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Blog: The Children's Book Review (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Trish Cooke is the award-winning author of such acclaimed and enduring picture books as Full, Full, Full of Love and So Much!, which was recently included in UK book list ‘The 50 Best Culturally Diverse Children’s Books‘. … Continue reading ...
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Not everyone may have kids, but all of us unavoidably were kids, once. A fair chunk of my childhood centered around books; reading them and collecting them. Certain stories only ever experienced one reading over 30 years ago, but for reasons inexplicable, remain unforgettably potent and as vivid to me as if I’d read them […]
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It's been 25 years since the publication of We're Going On A Bear Hunt
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Within just a few hours of arriving back in the UK last week I was off to the annual conference organised by The Federation of Children’s Book Groups (FCBG). The FCBG is a UK charity which works both locally and nationally to promote reading for pleasure amongst children.
Local groups run meetings for both adults and children interested in children’s books, author visits, and book themed activities. On a national level, the FCBG organises the Red House Children’s Book Award, promotes National Share a Story Month, and National Non-Fiction Day, and hosts an annual conference packed with author, illustrator and publisher talks amongst other things.
Having recently joined the National Executive of the FCBG this was my first time at conference. I had a tremendous, inspirational time, and here’s a flavour of who I saw and what I got up to:
Friday night saw a special party to celebrate 25 years of Winnie the Witch. Winnie’s illustrator, Korky Paul, gave a great talk about his work (revealing the reason behind Winnie’s crumpled hat). He also showed us his stripy socks which was a particular delight to me as last time I met him we talked about underpants.
Saturday morning kicked off in the most fantastic fashion, with Eileen Browne (author and illustrator of Handa’s Hen amongst many others) interviewing Axel Scheffler. Axel was quiet, unassuming and charming.
Axel revealed that the Gruffalo we now know and love started life as something rather more menacing – I hope you can see the grumpier, meaner Gruffalo in the photo below. Later he also revealed that the BBC are currently working on an animation of Room on the Broom for Christmas 2012.
First thing Sunday morning Sally Gardner gave an passionate talk about her background and her life with dyslexia. Sally did not learn to read until she was 14, and by this time she had been labelled as “unteachable”. Her’s is a remarkable life story, almost impossible to believe if you have read I, Coriander, a book set partly in 17th-century London and partly in a magical fairy world, which is both beautiful and lyrical, and a book I think many 8-12 year old (girls) would adore as much as
Blog: Picture Books & Pirouettes (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I still remember sitting in a big circle at summer camp, clapping one hand and then the other against my thighs and stamping my feet against the floor as our fearless leader took us on an adventurous bear hunt when I was a kid. Through fields of grass, thick mud, and dark forests we went, searching far and wide for that one elusive bear. Does this sound familiar to you, too?
I can't remember the exact words to the game I played, and I'm sure there are many versions. Here's a very expressive Michael Rosen reciting his version--the version that he created for the book. You can see from the video that the text of the book is full of rhythm and fun sounds that could easily inspire movement, as they do for Rosen himself.
Although the words to the book are what inspire the movement for me, the book wouldn't be what it is without the beautiful drawings of Helen Oxenbury. She was able to depict the characters in the book any which way she wanted, and she chose to draw them as five members of a family. I recently found out that the five characters are actually siblings, but many readers think they are a father and his four children. Either way, I think this depiction is especially nice for young children, who will likely be "reading" this book alongside other family members of their own.
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Blog: The Art of Children's Picture Books (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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More with Helen Oxenbury here: www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/oxenbury
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not really. They were at The Bank Street Center for Children's Literature
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Earlier this week, two titans of children’s picture books, author Mem Fox and author/illustrator Helen Oxenbury, were in town for a special appearance to discuss the importance of reading aloud to your children and to celebrate the publication of their best-selling new book, Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes.
The Reading Connection, one of my favorite local nonprofits, sponsored the wonderful evening at the Washington Post, which included a book signing afterwards.
Since both of these lovely authors are based overseas, this was truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see them speaking and signing together. They regaled the capacity crowd with wonderful stories of their collaboration and how the book came to be under the gentle guidance of former Harcourt editor, Allyn Johnston (who now has her own imprint with Simon & Schuster). Their warmth, humor, and obvious love and respect for both children and the craft of writing and illustrating made for a truly memorable evening!
For more information about this terrific artistic collaboration, check out the recent Publishers Weekly interview with the authors.
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Thank you for that lovely retrospective of Oxenbury and Burningham's work. If the world of picture books had royalty, they would be King and Queen!