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Original Technorati articles tagged “picture book”

• in Family
  KidLit: Easing the Pain of Deployment, Lily Hates Goodbyes
  LILY HATES GOODBYES is a storybook especially for young military children.
  by missbobetier / on Mar 31, 2011
• in Family
  KidLit: Hannah: Gran’s Treasure Box by Heather Rhodes, illustrated by Burcu Arat Sup
  Wouldn’t you like to stop having nightmares? Talk to your grandmother--unless she's causing them.
  by missbobetier / on Feb 12, 2011
• in Family
  KidLit: The Adventures of Ginger and Rusty Fox by Tim Ostermeyer
  Enter the world of Ginger and Rusty Fox, two kits with a lot to learn.
  by missbobetier / on Nov 18, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “picture book”

 

• Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu

  
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  From the time he was a young boy and saw his first baseball game, Kenochi "Zeni" Zenimura wanted to play baseball - he wanted that more than anything.  And he was well on his way towards living his dream when he was old enough, managing local teams and playing with the Fresno Nisei League and the Fresno Twilight ...
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• A Green Turtle & A Boy – Kazuo Oga Art Book Review

  
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  A Green Turtle & A Boy (Umigame To Shonen) is a picture book/short novel illustrated by famed Ghibli background artist Kazuo Oga ( read more about his amazing 2007 background art exhibition ) and written by Japanese novelist Akiyuki Nosaka. Many of Nosaka-san’s novels have been adapted into successful films, ...
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• Kid Konnection: My Mom is the Best Circus & Giveaway

  
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  Every Saturday, I host a feature called Kid Konnection -- a regular weekend feature about anything related to childrens ...
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• if you want to see a whale

  
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  words by julie foglianopictures by erin e. stead.roaring brook press 2013a very old school picture bookpoetic in word and imagenow this is what i’m talking about.the title is the premisea set of instructions for what you need to doin order to see a whaleit starts with a windowand quickly moves to a landscapeof the ...
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• Book Review: The Scar by Charlotte Moundlic

  
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  The Scar by Charlotte Moundlic and Illustrated by Olivier Tallec Published by Candlewick Press Pages: 32 Ages: 5 and up. Buy It: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Powell’s Books | Indiebound | Book Depository | ISBN/ISBN-13: 0763653411 / 9780763653415 Publishers Summary : When the boy in ...
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• Clever Picture Books That Captivate

  
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  All three of my kids, ages 13, 11 and 8, delighted in this clever picture book with a book-within-a-book-within-a-book format. I figured if this picture book could captivate a teenager, it has a lock... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award and SingTel Asian Picture Book Award Shortlists Announced!

  
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  ASIAN FESTIVAL OF CHILDREN’S CONTENT ANNOUNCES TWO MAJOR AWARDS Press release: Announcement of Shortlists of Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award 2013 and SingTel Asian Picture Book Award 2013 Singapore, 25 April 2013 – At the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC ) 2013 Press Conference , held ...
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• Spier and Anno

  
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  As a child I loved to pour over detailed illustrations in books for hours. Oh, how I wish I could have had books by Peter Spier or Mitsumasa Anno to pour over!! What worlds I could have lost myself in! We have a few of Spier’s books: People (every child should own this one—a phenomenal celebration of the ...
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• Book Review: I Scream, Ice Cream by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Serge Bloch

  
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  You know those groups of words that sound the same but mean something different? Words like “I scream” and “ice cream”? They are called wordles, and you and your child can have lots of fun reading them in a new picture book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Serge Bloch. I Scream, Ice Cream!: A Book of Wordles ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book Review: Bella Saves the Beach by Nancy Stewart

  
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  A true story of try and try again can be found in Bella Saves the Beach by award-winning children’s author, Nancy Stewart. Bella is sad when her beloved beach is loaded with trash. But with her best friend Britt away on vacation, … Continue reading →
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• My Brothers Book: Review Haiku

  
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  On the first anniversary of his death, a marvel for the eyes. My Brothers Book  by Maurice Sendak. Harper, 2013, 32 pages.
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• The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard, by Gregory Rogers, for Timeslip Tuesday

  
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  I am very sad about the recent, and horribly untimely, death of Australian writer and illustrator Gregory Rogers .  Ive already featured one of his wordless time-travel picture books ( The Hero of Little Street ), a book I liked well enough, but today Im posting about the book I think is his masterpiece, one that is ...
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• Get Sucked into THE GREAT LOLLIPOP CAPER by Dan Krall (plus a giveaway!)

  
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  Dan Krall is genius. I mean, he created a book about lollipops! What kid doesn’t love lollipops?! And there’s something for us adults, too. Capers! Ya know, the salty little fellas that go with lox and a nice schmear (that’s NY-talk for cream cheese). Delish (more NY-talk). I can’t decide which I like more. ...
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• Where art tells the story in "Bill the Boy Wonder"

  
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  One of my last steps in writing a picture book is to go through and pinpoint areas where I can cut text. Yes, that is a writing step. Because I’m not cutting meaning . I’m merely eliminating redundancy in instances where the art can show rather than the words tell. Here are examples from Bill the Boy ...
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• BALL

  
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  BALL, by Mary Sullivan ( Houghton Mifflin 2013)(ages 3+).  In this nearly-wordless picture book, Dog is obsessed with playing fetch and Girl is happy to oblige.  When Girl has to go to school, though, whats a dog to do? BALL is hilarious fun, terrifically capturing every dogs biggest obsession (after food and ...
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• Fun With Dictionaries

  
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  Advice to Little Girls by Mark Twain illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky Enchanted Lion Books, 2013 review copy provided by the publisher I glanced at this book when it came in the mail, but what really caught my attention was this article on Brain Pickings that told how this book came to be published in the United ...
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• Fonts

  
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  Something I didn’t have a problem with when I was young were the ‘funny fonts’ and the pretend handwriting in print. I read comics every week and managed just fine. But these days I find I just won’t read the books I receive that don’t come with ordinary print. Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid is an example. I no ...
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• Putting your house in order

  
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  What do five-year-olds read? And does it matter if they play football? We’ve recently had cause to use the services of a joiner. He looks about 25 (and I know I am being ageist), but I was delighted to hear he has not only a wife, but two small children. I have taken to preying on people with young ones. As usual ...
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• Take a Vacation…with PENGUIN ON VACATION (and get a beach ball, too)

  
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  It’s finally May—the flowers are pushing through the dirt, the sun is ablaze with warm promises…and, well, it’s time to take a break! I thought I’d consult with someone who knows vacationing very well. No, not my Aunt Myrna, the Long Island travel agent queen. Salina Yoon’s Penguin! He’s a cute, chubby ...
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• Someday by Eileen Spinelli, Illustrated by Rosie Winstead

  
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  *Picture book, contemporary, for preschoolers through second graders *Young girl as main character *Rating: I loved this book, Someday by Eileen Spinelli. It’s clever and cute and full of imagination. Illustrations by Rosie Winstead are also super cute, as you can tell by the cover! Short, short summary: The ...
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