Tag Archive | "picture books"

Picture Book This: FArTHER

Sunday, July 3, 2011

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FArTHER By Grahame Baker-Smith Templar Publishing I’m a soppy, sentimental sort. Always have been. There’s a familiar thrill to the catch in your throat, the welling up of sentiment and feeling in your chest. It comes from books, from film, occasionally from comics. But nothing prepared me for the wave of emotions that swept over me [...]

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Mail is good, this mail was better…..

Sunday, May 15, 2011

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Posted last month, but I finally got around to seeing it now, The Guardian website has a gallery featuring some of the greatest envelopes – all posted to children’s book publisher Klaus Fugge. There’s only a few on the Guardian site, Fugge’s favourites, but it’s reported that he received almost 100 – I’d love to [...]

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Picture Book This – Silly Doggy

Saturday, May 14, 2011

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Silly Doggy By Adam Stower Templar Publishing Picture Book This is a series where we look at those illustrated books that slightly blur the already insubstantial and very movable fine line between the picture book and comics. Or, on a simpler level, it’s an excuse for me to talk about some of the beautiful picture books [...]

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Picture Book This – Book Trust Best New Illustrators

Saturday, April 23, 2011

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I try to do a few pieces fairly regularly about children’s picture books here on the blog. Partly because it’s interesting to look specifically at some of those picture books that blur the line between picture books and comics, partly because I’m intrigued to see children interacting with them as part of my job at [...]

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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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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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