Showing posts with label Picture Book Blogs of Note. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Picture Book Blogs of Note. Show all posts

Friday, July 13, 2012

commonplace language, startling power


“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.”  ― Raymond Carver


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I've stumbled upon another awesomely amazing blog: Kimberly Lynn! She's got lotsa pictures, information, insight, links and . . . well, i'm still working my way through the archives. Stop in and check it out.


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picture book news:


from publisher's weekly
CafePress Partners with Penguin Young Readers Group



and from licensing biz: 
Angelina Ballerina UK 'mousical' confirmed


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Candlewick's 'We Believe in Picture Books' (which i discovered via Kimberly, thank you!) . . . 365 days, 365 stories, 365 videos! . . . starting in August. I can't wait . . . but it gets better . . . you can submit your own video! how cool is that. check out the submission guidelines.