What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Rosalyn Schanzer
September 16th, 2011 by jules
This week at Kirkus, I’m discussing one of the funniest picture books I’ve seen all year, a German import from Gecko Press, titled Anton Can Do Magic. That link is here this morning.
If you missed last week’s column, I conducted a short Q & A with illustrator Amy June Bates, the Chair of the jury for the Society of Illustrator’s 2011 Original Art award. That link is here. In October, closer to the opening of the Original Art exhibit, I’ll have an interview here at 7-Imp with Rosalyn Schanzer, who won the Gold this year for her book Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem (National Geographic, September 2011). But for now, I open this post with one of the many illustrations she sent me for the interview, one moment from the book. (It’s imp-tastic, isn’t it?)
Here is a group shot of us jury members after a long (but wonderful) day of looking at over 500 picture books.
Illustration copyright © 2011 by Rosalyn Schanzer and used with permission.
Photo of 2011 Original Art jury by Laurent Linn and used with permission.
What a handsome, friendly group!
Hurray! OA is amazing, I’m using it as my reading list and hope to see the exhibit too!
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