#picturebooks
An old favourite next to a happy new find. This is the version of The Night Before Christmas I had as a child, and when I saw it I knew it had to come home with me. I had the exact same reaction when I came across Silent Night; a book that depicts the Holy Family as they should be. Meaning they aren’t white. The art is spectacular, and my daughter and I really enjoyed looking through all of the pictures. I definitely recommend it.
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#christmaslights #christmasbooks #booksandlights #classicbooks #picturesofbooks #ireadkidsbooks #kidlit #picturebooks #bookphotography #bookgram #bookporn #holidayreads #irecommend #bookrecs #diversereads #bookhaul #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #readergram
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Happy Halloween! I love cute, spooky children’s books. Don’t you? They’re the perfect treat to go along with piles of Halloween candy after trick-or-treating.
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#riotgrams #booksandcandy #happyhalloween #picturebooks #childrensbooks #trickortreat #alwaystreat #halloweencandy #bookpile #illustratedbooks
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Packing up orders!!!! want a signed copy? http://sassafraslowrey.com/books/bedtime-stories-for-rescue-dogs/ w/ @lilita_yaya #dogstories #bedtimestories #bedtimestoriesforrescuedogs #rescuedogs #dogsta #dogsoftwitter #writingcommmunity #indiebooks #picturebooks or on amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0985700939/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr= #dogbooks #dogs #doglife
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My favorite spread from The New Kid Has Fleas.
I recently finished the sequel for Pink is for Boys. Phew! Here is sneak peak on my favorite spread from the new picture book Dolls and Trucks.
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Virtual Launch Party! @megan_maynor and I will be talking about saga of making Helga this Saturday at our launch party hosted by @redballoonbookshop. 8:30AM PST. You can join in your pajamas OR your armor. Aroooo! ⚔️ You can sign up here: https://www.redballoonbookshop.com/event/megan-maynor-eda-kaban-helga-makes-name-herself-virtual-launch-party?fbclid=IwAR1s6KXMZ2KodMMAStDcSJYqLpv20LwHkDXkRd0PXGNuc6-Uq8rDJ7rvfGk
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Princess Power was released last month and I completely forgot. ♀️ This Tangled spread is my favorite interior from the book. A couple more to come! Written by Natalie Davis, pub by Disney Books.
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Character sheet for Helga. I never got to polish up Wolvie so he is still scribble-y in initial design sheets.♀️
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After a long radio silence, here I am with a sneak peak of Helga the bravest little viking-to-be! I now can announce that this book is completely done on my end and I’m counting days for the color proofs!!
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Pirates Don’t Go to Kindergarten made it to semi-finals @goodreads!!! WOOHOO! ⭐️ Thanks A MILLION everyone for the votes. If you give it one more push, Emma, Lisa and I would be forever grateful. Here is the link again:
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-picture-books-2019
⭐️ Go Emma Go! ⭐️
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Meet Helga & Wolvie! Helga Makes a Name for Herself by Megan Maynor, pub by Houghton Mifflin. Coming out 2020! Happy Friday!
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The Boy And The Wild Blue Girl gets some love from Kirkus Reviews:
“This celebration of renewable power is all about the manic pixie wind girl” Out 4/14/20 - Now available for pre-order!
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One of my favourite things I illustrated for The Karate Kid was Mr Miyagi’s bonsai garden. Flip through for process sketches… The Karate Kid is available now.
#karatekid #thekaratekid #quirkbooks #mrmiyagi #popclassics #waxonwaxoff #daniellarusso #cobrakai #karate #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks #childrensbooks #kidsbooks #illustration #kimsmith https://www.instagram.com/p/BxSNF0bnNgl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9nwb60znx6nt
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Wax on, wax off! Happy Book Birthday to The Karate Kid! The latest book in the #PopClassics series is out today in bookstores. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did working on it with the fantastic team at @quirkbooks ! I’ll be celebrating it’s release all week by sharing some more illustrations and process of working on the book.
Link in my bio for where you can find your own copy today.
#karatekid #thekaratekid #quirkbooks #mrmiyagi #waxonwaxoff #daniellarusso #cobrakai #karate #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks #childrensbooks #kidsbooks #illustration #kimsmith
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I am so excited to share the cover of my first authored and illustrated picture book, Boxitects! I’ve been hard at work on this one for the past couple of years but it’s on it’s way!
Can’t wait to share more from it! Stay tuned! Available September 3rd in Canada and January 14th, 2020 everywhere else. @hmhkids @harpercollinsca
#boxitects #makers #creators #stem #steam #kimsmith #hmh #harpercollinsca #clarionbooks #childrensbooks #picturebooks #illustration #kidlit #kidlitart #boxes #boxbuilding #cardboard #cardboardart
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McJ Children’s Bookseller/ Award-Winning Author of Children’s Fiction/ Mom/ Genius Kate Milford recently shared this NPR piece with the McNally Jackson staff to help inform the suggestions they give to customers in our children’s section. The article, and her commentary (below) are worth the read.
Here’s a link to a short NPR piece about kids’ brains on stories, which gives the science behind the importance of picture books. I wanted to send the article around because there’s often an instinct with smart kids to push them to read “up”–to move from picture books to more challenging stories with more text and fewer pictures–too early. I can see it sometimes with parents who are super proud of their very advanced kids and are chomping at the bit to nudge them toward more advanced fare. I do it myself with Griffin, who will happily sit for a chapter of something complicated now and then.
This is *not* to say that I would ever second-guess a parent about what kind of book they want for their kid, or what kind of book their kid needs. But sometimes shoppers ask us which books are for which ages of readers, and if they come in looking for guidance on what to get for kids in that 3-6 year old range, picture books (and heavily illustrated beginning readers, which are often basically picture books with a different trim size) do the most good for the kiddo’s developing brain. And among picture books there’s such a wide range of storytelling complexity, there really are options for older and more advanced readers, too.
If you’re still reading, the TL;DR of the article is that with stories relying primarily on audio, kids’ language centers were activated, but there was less connectivity overall because the kids were spending most of their bandwidth just trying to follow the story; with stories told primarily through animation, the visual and auditory centers were activated but again there was less overall connectivity again because presumably the animation was doing most of the storytelling work for the kid. But with stories told through a combination of text and illustration, “researchers saw increased connectivity between–and among–all the networks they were looking at: visual perception, imagery, default mode [which the researchers describe as "the seat of the soul, internal reflection–how something matters to you”], and language.“ So there you go! Picture books rule.
A single page spread from “Margaret’s Unicorn” which published yesterday with @schwartzandwadebooks @randomhousekids yesterday in the US! #margaretsunicorn #brionymaysmith #illustration #artistsoninstagram #illustratorsoninstagram #illustrationofinstagram #illustrationoninstagram #picturebooks #picturebookillustration #childrensbooks #childrensbookillustration #kidlit #kidlitart #kidlitillustration #scotland #scottishhighlands #hills #mountains #heather #moors
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Enjoy this flip-through of our lovely, recently published book “The Flying Squirrel Stowaways”, available in our store now! http://bit.ly/2y04P1T #christmasbooks #picturebooks #childrensbooks #readlocal #novascotia (at Halifax, Nova Scotia)
