What I’m Up To at Kirkus This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Eva Eriksson
February 22nd, 2013 by jules
Yesterday over at Kirkus, I chatted briefly with author/illustrator Sergio Ruzzier about his two new picture books and what’s next for him. That is here, and next week here at 7-Imp, I’ll have art and early sketches from each book.
Today, I’ve got some thoughts on a new historical fiction picture book, Deborah Hopkinson’s Knit Your Bit: A World War I Story, illustrated by Steven Guarnaccia. That link is here.
Pictured here today are illustrations from Swedish illustrator Eva Eriksson from Rose Lagercrantz’s My Happy Life (Lagercrantz is also Swedish), a chapter book release from Gecko Press, a New Zealand-based publisher of English versions of award-winning international children’s books. Originally published in Sweden in 2010, this book was released here in the U.S. last month. I wrote about it here last week at Kirkus and am following up this week with a bit of art from Eriksson.
Enjoy.
She was just watching, too.”
They played on them through all the other recesses, too.”
sun and rain, thick and thin.”
Ella didn’t answer.”
she started to cry, too. She cried and cried. But what could she do?”
MY HAPPY LIFE. First American edition copyright © 2013 by Gecko Press. Illustrations used with permission of the publisher.
When they both fall out on their desks is so poignant and sweet. And when they’re mad – they look REALLY grumpy. But so hilarious!
This book is kind of the essence of …childhood. And the illustration on the cover shows it – their colors pop, against the drab background of the rest of the world. I love it.
Love the simplistic language and the way it works together with the illustrations. It tells a really powerful story!