Tag Archive | "children’s books"

Maurice Sendak, RIP

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

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Terrible news for all lovers of books – the great Maurice Sendak has passed away at the age of 83, from complications arising from a recent stroke according to the NY Times article. It’s impossible to overstate the towering influence Sendak has had – quite probably the pre-eminent illustrator of children’s books in the last [...]

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Kate and Jules Feiffer talk

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

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Illustrator and cartoonist Jules Feiffer and his daughter, children’s writer Kate, talk about work they have collaborated on (via Comic Reporter):

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Picture Book This – The Kiss That Missed

Saturday, March 19, 2011

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The Kiss That Missed By David Melling Hodder Children’s Books There’s a blurry borderline between some picture books and comics. And it’s one that’s blurring more and more as both genres find new ways to tell stories and as more and more publishers in the book field embrace comics as a way of delivering a [...]

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Picture Book This – Oscar & Hoo

Sunday, February 13, 2011

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Oscar And Hoo By Theo and Michael Dudok De Wit Collins There’s a blurry borderline between some picture books and comics. And it’s one that’s blurring more and more as both genres (stupid, stupid, stupid me. Comics aren’t a genre. Nor are picture books.) find new ways to tell stories and as more and more [...]

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Hey, lazy cartoonist, leave those kids alone!

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

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Jamie Smart gets hot under the collar over lazy creators who assume because they are making something aimed at children they can get away with putting in less effort: “The issue for me boils down to this – just because your audience is children, doesn’t mean they’ll accept any old crap. Some comics are written [...]

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Leeds Graphic Novel Awards

Thursday, October 7, 2010

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The sparkly Thought Bubble crew alert us to the upcoming new Leeds Graphic Novel Awards, which is aimed at comics for younger readers. Nominations include evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson for Beasts of Burden, Dave Shelton for Good Dog, Bad Dog, Ben Haggarty and Adam Brockbank for Mezolith, Charlie Higson and Kev Walker for Silverfin, [...]

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Colliding Words and Pictures: An interview with Sarah McIntyre

Friday, September 24, 2010

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Sarah McIntyre is, as regular readers will know, a huge favourite of your FP blog crew (not least with our cub reporter, young Molly) for her comics and her illustration work, as well as for her sparkly tiaras at comics and book events. This autumn sees the second wave of graphic novel collections from the [...]

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Zig And Wikki – hugs and bugs from Toon Books

Friday, April 2, 2010

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Zig And Wikki – Something Ate My Homework by Nadja Spiegelman and Trade Loeffler Toon Books “I wanted to write a story that would have both hugs and bugs— a friendship and gross facts about flies” Nadja Spiegelman in School Library Journal. Poor Zig – he’s late with his homework and needs to find a [...]

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Sarah McIntyre wins book prize

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

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A delighted and excited sounding Sarah McIntyre tells us that she’s won the Picture Book Award while attending the first ever Children’s Book Festival at Bishop’s Stortford for Morris the Mankiest Monster, which she collaborated with bestselling kid’s author Giles Andreae on.From Sarah’s blog it seems that kids from a number of local schools got [...]

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It’s a grey, miserable day – have a picture of Sarah McIntyre’s new book….

Friday, November 20, 2009

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Just because it’s a lovely, happy image on a rather miserably grey day with rain sheeting down here – Sarah McIntyre’s next children’s book, written by Gillian Rogerson: When King Cupcake is kidnapped by hungry aliens, it’s up to his feisty daughter, Princess Spaghetti, to save him from becoming their dinner. She blasts off into [...]

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Fleece Station, Banal Pigs and Manky Monster news….

Saturday, October 31, 2009

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And if you understand that title, well done, you’ve been reading the FPI blog for a long time – maybe we need long service badges? First up: The latest Panel Borders podcast concludes a month long series of shows on “collectives and anthologies” with Dickon Harris chatting to the Banal Pig pairing of Steve Tillotson [...]

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Salem Brownstone – Just your usual art-deco gothic fantasy children’s book…

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Salem Brownstone – All Along The Watchtowers by John Hattis Dunning and Nikhil Singh Walker Books “A wonderfully imaginative and stylish piece of work and a perfect example of the adventurous new directions that comic books should be taking in the future.” Alan Moore. That Alan Moore quote on the back of this children’s book [...]

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DFC back … sort of.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

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Announcement over at the Booktrade.info site about the forthcoming range of DFC books to be released by David Fickling books in 2010. For those new to this DFC thing or for those of us with short memories; The DFC was a weekly subscription only comic from David Fickling that was much loved around these parts [...]

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Morris is marvellously, monstrously manky

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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Morris The Mankiest Monster by Giles Andreae and Sarah McIntyre David Fickling Books It’s years since he last changed his t-shirt. It’s crusty and crawling with ants. His shoes are all slurpy and squelchy inside. And potatoes grow out of his pants. Just look at the cover – sweet, cute and fantastically gross. But what [...]

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Morris the Mankiest Monster to be let loose at BICS

Sunday, September 20, 2009

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Sarah McIntyre – a solid fave with the FP blog crew – has announced that her collaboration with much-loved writer of some lovely children’s books, Giles Andreae, Morris the Mankiest Monster, will make its debut at the upcoming British International Comics Show (which will run over October 3rd and 4th) and is published by David [...]

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