Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
Look here. It’s Lyle. And he’s fifty years old now. (He can kick, he can shimmy … oh wait, it’s another annoying Saturday Night Live reference. I have one of those for everything in life.) First off, for anyone who may be reading who is not a fellow picture book junkie, here’s a Lyle 101: […]
Thursday, December 29th, 2011
It’s that time of year, dear readers. It’s when I like to look back on what happened at 7-Imp during the year and look at who graced the site with their presence—all with my buddy here, Alfred—because evidently I am slightly to moderately screwy in the head. (It’s taken me over a week just to […]
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
“‘I could read you a bedtime story,’ she said. ‘I’ll read to myself,’ I said. I got a book, the first book I saw, and climbed with it into my bed. It was a very big book. I opened it and started to read. That very big book had very long words that I didn’t […]
Monday, October 25th, 2010
Just a quick note to say that I’m over at author/illustrator Sergio Ruzzier’s picture book blog, Hey, Rabbit!, this morning with my top-ten favorite picture books. Sergio has asked folks to weigh in—everyone from authors, illustrators, bloggers, librarians, art directors, agents, and more—and I love this new series of his. For a picture-book lover like […]
Sunday, October 24th, 2010
(Click to enlarge.) I have so many picture books I want to post about here lately and not enough hours in the day. And I’m sitting on lots of art and several interviews and lots of features and such, but I simply have to post about Laurie Keller’s newest title today in celebration of the […]
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Early this year, I did a 2008 7-Imp retrospective post — merely because, evidently, I’m crazy. (These things take a bit of time to compose.) I decided this week to write what you see here, yet another retrospective post — this one for 2009, of course. I don’t know why I do this. I find […]
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
“Princess Hyacinth floated. Unless she was attached to something, or weighted down, she just floated—up, up, up.”(Click to enlarge.) You all know I like to shine the spotlight on up-and-coming illustrators here at 7-Imp, but I also like to keep up with some of my favorites. So, I went asking for some spreads from new […]
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
“We kids had done it! All of Boston cheered.”(Click to enlarge this image — and all of Lita’s images below.) Jules: Welcome to 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks, our weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week, whether book-related or […]
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
I really wanted to wrap up this picture-book-round-up-of-sidekicks post earlier (here are parts one and two), but better late than never. Let’s get right to it . . . Oh, but first: A reminder that the list of final nominations for the Fiction Picture Books category (for which I’m organizer) of the Cybils 2007 is […]
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Here is the Robert’s Snow illustrator-and-snowflake feature schedule for Sunday, October 21. Featured here is Peter McCarty’s 2005 snowflake, “Blue Mood,” rendered in ink. Here’s a note-from-the-artist that went with the snowflake: “I have been known for a soft style. I enjoyed doing the snowflake because it helped me to open up a bit. I […]
