What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Red Nose Studio
January 18th, 2019 by jules
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about how Chris created “a shaky Elvis”)
Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got thoughts on bibliotherapy, the debut picture book from a Dutch author-illustrator named Eva Eland, and a Norwegian import (coming in March) called Angryman. The latter is about domestic violence and is unlike any picture book I’ve seen before.
That is here.
Last week, I wrote here about Jonah Winter’s Elvis Is King! (Schwartz & Wade, January 2019), illustrated by Chris Sickels, aka Red Nose Studio.
Today, I’ve got a bit of art from the book, as well as some early sketches and such from Chris. Chris gave me permission to lift these images from his blog, where he’s written a handful of posts about this book. I link to the corresponding blog post under each image below. Here’s the link to his blog, if you want to read even more about his other projects. A visit to Chris’s site is always rewarding.
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down down down in the Deep South — Tupelo, Mississippi.”
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It will be the key to his salvation.”
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ELVIS IS KING! Text copyright © 2019 by Jonah Winter. Illustrations © 2019 by Red Nose Studio. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Schwartz & Wade Books, New York. All other images reproduced by permission of Chris Sickels.
The artwork is phenomenal — intricately made sets photographed for each scene. The birthplace house looks exactly like it does in real life! The text is alright, but the book does contain a comprehensive author’s note at the end that gives greater historical context for Elvis’s rise to fame.
by Akshay Kumar March 14th, 2019 at 11:42 am