Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast

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 […]

“…Some blew / To the ground, / One lit on a rose, /And a big one burst / On the kitten’s nose.”— From Miriam Clark Potter’s The Golden Book of Little Verses,originally published in 1953(Click to enlarge) This morning at Kirkus, I write about a lovely picture book that popped up and surprised me, Elin […]

“The white egret / marks time / on / one / leg / then / the / other.”(Click to enlarge spread; photograph of egret is by Cheryl Molennor)   This morning over at Kirkus, I’ve got a Q&A with author, professor, and blogger Philip Nel, and I ask him about his latest book, Crockett Johnson […]

“Liam smiled and whispered, ‘YES.’ Off he hopped, delivering eggs.”(Click to enlarge) I’m happy to have Piggy Bunny, the star of this book (Feiwel and Friends, February 2012), visiting today — and his creators, author Rachel Vail and “authorstrator” Jeremy Tankard. (Jeremy was the first-EVER subject of my 7-Imp breakfast interviews years ago.) So, I’m […]

I initially created this interview format, the Seven Questions Over Breakfast one, for brand-new illustrators — so that my readers and I can meet up-and-coming artists. Turns out I use it for more experienced authors and artists as well, ’cause the ready-made format, given my busy schedule, makes it, quite simply, easier to post any […]

Here’s another quick post before breakfast about a 2011 title that caught my eye, yet I never quite got around to posting about it last year. Anyone else out there see Patricia Intriago’s Dot? It was released by Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux in August. This is Intriago’s first picture book; she’s the principal […]

“When a bird says TWEET, does he really mean SWEET?”(Click to enlarge spread) Last Fall, I did a small handful of posts in which I highlighted some new picture books for the wee’est of readers, and I never quite finished. One of those books (and more are to come, as I will get to them, […]

“And they actually began dancing Sir Roger de Coverly there on the floor of the wagon — hands across, back-to-back, down-the-middle and all the rest. They began — but in half a minute they were all doing something else again: jumping on and off the cigar boxes, nibbling at the sacks, sliding down the treacle […]

Dude. I have to say I’ve wanted to interview award-winning author/illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi for yeeeeears now. I like his books; I really like his art; and I like it pretty much whenever he speaks. (Really, have you explored yet the videos at his web site? Big fun.) So, I’m happy he’s made it by this […]

I wish I could take credit for being the photographer of this photo of author Liz Garton Scanlon and author/illustrator Marla Frazee, because then that would mean I’d been in Malibu, where this picture was taken in November of last year. Alas, it was not I. But I am here this morning, sharing a cyber-breakfast […]