What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Chris Van Dusen

and they yanked and they tugged.”(Click to enlarge spread)
This morning over at Kirkus, I have a bit of a Shel Silverstein appreciation. That is here.
Last week, I wrote here about Mac Barnett’s newest picture book, President Taft Is Stuck in the Bath (Candlewick, March 2014), illustrated by Chris Van Dusen. As a follow-up today, I have two spreads.
Until Sunday …
PRESIDENT TAFT IS STUCK IN THE BATH. Text copyright © 2014 by Mac Barnett. Illustrations copyright © 2014 by Chris Van Dusen. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.
[…] about nonfiction picture books and why they often seem to fall flat. Mac was at the time working on President Taft is Stuck in the Bath, and I told him my con-artist idea from back in grad school. He told me I had to make it. I said, […]