What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Maira Kalman
May 30th, 2014 by jules
Today over at Kirkus, I weigh in on the sounds of summer. That link is here.
Last week, I wrote about Maira Kalman’s picture book biography of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything (Nancy Paulsen Books, January 2014). That link is here, and I’m following up today with some art from the book.
Enjoy.
He loved flowers growing and fish in the pond.
Another way of saying that is he loved flora and fauna.”
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It was called The Louisiana Purchase. He sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on an expedition to explore the land from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
They traveled through wild forests and rivers and mountains for three years.
Such brave men. They met many Native American tribespeople, including Sacagawea. She was only a teenager, but she helped guide them.”
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THOMAS JEFFERSON: LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF EVERYTHING. Copyright © 2014 by Maira Kalman. Published by Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group, New York. Spreads reproduced by permission of the publisher.
“This monumental man had monumental flaws.”
Is it terrible of me to be grateful this bit is in the book??? Because, HELLO, the hypocrisy of the man. Too many picture books butter over these things, so as to keep the façade shiny and happy. My respect for this author goes higher…
by tanita May 30th, 2014 at 9:51 amYes, Tanita, as I wrote about over at Kirkus, the writing, in particular, here is remarkable and honest, and I really like this book.
As she notes in the book, “Jefferson may have been a kind master, but it was still a horror.”
by jules May 30th, 2014 at 11:44 am