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when she secretly listened to the crew singing songs late at night.”<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n
Here in Nashville this weekend, we are celebrating the Southern Festival of Books<\/a><\/strong>, and I will be hosting the session this afternoon for author\/illustrators Matt Phelan<\/a><\/strong> and Bob Shea<\/a><\/strong> (and, as mentioned, get to meet up with them before-hand for a cup ‘o’ joe). Opening this post is an image from one of Bob Shea’s newest picture books, Dinosaur vs. the Library<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Hyperion, September 2011); the cover and more images are below, as well as images from another of his new titles, which I haven’t seen yet but hope to today, called I’m a Shark<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (Balzer + Bray, May 2011). And below Bob’s dinosaur up there is an image from the Nellie-Bly portion of Matt Phelan’s newest graphic novel, called Around the World<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, published by Candlewick this month. I’ve got more art below from that as well. <\/p>\n If you’re not familiar with Bob’s books, you should run to the nearest library or bookstore and fix that. He’s illustrated many picture books others have written, and he’s both written and illustrated a handful of them himself. If you’re not familiar with his “Dinosaur vs. …” books, then I recommend you see his rendition of Dinosaur vs. the Potty<\/a><\/em><\/strong> here at the Texas Book Festival in 2010, I think it was, and also his mock Dinosaur vs. Writing Kids’ Books<\/em> had me SNORT-LAUGHING (and has me all the more eager to hear him speak today):<\/p>\n <\/p>\nYou know, I’m all the time here at 7-Imp having pretend breakfasts with authors and illustrators, when they’re really just cyber (the breakfasts, that is, not the people), but this morning I will have actual<\/em> breakfast with the two author\/illustrators featured here today. Or at least coffee. And I’m excited to meet them. <\/p>\n