children's books | children's books
Jan.28.2012
When I am weary of the daily news or non-stop work, I take my comfort with children’s books. My favorite stories involve young heroes and heroines who, using their sharp wits, pure hearts and magic, confront bad-guy adults bent on mayhem. So when, recently, I had completed a large work of my own...
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Oct.17.2011
What do you do if you’re transported to a mystical room brimming with colorful animals, curious plants and flying books? And what if you hear voices coming from inside an ancient wardrobe in this peculiar and puzzling place?
Should you run? Hide?
Absolutely, positively not!
If you are Mikolay...
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Oct.11.2011
The Adventures of Zeppi: New Friends (book 1)
By C.K. Omillin
Blurb.com
Children’s picture book, 24 pages, $15.55
www.omillinplanet.com
In the middle of the night, a mysterious red truck races down Happy Town. Its cargo? Cages filled with penguins on their way to be shipped to...
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Sep.20.2011
My three-year-old has been going through a phase of refusing to go to nursery school, after being thrilled with it for a month. She cried in school for a week, so her teacher invited me to visit for a day. After observing her in her classroom, I have worked out that her issues probably have to do...
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Aug.03.2011
Dare to follow your dreams!
Dare to be yourself!
Dare to be free!
This is the premise of Liesel Soley's inspiring children's picture book, Can You Be an Artist?
Freddie, Honey and Bae are so different culturally speaking, yet they're so alike at the same time. They all have one thing in...
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Aug.01.2011
If you have children or are even remotely clued in to the kidlitosphere, chances are you’ve run across Dan Santat’s work. As an illustrator, he’s provided the art for a slew of young readers’ faves, including Lisa Yee’s Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic, 2009) and Mac...
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Jul.21.2011
FORGET SORROW exhibit ends August 13, 201
I passed out in the middle of the night half a month before the opening of this show. I had internal bleeding that left me with merely one-third of my blood volume. My doctor friend who works at the Stanford VA told me he'd never seen anyone's...
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Jul.20.2011
Fun review of Raggin' Jazzin' Rockin': A History of American Musical Instrument Makers from The Reading Tub—two thumbs-up from big kid and little kid!
Thanks, guys!
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Mar.27.2011
She was ten-years-old when we first met, and I was about a year younger. It didn't matter that I was a Chinese-American girl from the suburbs of Los Angeles and that Katie John was a white girl from Barton's Bluff, Missouri. We were soul mates, two misunderstood tomboys trying to navigate...
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Mar.03.2011
The summer I turned eleven we moved to Oak Tree Cottage on the edge of Ashdown Forest, in East Sussex. My parents chose this place to settle for several reasons, but for me the most important reason was that it was where A.A. Milne wrote Winnie the Pooh, and knowing that Christopher Robin (then...
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