What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week, Plus What I Did
Last Week, Featuring Bénédicte Guettier,
Patrick McDonnell, Daniel Salmieri, and Charlotte Voake
May 22nd, 2015 by jules
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You should see the mess he makes in the bathroom!”
— From Melissa’s Octopus and Other Unsuitable Pets
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Today over at Kirkus, I write about the neatest picture book award you’ve never heard of, the Bull-Bransom Award from the National Museum of Wildlife Art. That link is here.
Last week I wrote (here) about four new picture books — Sara Pennypacker’s Meet the Dullards, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri (Balzer & Bray, March 2015); Mac Barnett’s The Skunk, illustrated by Patrick McDonnell (Roaring Brook, April 2015); Charlotte Voake’s Melissa’s Octopus and Other Unsuitable Pets (Candlewick, April 2015); and Bénédicte Guettier’s I am the Wolf … And Here I Come! (Gecko Press, January 2015). Today, I follow up with art from each book. (Note: Sorry about the lines in the art from Guettier. Those lines indicate the gutter of the book.)
Enjoy the art …
Meet the Dullards,
illustrated by Daniel Salmieri:
All day long, the Dullards watched the paint dry.”
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secure in the knowledge that their children were perfect bores.”
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and Other Unsuitable Pets:
and he ends up downstairs by mistake.”
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illustrated by Patrick McDonnell:
And Here I Come!
I AM THE WOLF … AND HERE I COME! First American Edition published in 2015 by Gecko Press USA. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher.
MEET THE DULLARDS. Copyright © 2015 by Sara Pennypacker. Illustrations copyright © 2015 by Daniel Salmieri. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins, New York.
MELISSA’S OCTOPUS AND OTHER UNSUITABLE PETS. Copyright © 2014 by Charlotte Voake. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books, London.
THE SKUNK. Copyright © 2015 by Mac Barnett. Illustrations copyright © 2015 by Patrick McDonnell. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Roaring Brook Press, New York.
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