Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast

  “until …”(Click to enlarge spread)   I’m taking a moment this morning to highlight one more 2016 picture book, Marsha Diane Arnold’s Waiting for Snow (Houghton Mifflin, November 2016), illustrated by Renata Liwska. (This title is fitting, given we get very little snow here in the South.) Marsha visits today to talk about this […]

“Inside the airport you stand in lines.You stand in lines to get your ticket. You stand in lines to check your bags.There are lines for the restrooms. There are lines to go through security.”(Click to enlarge spread)   Arriving just last month (is it already June?) on bookshelves was Lisa Brown’s newest picture book, The […]

It’s time to look back, dear Imps, on what happened at 7-Imp during 2012 and look at who graced the site with their presence—all with my buddy here, Alfred—simply because I am a hopeless nerd, who enjoys recaps. As I’ve said during the past couple of years, including during 2011’s recap, this is fun to […]

The Buskers The best thing that came out of writing about Elin Kelsey’s You Are Stardust, illustrated by Soyeon Kim, which I did here at 7-Imp in September, was that I met Jayme McGowan. (Well, I cyber-met her, though I wish I could say we had actual coffee together.) She contacted me after reading that […]

Today at the Kirkus Book Blog Network, I chat with author/illustrator Matthew Cordell about his brand-new picture book, hello! hello! That link is here, and if you like this book as much as I do, come back next week for even more from Matt, including art, early studies, and jacket sketches. Tomorrow morning, I’ll have […]

I really don’t want to run my mouth too much, honestly, about today’s featured title, Olivier Tallec’s Waterloo & Trafalgar. And that’s because the book itself doesn’t come out until late next month, and I don’t want to ruin the reading experience for you. I’ll say this much, though: Tallec was born in France and […]

(Do yourself a favor and click to enlarge this spread) Hello, dear Imps. I’m busy this week working on my part of this presentation, which will be in Knoxville this Friday. I will be speaking in the morning to a group of librarians and teachers about picture books, my favorite titles thus far in 2012. […]

“Just remember: Dragons hate spicy salsa.Before you host your taco party with dragons, get rid of all the spicy salsa.In fact, bury the spicy salsa in the backyard so the dragons can’t find it.”(Click to enlarge spread) Do you know those really funny picture books that don’t get in the way of their own humor, […]

(Click to enlarge) Next to author/illustrator Matthew Cordell, Tammi Sauer may very well be the busiest picture book author of 2012. I wanted to chat with the very punny Tammi here at 7-Imp about her upcoming books—she sees five of her picture books released this year—and then she up and announced she was doing one […]

This isn’t the first time illustrator Erin Stead has visited 7-Imp. About a year prior to the release of her Caldecott-winning A Sick Day for Amos McGree, written by Philip C. Stead (who happens to be her husband), she visited to share some early art and the tools she used to make the illustrations for […]