Archive for the 'Picture Books' Category

« Previous Page — « Previous Entries
Next Entries » — Next Page »

7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #739: Featuring Blanca Gómez

h1 Sunday, April 18th, 2021



 
I’ve a review over at BookPage of Bird House (Abrams, April 2021) by author-illustrator Blanca Gómez. It is a beauty, and you can read why over there. The review is here.

Below are some spreads. A Spanish edition of the book is also being released. See here!

Read the rest of this entry �

Posted in Picture Books | 11 Comments »

A Stressful Sunday (But All’s Well That Ends Well)

h1 Thursday, April 15th, 2021


“And so it came to be that the big house and the little house lived next to each other. Every morning Little Mouse and Big Bear said ‘Good morning!’ to each other
and went to work. Little Mouse to town, and Big Bear to the forest.”
(Click spread to enlarge)


 
Let’s take a look at a Japanese picture book import, originally published in 2012. Yoshi Ueno’s The Big House and the Little House (Levin Querido), illustrated by Emiko Fujishima, arrived on U.S. shelves last month.

Read the rest of this entry �

Posted in Picture Books | No Comments »

Getting Arboreal Before Breakfast

h1 Tuesday, April 13th, 2021


“Let your roots curl,
coil in the soil to ground you.”
(Click spread to enlarge)


 
Author Maria Gianferrari and illustrator Felicita Sala would have you be a tree — and have some compelling reasons for you doing so. Be a Tree! (Abrams) is on shelves now.

Read the rest of this entry �

Posted in Picture Books | 2 Comments »

7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #738: Featuring Jon Klassen

h1 Sunday, April 11th, 2021


“SHHH, it will hear you.”
(Click spread to enlarge and read text in its entirety)


 
A turtle. An armadillo. A snake. An alien creature. And some hats, of course.

It’s my review of Jon Klassen’s newest (and very funny) book, The Rock from the Sky (Candlewick, April 2021), over at the Horn Book.

That review is here, and below are some spreads.

Enjoy!

Read the rest of this entry �

Posted in 7-Imp's 7 Kicks, Picture Books | 7 Comments »

Have You Ever Seen a Flower?

h1 Thursday, April 8th, 2021


” … seen a flower?”
(Click spread to enlarge)


 
Wanna look with me at some spreads from Shawn Harris’s Have You Ever Seen a Flower?, coming to shelves next month from Chronicle Books? It will wake you right up, this book suffused with joy and wonder. The book’s electric colors may even negate your need for coffee this morning.

Let’s take a look. …

Read the rest of this entry �

Posted in Picture Books | No Comments »

Code Breaker, Spy Hunter

h1 Tuesday, April 6th, 2021



 
If, like me, you hadn’t heard of Elizebeth Friedman, author Laurie Wallmark and illustrator Brooke Smart have got you covered in Code Breaker, Spy Hunter: How Elizebeth Friedman Changed the Course of Two World Wars (Abrams, March 2021).

Read the rest of this entry �

Posted in Nonfiction, Picture Books | 2 Comments »

7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #737: Featuring María Elena Valdez

h1 Sunday, April 4th, 2021


“Paola: She saw an insect for the first time. / She was so happy that for the entire morning / her heart didn’t stop buzzing.”
(Click spread to enlarge)


 
María José Ferrada’s Niños: Poems for the Lost Children of Chile (Eerdmans, March 2021), illustrated by María Elena Valdez and originally published in Spanish in 2019, is an experience — the kind of book you want to mark out some time for and take in slowly and reverently. It is a tribute to the thirty-four children under the age of fourteen who died or disappeared during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorial 17-year regime in Chile.

Read the rest of this entry �

Posted in 7-Imp's 7 Kicks, Picture Books, Poetry Friday | 9 Comments »

Juana Martinez-Neal on Zonia’s Rain Forest

h1 Tuesday, March 30th, 2021


“In Zonia’s rain forest, green and full of life, she visits old friends and meets new ones.
‘Good morning!’ she says one, two, three, four times.”
(Click spread to enlarge)


 
Meet Zonia. She “lives with those she loves in the rain forest, where it is always green and full of life.” The rain forest calls to her every morning, and we readers follow along as she explores, following a vivid blue butterfly all the way. This is the latest picture book from Juana Martinez-Neal, Zonia’s Rain Forest (Candlewick), publishing this week. Juana visits 7-Imp today to share some images from her trip to the Amazon rain forest and to give us a peek into the creation of these illustrations.

Read the rest of this entry �

Posted in Interviews, Picture Books | 3 Comments »

7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #736: Featuring Jason Chin

h1 Sunday, March 28th, 2021


“We are in the old Pontiac, the red paint faded by years of glinting Ohio sun,
pelting rain, and biting snow.”
(Click spread to enlarge)


 
I’ve a review over at BookPage of Andrea Wang’s beautiful Watercress (Neal Porter Books, March 2021), illustrated by Jason Chin.

I’ll send you here to read it, and below are some spreads from the book.

Read the rest of this entry �

Posted in 7-Imp's 7 Kicks, Picture Books | 9 Comments »

Journey Around the Sun:
The Story of Halley’s Comet

h1 Thursday, March 25th, 2021



 
James Gladstone’s enchanting and informative Journey Around the Sun: The Story of Halley’s Comet (Owlkids, March 2021), illustrated by Yaara Eshet, may be the first picture book you read told from the point of view of Halley’s Comet.

“I have seen your past,” the book opens. “And I will see your future, the next time I take that sunlight journey.” Halley’s Comet speaks to readers, recounting the various ways that people throughout history have understood the celestial object. Gladstone and Eshet take us from the time of Aristotle to the space age — with many stops in between.

Read the rest of this entry �

Posted in Picture Books | No Comments »

« Previous Page — « Previous Entries
Next Entries » — Next Page »