Hello kids! Sorry I've been off so long, but my mother has been ill and came to live with us for a month or so. She's on the mend and home now, so I'm able to steal a few moments for me. It's been many weeks of reflection and soul searching, and but it's nice to have my office all to myself again.
That said, just wanted to let you know about a few things. Next week I'm going to be hosting some guest posts from my friend
Thingummery on a handful of really rad kids books she's found recently in her estate sale travels. Plus, I'll be back more regularly with awesome things like the above end papers from Hugh Lofting's
Doctor Doolittle in the Moon. Fabulous! Drawn & Quarterly has a new Astrid Lindgren
reprint out,
Pippi Fixes Everything. Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story is playing
in NYC this weekend.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is out next weekend which is based (VERY) loosely on the brilliant followup to the actual book
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs called
Pickles to Pittsburgh.
And it's official, after all the books I've read to and supplied to my son, all he wants to do is draw and read graphic novels. My greatest dream and worst nightmare combined into one. Maybe Stephen King will someday show him that it's not necessary that all novels be read aloud by Mommy. :)
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3 comments:
My son loves comic books too, mostly stuff like Garfield, far side, calvin and hobbes...Not super hero stuff. He is an emerging artist, and I think that as long as he is reading, Im good with that! Cant wait to see the new collection of books you will blog about!
Hello, so glad you´re back!!! I missed your blog, because I normally step by every day. I have the house full of the most wonderful old and new childrens books and my six year old son is so much into marvel superheros and tv. He has never been that interessted in the things i read to him - except Enid Blyton books. And although I´m an illustrator myself he hates painting pictures. But it`s ok with me - you cannot force your kids to love the things that you do. Once again - glad you´re back. If you find the time take a look at the pictures in my german childrens book blog http://daslasmama.blogspot.de
Greetings from Germany
Bea
Ooh I'm excited about the new Pippi book!!
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