Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast

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Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got some recommended picture books, all new to shelves, for back-to-school.

That is here.

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Last week, I wrote here about Laura Vaccaro Seeger’s Blue (Neal Porter/Roaring Brook), coming to shelves this September. I’m following up today with a visit from Laura, who talks about her process, while sharing lots of art. I thank her for visiting.

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“In 2016, the European Union and Turkey decide refugees sneaking into Greece by boat from Turkey will be returned to Turkey. The Europeans promise to resettle officially registered Syrians from Turkish camps, a tiny fraction of all the refugees in Turkey.”

 
As a follow-up to my Kirkus Q&A last week with Don Brown, I’ve some art today from The Unwanted: Stories of Syrian Refugees (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 2018).

Until tomorrow. …

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“He loaded up the pumpkin and drove to town.”
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I’ve a review over at BookPage of Brian Lies’ The Rough Patch (Greenwillow, August 2018). The review is here, and Brian visits today to talk about the process behind this moving picture book. I thank him for sharing.

Let’s get right to it.

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Good morning, one and all. It’s the first Sunday of the month (August already? WHUT), and that means I have a student or newly-graduated illustrator visiting today. In this case, it’s the latter. I welcome Amber Ma today. I love to pore over her detailed, beguiling artwork, and since she tells you about it below, as well as generously shares lots of art, let’s get right to it.

Thanks again to Amber for stopping by today. …

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“Mary opens her eyes, frightened. She tries to forget what she imagined.
She tries to think up a ghost story instead. And then, with a sudden jolt of excitement, she understands. She had already found her ghost story! The monster coming to life. That is the story she will write. Finally, she has her idea. …”
— From Linda Bailey’s Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein,
illustrated by Júlia Sardà
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“She trembled as she imagined a hand — huge, gray, and twisted —
appearing through the bed curtains. She saw the curtains part.
The creature stared down at her with bulging yellow eyes.
What did it want from her?!”
— From Lynn Fulton’s She Made a Monster,
illustrated by Felicita Sala
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Over at Kirkus today, I write about Laura Vaccaro Seeger’s newest picture book, Blue.

That is here.

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Last week, I wrote here about Linda Bailey’s Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein, illustrated by Júlia Sardà (Tundra, August 2018), as well as Lynn Fulton’s She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein, illustrated by Felicita Sala (Knopf, September 2018). Today I’m following up with art from each book.

Enjoy!

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“[V]isiting Greece underscored the human scale of the tragedy. It was happening to ordinary men, women, and children, no different than my family and neighbors. The visit left me determined to tell the refugees’ story with both accuracy and sympathy. They don’t deserve less.”

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Over at Kirkus today, I talk with author-illustrator Don Brown about his latest graphic novel, The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees.

That is here, and next week here at 7-Imp, I’ll follow up with some more images from the book.

Until tomorrow …