hey lovely ladies, enbies, and lads!! my dad published a book called “Gracie and the Snufflepuffs” by David Rowney. it’s a children’s book (about 28 pages) based on a story he used to tell me as a kid, so the main character is based off of child-me :D currently available via the link below in kindle and paperback form!
Does/has anyone read the Geronimo/Thea Stilton books (for themselves or their kids)?
Because I have so many questions about that universe.
Like, are cats people or animals? Because in Operation: Secret Recipe, there’s a cat pirate, but then in the Thea Sisters books there are frequent references to them being animals (cat in a zoo, fake cat fur jacket, etc). Are zoos zoos or prisons?
And does the word “fabulous” just not exist? How does “fabumouse” evolve naturally into language?
Gianna Pollero’s Monster Doughnuts will be publishing on the 15th of April! Illustrated by Sarah Horne, this fun-tastic book is filled with adventure, sweets and monsters. You get to follow Grace on a-glaze-ing adventure, as she faces her biggest challenge yet, Mr. Harris, a people-eating, doughnut-loving cyclops!
Monster Doughnuts is the first book of the series, and is perfect for anyone from 5-12 years old!
There’s still a pandemic and the special collections is still closed but that won’t stop us from celebrating Caturday! Here illustrator Barbara Cooney (1917—2000) captured the romance found in Edward Lear’s The Owl & the Pussycat perfectly in our 1961 edition…
It’s hard not to love these beautiful endpapers from Skazki: Tales and Legends from Old Russia, told by Ida Zeitlin, illustrated by Theodore Nadejen (NY: George H. Doran, 1926), a kids book in our special collections…
I bet most of the people flipping out about drag queens and kids have no idea that their favorite classic children’s books were written by queer people
Arnold Lobel, the author of Frog and Toad, came out to his family in the mid-70s
Maurice Sendak lived with his male partner for 50 years
Margaret Wise Brown was an iconic chaotic bisexual. The “personal life and death” section of her Wikipedia page is a wild ride, I’ve wanted to write a biopic screenplay about her for ~ages~
James Marshall was queer and died of AIDS
Tomie dePaola was gay and came out later in life. The NYT gave him a beautiful obituary after his death in 2020
(each name is accompanied by a picture of an iconic book by that author)
