The Many Sides of Santa
and Some Art from Chuck Groenink

h1 December 18th, 2014 by jules



 

Last week at Kirkus, I chatted here with children’s book author and poet Bob Raczka, so today I’m following up with some of Chuck Groenink’s illustrations from Raczka’s Santa Clauses: Short Poems from the North Pole, released by Carolrhoda Books in September. Groenink, as I mentioned in the column last week, is from the Netherlands but now lives in New York. I highly recommend exploring the art at his site or even his tumblr. If you subscribe to the Horn Book, you’ll recognize him from the cover art of the current issue.

I’m tellin’ you what. We see lots of new holiday picture books every year, many easily forgettable, but I really like this one. I’d love to see a 2015 7-Imp interview with Groenink so that we can see way more art from him. Don’t you agree?

Enjoy the art.


“…Wishes blowing in / from my overfilled mailbox— / December’s first storm …”
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“…The north wind and I / whistling to ‘Let It Snow!’ / on the radio.”
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(Click to see spread in its entirety)


 



 

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SANTA CLAUSES: SHORT POEMS FROM THE NORTH POLE. Copyright © 2014 by Bob Raczka. Illustrations copyright © 2014 by Chuck Groenink and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Carolrhoda Books.





One comment to “The Many Sides of Santa
and Some Art from Chuck Groenink”

  1. I’d love to see an interview with him and more art, most definitely! Going out to look for this one today, thanks. 🙂


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