Thursday, December 30, 2010
Best Kids’ Picture Books, 2010
List and slideshow from the The Children’s Book Review
Top Ten Picture Books
- Big Red Lollipop by Rukhsana Khan, illustration by Sophie Blackall
- Shadow by Suzy Lee
- Mad At Mommy by Komako Sakai
- My Garden by Kevin Henkes
- The Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood, illustration by Renata Liwska
- Art & Max by David Wiesner
- Bunny Days by Tao Nyeu
- We Planted a Tree by Diane Muldrow, illustration by Bob Staake
- I Know Here by Laurel Croza -- illustration by Matt James
- All the Things I Love About You by Leuyen Pham
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Charley Harper's
Peekaboo Forest
interactive illustrations in an app created for kids
Created by Night & Day Studios, the app—available for the iPhone and the Android—continues their series, which began with Peekaboo Barn and was followed by Peekaboo Wild. A fourth application called Peekaboo Fridge, currently in production, will feature the artwork of Richard Scarry, and another called "Tree of Life" and also featuring Charley Harper's imagery is also in the works. Peekaboo Forest sells for $2 from iTunes
Friday, December 24, 2010
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Monday, December 20, 2010
via grain edit: Jingle Bells illustrated by J.P. Miller
"Every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart." Ebenezer Scrooge
Sunday, December 19, 2010
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
i was inspired by this poster. Check it out:
http://johncoulter.blogspot.com/2009/10/terrible-yellow-eyes.html
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
This was one of my father’s cards. He designed this with colored tissue paper, I believe. This was one of his favorite ways of designing.
My father, Walter Erhard also designed 50% of all Vera scarves and textiles, though never receiving proper credit for his work as he could never put his name on any of it.
He designed greeting cards in addition to the work he did with Vera. As well, he did children’s books, and was a painter. We have many of his paintings if anyone is interested in learning more about those.
He also loved gardening and spent many hours nurturing his plants, many of which he either grew from seed or planted as seedlings.
He was a beautiful person and a real humanitarian. Sadly he left this world in 2005, and my mother, Elfriede, a talented musician, just 2 years after that. He is survived by me, his daughter, and his son Paul Erhard, who lives in Colorado. Both of us are professional musicians. My father actually had said that he wanted to be a violinist when he was very young, but because there wasn’t enough money to pay for lessons, he took up drawing instead!
Later he learned to play the piano on his own.
I’m happy to hear from anyone interested in learning more about my father and his work.
You can reach me at iwavemusic@aol.com
Lisa Erhard
Sunday, December 12, 2010
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http://redfishcircle.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-present-for-you.html