friends whose opinions I have come to trust over the years. Among them my wife Molly who designed <i>It's a Book</i> and all of my books dating back to <i>The Big Pets</i>, and Bob, co-blogmaster of this site. As usual, Molly came up with a bunch of great ideas about type treatments and it was Bob's suggestion to make the characters animals.<br />
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I instantly thought of the Bros Grimm and their three character stories like <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/%7Edash/grimm018.html"><i>The Straw, The Coal and the Bean</i></a> or <i>The Mouse The Bird and the Sausage</i> (which I had illustrated for Marlo Thomas' <i>Thanks and Giving</i> treasury a few years ago). I thought, How about <i>the Mouse, the Monkey and the Jackass</i>?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The jackass is completely modern: He texts. He blogs. He tweets. He annoys. The monkey is traditional. He reads. He wants to be left alone. The jackass is relentless. “How do you scroll down?” he asks. “I don’t,” answers the monkey trying to read his pirate book. “I turn the page.” </span></span></div><div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Does it need a password?” asks the annoying jackass. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“No, it’s a book.” Says the monkey. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmH28mbiRsx7XCFWjfQw1gOBvgV6yit87TuG7jc_g0NBpKNwRiUjFU4WHWisnFNrqHoLSnDYKOILjDBlAGIdR7b3ca4Sv-gN9qADKBaFlSZugtoBKdfzsp440R4b1BQu50vIxW4S6AiYI/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmH28mbiRsx7XCFWjfQw1gOBvgV6yit87TuG7jc_g0NBpKNwRiUjFU4WHWisnFNrqHoLSnDYKOILjDBlAGIdR7b3ca4Sv-gN9qADKBaFlSZugtoBKdfzsp440R4b1BQu50vIxW4S6AiYI/s400/2.jpg" width="322" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjbYk11hyjrDRwcRoJ9jKTEsdloHDf2Z4hSQKaIur11XSu_xauweA9YOjlKLO23nnNWfh4SHv0JKGct62BBRrG9P8DPSAq6gXiV2lJKaMM9VmaU-oI4LZAQkA6b-2I2QOyUNvydqGsb58/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjbYk11hyjrDRwcRoJ9jKTEsdloHDf2Z4hSQKaIur11XSu_xauweA9YOjlKLO23nnNWfh4SHv0JKGct62BBRrG9P8DPSAq6gXiV2lJKaMM9VmaU-oI4LZAQkA6b-2I2QOyUNvydqGsb58/s320/3.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWUlQmpxinm5GkWX42HUWBBeAYAIeM7OCNYck7EWfaE1LIMtcrmyTo3PxHA86DOM3TVHRQ5-xv8LtBR5xIzap9ZOm75XlLiPcgVPbyMapTYS2l4GqVUeY5sZnVZNV4e-d50rcffIkAtFM/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWUlQmpxinm5GkWX42HUWBBeAYAIeM7OCNYck7EWfaE1LIMtcrmyTo3PxHA86DOM3TVHRQ5-xv8LtBR5xIzap9ZOm75XlLiPcgVPbyMapTYS2l4GqVUeY5sZnVZNV4e-d50rcffIkAtFM/s320/4.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I did the illustrations in brush and ink. I first tested the brush a few times on the edge of the page until the ink became desaturated enough for the dry brush effect I wanted.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQK6SE7M_C_E2p79zKooy_hVQahxnrtHGgMkH4XsHz8sFhlMo6QUlN8yoF71i8sEy8Ks6pxbN8QfO6Mq3aQnR8gha6Abh3UU6gKeD8fHn_vwxIF7RlUlnPF1pnUe6yJQD5l9uHuGzjzns/s1600/ink.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQK6SE7M_C_E2p79zKooy_hVQahxnrtHGgMkH4XsHz8sFhlMo6QUlN8yoF71i8sEy8Ks6pxbN8QfO6Mq3aQnR8gha6Abh3UU6gKeD8fHn_vwxIF7RlUlnPF1pnUe6yJQD5l9uHuGzjzns/s400/ink.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I then created textures using oil paints on hot press illustration board. I sprayed them with an acrylic spray (water based) while the paints (oil based) were still wet. This caused a chemical reaction to the paint giving them a mottled look. I then scanned all into the computer and assembled the final illustrations in Photoshop for greater control. (Back in the day, precomputer, I would paint several pieces simultaneously. Some would get too texture-y and I'd chuck them, some would eventually turn out. Assembling them on the computer eliminates this tedium.)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Molly suggested making the monkey's forehead bigger. She says it brings out the maternal instinct in the reader (or something along those lines). I liked the look, I kept it.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitMrk7JLCLeCuPmJ-ib3H6UkC3kuu_vWQ589CcDMBqWRFiVIsg8F63mpSlAd30xkSd-ojweHVGsNkslGkQZxN_gaf_PALgsZO8H1K922f7EB9rlsS0Hlk5SzeolyWPvfQcKyRUNKyLlrs/s1600/h.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitMrk7JLCLeCuPmJ-ib3H6UkC3kuu_vWQ589CcDMBqWRFiVIsg8F63mpSlAd30xkSd-ojweHVGsNkslGkQZxN_gaf_PALgsZO8H1K922f7EB9rlsS0Hlk5SzeolyWPvfQcKyRUNKyLlrs/s320/h.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I liked staging everything on the same, flat plane. Like a one act play. I believe it makes the humor more deadpan like in some of my favorite books.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmHwxFCOaiaofxvK5LIFpIIjTs22H-OySGBcBnvG8X9sukWkj6hhsr9rvZwb1EqKZ6H-Yt_Aft_FX8BxebhbaF7mdYXoi7yLNcOcgyq1n9LfNDh44PktynCO3huAaDLRSSuWpuYapLxSM/s1600/Sendak.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmHwxFCOaiaofxvK5LIFpIIjTs22H-OySGBcBnvG8X9sukWkj6hhsr9rvZwb1EqKZ6H-Yt_Aft_FX8BxebhbaF7mdYXoi7yLNcOcgyq1n9LfNDh44PktynCO3huAaDLRSSuWpuYapLxSM/s320/Sendak.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <i>Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must be More to Life</i> by Maurice Sendak, 1967</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE9qufd1bi44df_U32XSsZhVn6zfZNi54MPfHs11CTZ7iU7SQ6QupQ9O4jDl-oB3l6hrksZ4ueruxb1KDfNFelyjQysYtqhvAfxS1w1dnB3Wv0Vj5JYUu8Xa2BCCPeNot80UuhI4JgxDY/s1600/Carrot2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE9qufd1bi44df_U32XSsZhVn6zfZNi54MPfHs11CTZ7iU7SQ6QupQ9O4jDl-oB3l6hrksZ4ueruxb1KDfNFelyjQysYtqhvAfxS1w1dnB3Wv0Vj5JYUu8Xa2BCCPeNot80UuhI4JgxDY/s320/Carrot2.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <i>The Carrot Seed</i> by Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson, 1945</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So do the characters in some of my other books . . .</span></span><br />
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The bad mood keeps touching his stuff.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Then they stuff themselves into his little house. It looks like a lot of fun.<br />
I wish I lived there. Or had a summer house. Or a week long rental. In the off season because it's less expensive. It's still pretty I bet.<br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">WHY KIDS WILL LIKE IT: </span>The bad mood is a jerk, nice colors.<br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;">WHY GROWN UPS WON'T:</span> Maybe they're in a bad mood themselves. Who knows with grown ups, they're always bent out of shape about something.</div><br />
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<img alt="" src="file:///Users/bob/Pictures/iPhoto%20Library/Originals/2010/big%20rabbits%20bad%20mood_2/IMG_1157.JPG" />Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12984312188095779875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-19260773552054866932010-05-04T09:32:00.000-07:002010-05-04T09:32:43.305-07:00Making Picture Books is FunBy H.A. Rey, <i>Young Wings</i> (Junior Literary Guild), 1947<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdR0y8veMxjDu5FyTF81kGkfHFxdNj5rPaPC2tf1vvYzg0hTncvNLxExuGE4ZUty31vMilcP3aT7Qh-dOkACoOd8v1y9mLBrlHs7idietvJDifY9pk3kCILV1LcStCwd4AzA46HLJId9A/s1600/Rey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdR0y8veMxjDu5FyTF81kGkfHFxdNj5rPaPC2tf1vvYzg0hTncvNLxExuGE4ZUty31vMilcP3aT7Qh-dOkACoOd8v1y9mLBrlHs7idietvJDifY9pk3kCILV1LcStCwd4AzA46HLJId9A/s640/Rey.jpg" width="470" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Making picture books is fun. Try it some day.</div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-91479182830865949292010-04-25T13:12:00.000-07:002010-04-25T13:15:05.884-07:00ElizabiteBy H.A. Rey. 1942<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The memorable finale involves the near decapitation of a burgler.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeL25Nq4GSPmU1kHokSi2GVvyqgyfK_tOX8i48zJ50sin6Fxt6QfQr9fCyjekx_jRDAXANPz4Cro-JV2Ygbd2eVJN7538yHo2VPU0K-mhZ3kMparhE3q7xJSL4P3StmB3dn_KZOTbqFcA/s1600/eliz5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeL25Nq4GSPmU1kHokSi2GVvyqgyfK_tOX8i48zJ50sin6Fxt6QfQr9fCyjekx_jRDAXANPz4Cro-JV2Ygbd2eVJN7538yHo2VPU0K-mhZ3kMparhE3q7xJSL4P3StmB3dn_KZOTbqFcA/s400/eliz5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">A delightful read aloud for Earth Day.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">RECOMMENDED.</span></div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-43164497343221191892010-04-23T08:19:00.000-07:002010-04-23T08:19:39.021-07:00Let's Take a WalkBy Aaron Heller and Robert Deschamps, 1963<br />
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</div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-3525073416319367092010-04-18T10:00:00.000-07:002010-04-18T10:00:59.943-07:00KashtankaBy Anton Chekhov and Gennady Spirin, 1994<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Guest Reviewer:</span> <a href="http://www.saunderssaunderssaunders.com/">GEORGE SAUNDERS</a></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEP4CR0W12-X3hpQ5oqlO4KNGl_KPQrYJknmxoafjvtoVY30eiyz9KgQ6goQ28x0LaJKt7RCKrJQaYJk98PRxKmZCCsE1KT1bDhDNPzodKIQ44jEQVwarSHZ696FVO3EpuzOXEvBKm0bQ/s1600/Kash1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEP4CR0W12-X3hpQ5oqlO4KNGl_KPQrYJknmxoafjvtoVY30eiyz9KgQ6goQ28x0LaJKt7RCKrJQaYJk98PRxKmZCCsE1KT1bDhDNPzodKIQ44jEQVwarSHZ696FVO3EpuzOXEvBKm0bQ/s320/Kash1.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The story is simple: a dog gets lost, adjusts to her new home, is found by her old owners, goes happily back home. Like so much of Chekhov’s best work, it has the pace and emotional range of real life: no great villains, no great heroes, everybody trying to do his or her best. Neither master is an abusive brute. The dog is a small but pleasant part of both their lives. The first master is a woodcarver. The second trains domestic animals for a small-time circus act. The woodcarver is a bit cheap with the food, and stamps his feet now and then, but, in his favor, he has a son, and his house smells like woodshavings and glue. The animal trainer is a happy Falstaffian guy with a genuine affection for animals, who chomps a cigar, probably drinks a bit too much, has the occasional fling, when he can manage it, with the less-pretty of the three acrobats. <br />
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There is essentially no real drama. The dog will be fine either way, we sense. She is not traumatized by being lost – the way a dog would be in a lesser story, in which the writer would feel more compelled to anthropomorphize her – but adjusts quickly to the world in which she finds herself. Mostly, she smells things. There aren’t any bad smells, just less-interesting ones. Likewise, when her old owners come to the circus and reclaim her, she goes along happily, and by the time they reach home, she has all but forgotten her time with the circus, which “seemed no more than a long and confusing dream.”</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbwOHgIWRXSc5Etq34tXPjS9mZlwXYFfwTOvxMRJHRtSjy8YBuBScgOG9egdNli2w1pITRfMld0sqx4iYRa2bpI81B9lqOhWlycPweT01-jMtFQ8ArrJTInhPYPUfOoyzAgVmYZRhFROY/s1600/Kash3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbwOHgIWRXSc5Etq34tXPjS9mZlwXYFfwTOvxMRJHRtSjy8YBuBScgOG9egdNli2w1pITRfMld0sqx4iYRa2bpI81B9lqOhWlycPweT01-jMtFQ8ArrJTInhPYPUfOoyzAgVmYZRhFROY/s320/Kash3.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Spirin is the perfect illustrator for Chekhov. His work is realistic and rich in detail (the book opens with three gorgeous though understated Moscow street scenes) but also allows for a bit of Dickensian exaggeration (in Kashtanka’s madly proud dog-grin, in the way the imagined detritus of the wood-carving life almost crowds the animal-trainer out of the frame as Kashtanka longs for these familiar smells of his old home). Spirin is particularly wonderful with faces: the woodcarver looks a bit like Tolstoy, if Tolstoy were poor and had a touch of poverty-induced meanness about him. The circus-master is overweight, jolly, has no anger in him, drinks too much, has (we posit) a ratty collection of sleeping gowns, of which he is inordinately proud. In the circus crowd that hands Kashtanka back to his real owners, we see: a burly Russian soldier, a rat-faced middle-class fellow (who I somehow know is both near-sighted and judgmental; a fan of whatever political theory is newest) and a pretty young woman, in a veil, rapt with emotion: she takes this incident as proof of certain romantic beliefs, i.e., in her world, lost dogs are always found.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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These days, in <a href="http://www.saunderssaunderssaunders.com/">my own work</a>, I’m trying to strike a balance between the delights of realism (a bigger and more physical world, sensuality, verisimilitude) and those of a more exaggerative approach, an approach that comes more naturally to me and enables (in my work anyway) what feels like more ferocity and abandon, and a higher, darker type of truth. Reexamining this book has been interesting: Spirin seems able to have it both ways. He shows the (very real) scuffed boots of a musician in a Moscow regimental band, as well as a delighted-looking cat riding on the back of a nervous-looking goose riding on the back of a pig clearly beaming with pride.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-82971614720858423202010-04-17T07:33:00.000-07:002010-04-17T07:33:51.660-07:00Let's Tell a Fairy TaleBy Frantisek Hrubin and Jiri Trnka, 1954<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy6BDcm8xiP3A8XLMDAKSUHUu7KU1qv3TGchmuDI_1Uq_Mk6aGrcqQwjdYtyilGo7Jc9HeqryLF7EKQcvi46dmsRlgccQFplEUwkInlZvO8ZXjt9LgL_JTxYrHZySLSGtE6doPj-pZ6w4/s1600/Jiri1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy6BDcm8xiP3A8XLMDAKSUHUu7KU1qv3TGchmuDI_1Uq_Mk6aGrcqQwjdYtyilGo7Jc9HeqryLF7EKQcvi46dmsRlgccQFplEUwkInlZvO8ZXjt9LgL_JTxYrHZySLSGtE6doPj-pZ6w4/s320/Jiri1.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Genius animator <a href="http://www.radio.cz/en/article/97289">Jiri Trnka</a> was also an illustrator of children's books.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Let's tell a fairy tale of naughty kids . . .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFVTiif9_3HRMV5qXi34VGcDkZ_HNRQ2tJsdDozn29etCU37c46G20vUeeo6ek4ZahJm2nEi7q9LcA7W7hTp68ioSdeoVzsfVFB9N6NOaIU4ykUXu54ybGvXSxIBRAkWFDMw_itDbV1sM/s1600/jiri5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFVTiif9_3HRMV5qXi34VGcDkZ_HNRQ2tJsdDozn29etCU37c46G20vUeeo6ek4ZahJm2nEi7q9LcA7W7hTp68ioSdeoVzsfVFB9N6NOaIU4ykUXu54ybGvXSxIBRAkWFDMw_itDbV1sM/s320/jiri5.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKYsA_xWr847i9emHjO_1PXEjesFZUcQCEsSYwZlLgBMHQI1kFasFC-cDt_0clHocKXcUChhgPNhyphenhyphene1GS0Q1E_4vX-KFmWJpafHCWVBw64Gt-DrBevNrAAmjSQC-M3HXxUVC43cARCT4g/s1600/jiri6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKYsA_xWr847i9emHjO_1PXEjesFZUcQCEsSYwZlLgBMHQI1kFasFC-cDt_0clHocKXcUChhgPNhyphenhyphene1GS0Q1E_4vX-KFmWJpafHCWVBw64Gt-DrBevNrAAmjSQC-M3HXxUVC43cARCT4g/s320/jiri6.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and gluttons with blood on their cheeks . . .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6kNDaQcZrVp-AF5G_X4cOOD98gyEETbXmUKJO8Vk46j_7TOhKNmmIPhJ6FaOEgfmR5sjMrWVmH4KUPFxPw0iPaxP_NQVDzirbyFEUlPUXS7jscGgJ4gpu8EUBbmF1SL-G_ccr0gYpC48/s1600/jiri7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6kNDaQcZrVp-AF5G_X4cOOD98gyEETbXmUKJO8Vk46j_7TOhKNmmIPhJ6FaOEgfmR5sjMrWVmH4KUPFxPw0iPaxP_NQVDzirbyFEUlPUXS7jscGgJ4gpu8EUBbmF1SL-G_ccr0gYpC48/s320/jiri7.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuG0ibPa6Bojt7xe3w_i-kFZSp_uzP_FXjY7qs8nU_WGXwq9-DaR8ThKhVBivwCjxXd530_c3DEJblSNSKOqJFynHZoS67cWIuNHBPJG7K_4b-it4tmTDWtJPVmvxzWXDqeuhKI6kT_b0/s1600/jiri8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuG0ibPa6Bojt7xe3w_i-kFZSp_uzP_FXjY7qs8nU_WGXwq9-DaR8ThKhVBivwCjxXd530_c3DEJblSNSKOqJFynHZoS67cWIuNHBPJG7K_4b-it4tmTDWtJPVmvxzWXDqeuhKI6kT_b0/s320/jiri8.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and talking donuts in a time before <a href="http://www.lauriekeller.com/books/arnie_01.html"><i>Arnie</i></a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuhi6-geOiJUdXzdwCUUq4ky7xccJFNdQ62TdVVHYYUruoVL4MVmJeYdmc2NLYKw-9-ZVFnbLIlPnLd5wu5vG034dRQyJas8KXSGUEYfb5oejaDbu4yon7EiUU9YaTzUh0lKmNmZtle54/s1600/jiri+a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuhi6-geOiJUdXzdwCUUq4ky7xccJFNdQ62TdVVHYYUruoVL4MVmJeYdmc2NLYKw-9-ZVFnbLIlPnLd5wu5vG034dRQyJas8KXSGUEYfb5oejaDbu4yon7EiUU9YaTzUh0lKmNmZtle54/s320/jiri+a.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2bpHZ6_KIukquVxWk3oZZZ1p4fHOvlMDVyvPHFdgeUPqBPIA5floTcHLMqPag2-ZqJcC8_VLak-RDOM3gOVdPOyqAm6NR5XBw_sOI29ycoAD484HtRtwIxRxemv4zRtxFNKpYGyBHNag/s1600/jirib.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2bpHZ6_KIukquVxWk3oZZZ1p4fHOvlMDVyvPHFdgeUPqBPIA5floTcHLMqPag2-ZqJcC8_VLak-RDOM3gOVdPOyqAm6NR5XBw_sOI29ycoAD484HtRtwIxRxemv4zRtxFNKpYGyBHNag/s320/jirib.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jiri was not only a master director and illustrator, he was also a master of the madcap mane . . .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSkR6k_IhO_ifhDyOw3TczbuzEMvmKud_XVMg7HYRErRibQE5KezD0O_iGDP60ZfSuLil8HKbxBzsBM7QM3a4QPEGkgQ7su3z9mHHcTLirUUD_0G7RJ1yv9MMZZujONlnM7fOe57593Gg/s1600/jiri12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSkR6k_IhO_ifhDyOw3TczbuzEMvmKud_XVMg7HYRErRibQE5KezD0O_iGDP60ZfSuLil8HKbxBzsBM7QM3a4QPEGkgQ7su3z9mHHcTLirUUD_0G7RJ1yv9MMZZujONlnM7fOe57593Gg/s320/jiri12.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Light Socket™</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-34878271782508414302010-04-10T13:20:00.000-07:002010-04-10T13:20:43.929-07:00More and More Ant and BeeBy Angela Banner and Bryan Ward, 1961<br />
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</div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-46470928867289747752010-04-05T10:39:00.000-07:002010-04-05T10:39:48.785-07:00CleanlinessBy Virginia Parkinson and the Sass-Dorne Studio, 1943<br />
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</div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-686035668129879782010-04-02T08:28:00.000-07:002010-04-02T08:40:52.157-07:00This Thumbprintby Ruth Krauss, 1967<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>This Thumbprint fell in the lake</i> . . . where a catfish drew graffiti on its torso.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">ALSO SEE:</span> Munro Leaf and Ed Emberley.</div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-5527878543336819562010-03-28T09:45:00.000-07:002010-03-28T09:45:43.562-07:00The Little Red EngineBy Diana Ross and Lewitt-Him, 1942<br />
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But he doesn't. This is a kid's book.</div><div style="color: #b45f06; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">WHAT DID WE LEARN?</span> In picture books, the train with the cutest face always wins.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-64131520854461017132010-03-25T08:25:00.000-07:002010-03-25T08:25:59.482-07:00A Drop of BloodBy Paul Showers and Don Madden, 1967<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.americanchickens.com/">Lisa Brown</a> is back with another curious recommendation:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Guest Reviewer:</span> <b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">LISA BROWN</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-pEMuOQjPPrDmQyvVRicYwXlPw7aa5Y9UPXpMlO7FhQPINa9bJ-6iXq47sQwXTxPKOM2hlk6pmoS_dZJ4xrh5HNSiuSCbc1D6ah5Ck_lNZBu4AaLO5c0Fvqc4CEqyllov4bSAPZ0R8vU/s1600/dropofbloodcov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-pEMuOQjPPrDmQyvVRicYwXlPw7aa5Y9UPXpMlO7FhQPINa9bJ-6iXq47sQwXTxPKOM2hlk6pmoS_dZJ4xrh5HNSiuSCbc1D6ah5Ck_lNZBu4AaLO5c0Fvqc4CEqyllov4bSAPZ0R8vU/s320/dropofbloodcov.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have no idea where this book came from, but I am in love.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
Don Madden illustrated about a gazillion other books, including tons about mathematics and my new favorite, <i>Gravity is a Mystery</i>. Paul Showers, who has a fantastic name, wrote 20 more books for the <i>Let's-Read-and-Find-Out</i> series.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWVxdX04T0uwAs_bfG1f5EB79oBh9XfRGguw3LmmrBjtYLqOg7WO1eCSWhVnopc3K3CNeY65Ur8sFmxH1OlWzV2zJ6nADA4Dc1Py5wxC6IB5si9gTZy8BwtZhs1jCHPLAWFKtySc9cmOY/s1600/-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWVxdX04T0uwAs_bfG1f5EB79oBh9XfRGguw3LmmrBjtYLqOg7WO1eCSWhVnopc3K3CNeY65Ur8sFmxH1OlWzV2zJ6nADA4Dc1Py5wxC6IB5si9gTZy8BwtZhs1jCHPLAWFKtySc9cmOY/s200/-1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <i>A Drop of Blood</i> was re-published like this, presumably to catch a ride on the vampire popularity wave.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhySX61xuYUvCVA7Ddtnng5eOwDFKdKefkZXgaJZZUiz3r-FYrUzH9fw2VE67utLCmj69sq3k2KunNYeT_EChAJXLc_JPtfwVNCCaLHqr3h_RXNp-fXkNf1mlML0Xc7g7D00R5K4SujAF4/s1600/dropblood1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhySX61xuYUvCVA7Ddtnng5eOwDFKdKefkZXgaJZZUiz3r-FYrUzH9fw2VE67utLCmj69sq3k2KunNYeT_EChAJXLc_JPtfwVNCCaLHqr3h_RXNp-fXkNf1mlML0Xc7g7D00R5K4SujAF4/s400/dropblood1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div>In the first scene, our hero cuts his finger, apparently whittling. His dog is intrigued. Who gives a kid a knife?</div><div><br />
</div><div><i>"When you cut yourself, you make a hole in your skin.</i></div><div><i>Blood leaks out through the hole.</i></div><div><i>If the cut is small, it soon stops bleeding."</i></div><div><br />
</div><div>Which begs the question: How large does the cut have to be to bleed without end?</div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnE7Xqjy7VDl8SGcGVLd4prMEDyneKbxVOL-FoGzhVghh4DSPUWzhBcSzATUNWva-glMAqpnxWvx7Sjhyphenhyphen-42icbRC4Y_ebNOm8GIIrL3C2be55WOqrPWwB9LWJwTlBO1aHp14w3oETJv0/s1600/dropblood2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnE7Xqjy7VDl8SGcGVLd4prMEDyneKbxVOL-FoGzhVghh4DSPUWzhBcSzATUNWva-glMAqpnxWvx7Sjhyphenhyphen-42icbRC4Y_ebNOm8GIIrL3C2be55WOqrPWwB9LWJwTlBO1aHp14w3oETJv0/s400/dropblood2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><div>The dog seems delighted that the boy got bonked in the nose. And now, we inexplicably turn to verse:</div><div> </div><div><i>"Oh there's blood in your arms and your legs,</i></div><div><i>There's blood in your fingers and toes,</i></div><div><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>And once in awhile</i></div><div><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>When a game gets too rough,</i></div><div><i>You'll find that there's blood in your nose."</i></div><div><i> </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcyg4WzDwD3aHIQMqTSGh54HlKGb-BbZgLxVHO7DbnRr3vd4hvgo1Eq5BZ_7LdTviPcQT9N32qzoAGxCfIguRS-Gho_cOQi_a1fmN8ziGHkMAzRXKppYkyMZTH_f2TpaNGcnd7DvdO8W8/s1600/dropblood4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcyg4WzDwD3aHIQMqTSGh54HlKGb-BbZgLxVHO7DbnRr3vd4hvgo1Eq5BZ_7LdTviPcQT9N32qzoAGxCfIguRS-Gho_cOQi_a1fmN8ziGHkMAzRXKppYkyMZTH_f2TpaNGcnd7DvdO8W8/s400/dropblood4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><i> </i>Here is a design for my new favorite wallpaper pattern. The composition is gorgeous.</div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRspsP1p5z-5YyNtSDD1aIV5K8A7vXlIq3gVaQmeHkfr3uQRbRcehF9nbyU84CO9-gZkD-9TsEeiTdOiu8RkLF5r18Hajcrx8hBzS8Ep8vOG6eIgBFKG-R4P4JHVq9B8uuTtiHOEscauo/s1600/dropblood3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRspsP1p5z-5YyNtSDD1aIV5K8A7vXlIq3gVaQmeHkfr3uQRbRcehF9nbyU84CO9-gZkD-9TsEeiTdOiu8RkLF5r18Hajcrx8hBzS8Ep8vOG6eIgBFKG-R4P4JHVq9B8uuTtiHOEscauo/s400/dropblood3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div>Here we get a bloody knee and a lesson about scabs. Yum! Don't pick your scabs, kids!</div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlrZz-qTTuIH0bb_d02uScjGl5qaoATyW2GXCAzni9P9kfb0KrKAUFF8JuII_zeaiU8zRmLGpTlnBbQrcQxfuOIV19XH6qkaSFJYzQ-MZkA-buUjTBGvNQDUgW8YO8m8iISxaTbzMfqRA/s1600/dropblood5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlrZz-qTTuIH0bb_d02uScjGl5qaoATyW2GXCAzni9P9kfb0KrKAUFF8JuII_zeaiU8zRmLGpTlnBbQrcQxfuOIV19XH6qkaSFJYzQ-MZkA-buUjTBGvNQDUgW8YO8m8iISxaTbzMfqRA/s400/dropblood5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div> <div>And we're back to rhyme:</div><div><br />
</div><div><i>"Sometimes I cut my finger,</i></div><div><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sometimes I scrape me knee.</i></div><div><i>Sometimes a drop or two of blood</i></div><div><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Comes dripping out of me."</i></div><div><br />
</div><div>"'Pure poetry,' says the vampire, licking his lips." I made that part up.</div></div><div><i> </i></div><div><i> </i></div><div><i> </i></div></div></div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-45249984379452216922010-03-22T08:05:00.000-07:002010-03-22T08:08:45.361-07:00Jon-Jon and Annetteby Elzbieta, 1993<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">A book about war. And bunnies!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Jon-Jon said, "I'm going to the brook to play with Annette." . . . But where the brook once was, there was now a thornbush</i>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOxyzFxrvD6HmUZnJKbCsHVCem2QeGJr5jp_GraD4hl2k4cwzz9eRGKWHiW9Gknz821EClZ_QGOt4Hncl0EPbMGuQ5dzZDXlS43SVU6qSE-k-jymFAM016Em6I7kpuKL80KnRRxA5Bs88/s1600-h/jj5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOxyzFxrvD6HmUZnJKbCsHVCem2QeGJr5jp_GraD4hl2k4cwzz9eRGKWHiW9Gknz821EClZ_QGOt4Hncl0EPbMGuQ5dzZDXlS43SVU6qSE-k-jymFAM016Em6I7kpuKL80KnRRxA5Bs88/s320/jj5.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>All of a sudden, [Jon-Jon] heard Annette calling him . . . </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3rSKiMYCo-gqbrgVl2k7czSShnioXlkv89pBdl5F9vqdsNMkS54rU5NN-sxKcLGgu6AVb2P2WqyY2oDyGXQMXUj8YCIT8XPs0PrMBLBYxwXs3LzXnc_D_N1r3yOPTZ785JFwOFK4qidk/s1600-h/jj8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3rSKiMYCo-gqbrgVl2k7czSShnioXlkv89pBdl5F9vqdsNMkS54rU5NN-sxKcLGgu6AVb2P2WqyY2oDyGXQMXUj8YCIT8XPs0PrMBLBYxwXs3LzXnc_D_N1r3yOPTZ785JFwOFK4qidk/s320/jj8.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">[Annette] <i>had made a little hole in the thorns and crossed over to the other side of the brook.</i> </div><div style="text-align: center;">And was immediately shot.</div><div style="text-align: center;">(Just kidding. They probably lived happily ever after.)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-82515290030074484862010-03-17T07:57:00.000-07:002010-03-17T08:02:19.983-07:00David's Little Indianby Margaret Wise Brown and Remy Charlip, 1956<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">This tiny book fits in your hand like the little Indian on the cover.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Our favorite Margaret Wise Brown story and another top-notch illustration treatment by Charlip.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>And to make certain he was real, the little boy pushed him...</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"What day is it?" asked the boy.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>...the little Indian answered, "...Day of the first nut that fell... Day of the little blue dish... Day of the cold nose..."</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">FAVORITE LINE:</span> <i>"Day of the dreary grown-ups."</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Blood mingling. Probably not a good idea.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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In our inscribed copy, Mr. Charlip gives us the original title.</div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-53434458458488782242010-03-14T11:15:00.000-07:002010-03-14T11:21:30.966-07:00Brave Potatoesby Toby Speed and Barry Root, 2000<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Guest Reviewer:</span> <b><a href="http://www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PHILIP NEL</span></a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Cruelty to vegetables!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">No chefs were killed in the making of this book. See? He's just a little wet. The soup was merely damp, and not boiling hot. You didn't really see clouds of steam a few pages back. That was just your imagination. Honest.</div><div style="color: #b45f06; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">WHY CHILDREN WILL LIKE IT:</span> Confirms their suspicions about vegetables.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-60998486376992193652010-03-12T09:42:00.000-08:002010-03-12T10:53:26.461-08:00The Monkey in the Rocketby Jean Bethell and Sergio Leone, 1962<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEPB723-_R4p9K9AIs9K_ppu47r95MCfaxUk6XJ020oy2piKvtn_LrPDW-W29zszfTztUHA4QRpxjQ5qjunn1cQAPxdBVqLpK4APyhfqs0VpfHMls_WitRLS27mFl8jYRKzSgfkEqpj8M/s1600-h/SM1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEPB723-_R4p9K9AIs9K_ppu47r95MCfaxUk6XJ020oy2piKvtn_LrPDW-W29zszfTztUHA4QRpxjQ5qjunn1cQAPxdBVqLpK4APyhfqs0VpfHMls_WitRLS27mFl8jYRKzSgfkEqpj8M/s320/SM1.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">We thought in 1961 Sergio Leone was consumed with finishing touches on his directorial debut, <i>The Colossus of Rhodes,</i> but apparently he also found time to clock in some hours at Wonder Books illustrating classics like <i>The Monkey in the Rocket</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Or as J.Otto Seibold reimagines the scene . . .<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">ALSO RECOMMENDED:</span> <i>Monkey Business</i> by J. Otto Seibold and Vivian Walsh (1995) and <i>Space Monkey</i> by Olive Burt (1960).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBEUh_u_iyJHyjh_2P-Ar3hX-94ILPhYGjVB0xBEwTBDoAJdQEbP2pZPbK12fh0w9G2bMLXuV4J_Vgnchx-v23pwyhxBJdMLCMcjCQiBmqnSUk8XgaYZVioX3RPTtAJ4vvRipAqgBPFa4/s1600-h/sm+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBEUh_u_iyJHyjh_2P-Ar3hX-94ILPhYGjVB0xBEwTBDoAJdQEbP2pZPbK12fh0w9G2bMLXuV4J_Vgnchx-v23pwyhxBJdMLCMcjCQiBmqnSUk8XgaYZVioX3RPTtAJ4vvRipAqgBPFa4/s320/sm+8.jpg" /><span id="goog_1268414165068"></span><span id="goog_1268414165069"></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd-hrxQAYMMuZYkPk9Z0NzKxiaimBVnZ-630w3Ir4U3530L9wgUfGtrO16ERB76dzgVEWdtVaQRLBqofBrCSqUPzdrEmPqqGdmpRszgOuFd5MWKyOZIOJssx_POr20fp5FsZUpIJhLibE/s1600-h/sm9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd-hrxQAYMMuZYkPk9Z0NzKxiaimBVnZ-630w3Ir4U3530L9wgUfGtrO16ERB76dzgVEWdtVaQRLBqofBrCSqUPzdrEmPqqGdmpRszgOuFd5MWKyOZIOJssx_POr20fp5FsZUpIJhLibE/s320/sm9.jpg" /><span id="goog_1268414165075"></span><span id="goog_1268414165076"></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjog0tBBUwzH82YWiDZwNl8ogtrBzZiav1WL7qVLEn3dFLQEc9v5-p8LczDgzrFxh3DyH61NDHuhcvHaE_RYz8ci19HnXrw_-vjF72u9bbC7T8icmWq3g7mEZZmP7Q99460xB93o9TADF8/s1600-h/sm10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjog0tBBUwzH82YWiDZwNl8ogtrBzZiav1WL7qVLEn3dFLQEc9v5-p8LczDgzrFxh3DyH61NDHuhcvHaE_RYz8ci19HnXrw_-vjF72u9bbC7T8icmWq3g7mEZZmP7Q99460xB93o9TADF8/s320/sm10.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>After the flight a famous lady poses for the newspapers</i>. And Space Monkey too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-71715674323673327472010-02-28T11:03:00.000-08:002010-02-28T11:23:04.149-08:00Uncle Shelby's ABZ Bookby Shel Silverstein, 1961<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7e5ZVIpB4sw&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7e5ZVIpB4sw&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-81532197350953485542010-02-25T07:35:00.000-08:002010-02-25T11:27:42.030-08:00FLORENCE PARRY HEIDE on the Treehorn trilogy<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
Today we introduce a new segment to <i>Curious Pages</i>. We call it:</div><div style="color: #6aa84f; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">WHAT IN THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">First up, the legendary Florence Parry Heide. Ms. Heide is the author of over one hundred books for children. Some of her titles include: <i>Fables You Shouldn't Pay Any Attention To, Grim and Ghastly Goings-On, Tales For the Perfect Child, Princess Hyacinth: the Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated </i>and the forthcoming<i> Dillweed's Revenge (A Deadly Dose of Magic)</i> illustrated by Carson Ellis.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Arguably, her most famous books are those from her <i>Treehorn</i> trilogy illustrated by Edward Gorey. Unlike many picture books from this era, these books were odd, deadpan, surreal and sophisticated. So we ask: <i>Florence, just what in the heck were you thinking?</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So the fact that THE SHRINKING OF TREEHORN had been turned down a few times was not </div>dismaying to me. But wait a minute! Look what's happening! It's been accepted, by <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1267038999_0">Holiday House</span>! That by itself was enough to make my head spin, but now look: <a href="http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/biography.html"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1267038999_1" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Edward Gorey</span></a> was to be the illustrator! Edward Gorey, whose work I had so admired, was to illustrate one of my books!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">And now: I was to meet him. I, Ms Plain Vanilla, was to meet the famous and fabulous <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1267038999_2">Edward Gorey</span>: John Briggs of Holiday House had so arranged. We were to sign copies of the newly published THE SHRINKING OF TREEHORN. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And there he was: be still my heart. He asked me to call him Ted. Edward Gorey asked me to call him Ted! He gave me a beanbag frog he'd made on which he'd stitched: <i>I have turned green</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We were instant friends, lifelong friends. Each time I came to <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1267038999_3" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;">New York</span>, and in those days I was a frequent visitor, we would see each other, have lunch, talk. And talk. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Would I write a Treehorn sequel? Oh, good, of course: TREEHORN'S TREASURE. He loved it. John Briggs loved it. And each time Ted (!) and I saw each other, he assured me that he'd start working on it very soon. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See? once I start thinking of him I can't stop. Those were wonderful times. I used to stay at the old <a href="http://www.phigam.org/images/Sites/RoyaltonHotel.JPG">Royalton</a>, which was not at all like the new Royalton. It's across from the Algonquin. He still lived on 38th Street. He'd come over and we'd walk to lunch. He walked everywhere. And we'd talk. And talk. We'd planned to write a murder mystery play with my brother, David, an Agatha Christie kind of play- and -- </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You've seen pictures of him . . . very tall, a white beard, wonderfully blue, blue eyes that really DID twinkle - blue jeans, sneakers, and although he used to wear fur coats he stopped doing that out of reverence for animals. He told me, though, that he'd saved them all, had put them in storage, he had loved those fur coats.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Oh, I was to tell you how I thought of the story of Treehorn? . . . this is how it was--- </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was ready to write another story and was sitting at my typewriter ---but look at the time! it's nearly noon, and my five children would be rushing in for lunch any minute now--in those days, kids came home from school for lunch. So I was rushing to fix something for lunch when: in they came. </div><div style="text-align: center;">"Can Mike come for dinner tonight, could you call his Mom right now?"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Look, I skinned my knee, I need a bandaid!"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"I have to have a quarter for class dues!"</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">And more. And all at once. And I realized that I was saying "That's nice, dear," to each one. And then I thought that I'd probably been saying that every day for ever and ever. And because I had been looking for an idea for a new book, I thought what about a mother who keeps saying That's nice, dear, no matter what's happening. So: something really surprising happens to a boy and his mother just keeps saying things like, That's nice, dear. What might that surprising thing be? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">That afternoon a neighborhood boy came to the door. I hadn't seen him all winter, and I found myself saying, "My, how you've grown, Richard!" and then I thought: Oh, for heavens sake, of COURSE he's grown, don't sound so surprised. Surprised would be if he'd grown smaller.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhzzzQrpMeAov-6rwoobznjFs2arAHpc89V2QiGWfM5B1D9-hLwHU4ubwlt0QYrJ7Mef5s_p4ZzCgtcOT1zDyw68rIOCS7O8Ty66V39K7A8iTsPFk59Vm9TbbUQEldCL0feyUdAbhwmgs/s1600-h/Shrink+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhzzzQrpMeAov-6rwoobznjFs2arAHpc89V2QiGWfM5B1D9-hLwHU4ubwlt0QYrJ7Mef5s_p4ZzCgtcOT1zDyw68rIOCS7O8Ty66V39K7A8iTsPFk59Vm9TbbUQEldCL0feyUdAbhwmgs/s320/Shrink+2.jpg" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I wrote THE SHRINKING OF HAROLD.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'd just finished it when my mother came over for coffee. She was always interested in what I was writing, so I handed it to her to read. She liked it, but said, "But why do you call him Harold, dear? That's a nice name but the other names you've used have been more. . . dashing." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-82146804789133901402010-02-24T09:43:00.000-08:002010-02-24T10:52:48.380-08:00Cinderellaby Dick Bruna, 1966<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7s49dO3pWb1rebD-FsMlX7yieN9GdiDmVsvJIZ0tz0EuaJpCAsha51TEjdUfXbthcZEDO5nf0e4LFmYL8L0n6teEBMjE6mgN9_8O-3GD7zROcOupinuire4wBCcsgP_fEZ0PX10RRehI/s1600-h/08_00-cover.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441868761426074498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7s49dO3pWb1rebD-FsMlX7yieN9GdiDmVsvJIZ0tz0EuaJpCAsha51TEjdUfXbthcZEDO5nf0e4LFmYL8L0n6teEBMjE6mgN9_8O-3GD7zROcOupinuire4wBCcsgP_fEZ0PX10RRehI/s400/08_00-cover.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 394px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a>Here's a title from "Miffy" creator Dick Bruna.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc8sCNK2fbshoHhcV501j4D0BiFinuFsD_CaeGFtfxaj_YK8IUo0KMBwgDU6uu5ErkmRquA13e9Oz4HNsCrAQaZ20eiV2ye8i5-11ypTJ8RMcvwaazZoK1IGbC8Z9pNMBQB8Kn1_83pQU/s1600-h/08_01.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441868421570658866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc8sCNK2fbshoHhcV501j4D0BiFinuFsD_CaeGFtfxaj_YK8IUo0KMBwgDU6uu5ErkmRquA13e9Oz4HNsCrAQaZ20eiV2ye8i5-11ypTJ8RMcvwaazZoK1IGbC8Z9pNMBQB8Kn1_83pQU/s400/08_01.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a>Mr. Bruna was influenced by the De Stijil design movement. De Stijil is a Dutch word meaning “home at a reasonable time.”<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipdpvKzH1iJEs7ZGsUQWnmZz5mzYvwd2b7svMXswFXNPricLzAUVn5Y3cQ2un4aNS7mXCuqnejSWEay-frmolyrynFjDwh6OJ567chGrTllIWsBwnz9dcQbg-Kwg2y-GeSpCMnyR6oHOo/s1600-h/07_02.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441868424299629426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipdpvKzH1iJEs7ZGsUQWnmZz5mzYvwd2b7svMXswFXNPricLzAUVn5Y3cQ2un4aNS7mXCuqnejSWEay-frmolyrynFjDwh6OJ567chGrTllIWsBwnz9dcQbg-Kwg2y-GeSpCMnyR6oHOo/s400/07_02.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a>It's hard to see in this photo, but just to the left of the girls is a scary lion or an explosion. It's a wild ride, this one.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJkvOh2Hvj1kZCEysuQpa5iV24VLFTx_EIhxynojdSVjuy-RIsaaVs6Pd8Ef0iwBmPuXwMPc1WU_UP4NwzpGruLtOIEkQENnXqq4ATjrSCiyCU8a9fdDYvmJU8A2PZJwUsS4AaDl0pSp4/s1600-h/06_03.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441868412574635730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJkvOh2Hvj1kZCEysuQpa5iV24VLFTx_EIhxynojdSVjuy-RIsaaVs6Pd8Ef0iwBmPuXwMPc1WU_UP4NwzpGruLtOIEkQENnXqq4ATjrSCiyCU8a9fdDYvmJU8A2PZJwUsS4AaDl0pSp4/s400/06_03.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a>The addition of a magic pigeon keeps him from getting sued by Cinderella's original writer, Walt Disney. Don't worry, I don't think he's very litigious.<br />You might be hearing from Mo Willems though.<br /><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw34gUn2oByUvRqKcojCmJdT-wc7PlIdF8vcuo2tYIlpcRZIpLXh0et6tokyNuxwTYSoA8hyphenhyphenFu9Em7ubSjvC6JXfwQou919sSdDV4D7z20uTky84Ile9jppjtrH8m8L4IU_U-OMGGPswA/s1600-h/05_04.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441867803123870338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw34gUn2oByUvRqKcojCmJdT-wc7PlIdF8vcuo2tYIlpcRZIpLXh0et6tokyNuxwTYSoA8hyphenhyphenFu9Em7ubSjvC6JXfwQou919sSdDV4D7z20uTky84Ile9jppjtrH8m8L4IU_U-OMGGPswA/s400/05_04.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-FPSvyfDdr-k5S1odpDRFh5QKO46y9ZYAqFfPBPbuU1q1zvXpp1Vw0kKrsv9yhLYJx_KZWBuLcnFuWnFmrzkM0w8nfIl9TKZGifyKh1feBH-lU1Po4lgmfdCfD3Nqkun0Ov0DEveqy-0/s1600-h/04_05.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441867798953290962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-FPSvyfDdr-k5S1odpDRFh5QKO46y9ZYAqFfPBPbuU1q1zvXpp1Vw0kKrsv9yhLYJx_KZWBuLcnFuWnFmrzkM0w8nfIl9TKZGifyKh1feBH-lU1Po4lgmfdCfD3Nqkun0Ov0DEveqy-0/s400/04_05.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a>This is where the story really cooks. They're gonna be sore tomorrow from all that dancing.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigAhS-99Uc0Ni8naD774uYCV2xU7Y40cdTnfI1QmXxKbIeJoGYGEmwhtU1cdZu7Wah-0K73btbv0Jv14O2-tseEi_hERR3VUh5GgHKNR80PKITrE9zB7LVmqLlYrr-w3FJGwgsIzP9nGM/s1600-h/03_06.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441867797590530450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigAhS-99Uc0Ni8naD774uYCV2xU7Y40cdTnfI1QmXxKbIeJoGYGEmwhtU1cdZu7Wah-0K73btbv0Jv14O2-tseEi_hERR3VUh5GgHKNR80PKITrE9zB7LVmqLlYrr-w3FJGwgsIzP9nGM/s400/03_06.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a>Watch out! This charming story is turning into a white knuckle, full-throttle thrill ride thanks to some well timed pointing.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5-K08m4P_Mlx_hAqM8OD7hOhX2ezlzN4pDmNvIPgTnph77vpUMPsMupJ5Aj_bU-8JQM1V1j5rLSWnCRnm6YXaH98gNKnjb-xTRZE_ORjyklZ5VV4GmGTgcIlm_GrJyhcZASzOsilq3Rg/s1600-h/02_07.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441867788983746978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5-K08m4P_Mlx_hAqM8OD7hOhX2ezlzN4pDmNvIPgTnph77vpUMPsMupJ5Aj_bU-8JQM1V1j5rLSWnCRnm6YXaH98gNKnjb-xTRZE_ORjyklZ5VV4GmGTgcIlm_GrJyhcZASzOsilq3Rg/s400/02_07.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a>HA! Screw you!<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvjy6MwSgU9l_G2be7nK5hI6VdOc3DXoGbWw7-zgpGqkqKmn1mDO7rzR_MPoFCK-sRekshJEr9SN0F-HFLqI92NzKLT97i-9ptJNC44ESrk-fZhAzLky4pltVp29Wbv9ZGzB58glHqnQ0/s1600-h/01_08.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441867781742240578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvjy6MwSgU9l_G2be7nK5hI6VdOc3DXoGbWw7-zgpGqkqKmn1mDO7rzR_MPoFCK-sRekshJEr9SN0F-HFLqI92NzKLT97i-9ptJNC44ESrk-fZhAzLky4pltVp29Wbv9ZGzB58glHqnQ0/s400/01_08.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a>Isn't that the sweetest thing you have ever seen? Really.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">WHY KIDS WILL LIKE IT: </span>Adrenaline rush, charming</div>Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12984312188095779875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-71774578247912623442010-02-22T13:47:00.000-08:002010-02-22T13:47:57.728-08:00How to Make an Earthquakeby Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson, 1954<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRqUmfircp5d99EnbLqSu_Su5OwJBPB_zG8POvXC1-HWEo-qx8i_h6HXQ4PiZDePBuhp6bGynGCHGSExPLpAWDiOGpj4AEtjKS03bbvU4Ivd2MdPMR3HrPlrsfkfsvLu9YAX0XmOXY3KY/s1600-h/how11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRqUmfircp5d99EnbLqSu_Su5OwJBPB_zG8POvXC1-HWEo-qx8i_h6HXQ4PiZDePBuhp6bGynGCHGSExPLpAWDiOGpj4AEtjKS03bbvU4Ivd2MdPMR3HrPlrsfkfsvLu9YAX0XmOXY3KY/s320/how11.jpg" /></a></div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-69456087813168500622010-02-19T11:26:00.000-08:002010-02-19T12:57:03.508-08:00Classic ProvensenWe think Alice and Martin Provensen were the greatest husband/wife illustration tag-team ever. They could do it all from animal stories to folk tales to biographies. What made them unique was that each of their books had its own distinct style appropriate to the tale they were telling, yet no matter how different the style it was always, unmistakeably, a Provensen.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In future posts we will showcase a portfolio of the Provensens stylized, humorous illustrations from <i>The Animal Fair, A Child's Garden of Verses</i>, etc and folk tales such as <i>A Visit to William Blake's Inn</i> and Little Golden Book titles like the classic, <i>The Little Fat Policeman</i>.</div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-19507960320525535122010-02-16T11:32:00.000-08:002010-02-16T11:32:15.078-08:00The Bomb and the General, The Three Astronautsby Umberto Eco and Eugenio Carmi, 1989<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">SECOND FAVORITE BIT:</span><i><span style="color: black;"> The Earthlings had learned their lesson by now: Just because two creatures are different they don't have to be enemies. So each went over to the Martian with his hand extended. And since the Martian had six, he could shake hands with all three men at once and, at the same time, he could wave joyfully with his other hands. </span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">WHY CHILDREN WILL LIKE IT:</span> Eugenio Carmi's inventive collages. Who else would think of portraying an American astronaut with a Chiclets wrapper?</span></span> </div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658516878888188872.post-26919898082950211242010-02-12T09:12:00.000-08:002010-02-12T09:12:47.833-08:00The Fabulous Firework Familyby James Flora, 1955<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTib1TBIhrtefNYymhf5pJo6PqsPHH0h3J9kMsnudA810seup3EP1CmRBz5c7ZXD82xY2DXPRDRmG-pYReFkQFBdbVTkqFX4y-TugyBwTLOG0K-jiKLnPGSA7sYW-SG4J1CpcnWh021Y8/s1600-h/flora1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTib1TBIhrtefNYymhf5pJo6PqsPHH0h3J9kMsnudA810seup3EP1CmRBz5c7ZXD82xY2DXPRDRmG-pYReFkQFBdbVTkqFX4y-TugyBwTLOG0K-jiKLnPGSA7sYW-SG4J1CpcnWh021Y8/s320/flora1.jpg" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The wonderful story of Pepito and his family, the fabulous Firework Family, who have been asked by the mayor to construct "the very tallest, the very widest, and the very finest firework castle ever built by mortal man" for a village festival.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUsO1aKqFYBR9MBqtmo-4z7ideqi8ioKSHykdsJZWmLIHt1TVAGiINoxYnPbxZIS0ejbbdH3hhzSDpD71QvvC5Y8I27VnPbq8ErmISlQRHEGYIlWx_ResnendsxqDC-Apvp7WBP2Qd14g/s1600-h/flora9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUsO1aKqFYBR9MBqtmo-4z7ideqi8ioKSHykdsJZWmLIHt1TVAGiINoxYnPbxZIS0ejbbdH3hhzSDpD71QvvC5Y8I27VnPbq8ErmISlQRHEGYIlWx_ResnendsxqDC-Apvp7WBP2Qd14g/s320/flora9.jpg" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Of course you don't have to play. You can simply enjoy the fabulous art of <a href="http://jimflora.com/">Flora</a>. </div>Lane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526663489004913433noreply@blogger.com