Celebrating the Holidays with Art from
Helen Cann, Dave Horowitz, and LeUyen Pham
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To light the dark road for the man passing by, / It’s Honeyky Hanukah time.”
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Since I wrote here last week at Kirkus about some of my favorite new holiday picture books, I’m celebrating today with some art from each book — and LeUyen Pham is sharing early sketches from her book.
Here’s what you’ll see: Art from LeUyen’s The Twelve Days of Christmas (Doubleday, September 2014); art by Helen Cann, who illustrated Manger (Eerdmans, September 2014) with poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins; and art from Woody Guthrie’s Honeyky Hanukah (Doubleday, September 2014), illustrated by Dave Horowitz.
P.S. Wanna hear the Klezmatics sing Woody’s “Honeyky Hanukah”? It’s here.
Enjoy the art!
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This box for Mother and this box for Dad, /
For sister and brother, nice ribbons I’ll tie, / It’s Honeyky Hanukah time.”
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(early sketches, followed by final art):
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12 drummers drumming …”
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HONEYKY HANUKAH. Text copyright © 2003 by Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. Illustrations © 2014 by Dave Horowitz. Published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers, New York. Illustrations reproduced by permission of Dave Horowitz.
MANGER. Illustrations © 2014 by Helen Cann and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Michigan.
THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS. Illustrations © 2014 by LeUyen Pham. Illustrations reproduced by permission of LeUyen and the publisher, Doubleday Books for Young Readers, New York. Sketches reproduced by permission of LeUyen.