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In many parts of the US, it is still winter. And prime snowman building season.
Frosty the Snowman, illustrated by
Wade Zahares with a musical CD by Kenny Loggins is honestly just year-round fun.
I'm lucky enough to know Wade and to have seen some of these amazing pastel paintings in person - note: they are BIG! He has a very unique approach to perspective and high-contrast color palettes that make his work instantly recognizable. Frosty glows almost as much as a real, crisp winter day - magically.
This is my absolute favorite spread in the book. It's a stellar point of view and captures that chase with all the fun intended. The Kenny Loggins version is upbeat but not frenetic - and there are a few other bonus tracks that you'll find your kids popping in on their own. You can find links to many videos of Kenny performing on the Facebook page,
here.
NOTE TO SELF: WHEN IS CHRISTMAS NOT CHRISTMAS? WHEN IT'S NOT "PC"
Once again as has occurred in the past, Christmas has become a politically un-acceptable word.
The latest is a move by an Ottawa, Canada, elementary school's attempt to remove the word "Christmas" from the song, "Silver Bells" in their annual Christmas concert
Gimme a break!
The move has ignited a controversy that has spread across the country and probably across North America and beyond. Instead, "Frosty the Snowman" replaced "Silver Bells" sung by Grade 2 and Grade 3 students attending Elmdale Public School.
"It was a choice by the choir," said Ottawa-Carleton District School Board spokeswoman Sharlene Hunter. "The teachers are visibly and emotionally upset and don't feel they can conduct that song to the best of their ability."
Elmdale has been inundated with telephone calls and emails after the story broke about teachers at the school changing the word Christmas and replacing it with "festive" in the Christmas carol, "Silver Bells." As in: "silver bells...silver bells...it's festive time in the city..."
Ridiculous!
It's akin to the story where Australian Santas were told not to use the traditional "ho-ho-ho" laugh and use "ha-ha-ha" instead, since it was deemed offensive to women.
It makes one wonder which songs will be deemed un-politically correct in the future. Will radio stations have to bleep out unacceptable words?
"It's beginning to look a lot like festive... Everywhere you go..." or "We wish you a merry festive..."
And a Merry Christmas...um - Festive - whatever, to you too!
One of my all time favorite online haunts...Oilily. Check out the Open Studio section. They always have the most fascinating designs, designers, artists, website and links. This time around the artist highlighted there is Linn Olfosdotter...very funky illustrations...offbeat . There is also a story created by the Oilily team. My favorite part of it is the way they've created the pages in the book to be able to be turned or flipped as they say. They've always got cutting edge designers, illustrators and artists involved in their site and clothing. There are also postcards you can send to folks online with their designs on them.
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Linn Olfosdotter's work is funky indeed. It almost flows like stream of conciousness prose. And the Oilily site is really dreamy. The graphics are captivating. They make me wish the snow would melt and let us see all those daffodils just waiting in line to spring up.