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This Story Is Not About a Kitten
[Many Calling Caldecott posts this season will begin with the Horn Book Magazine review of the featured book, followed by the post's author's critique.] This Story Is Not About a Kitten by Randall de Séve ; illus. by Carson Ellis Primary Random House Studio/Random 40 pp. g 10/22...
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Review of This Story Is Not About a Kitten
This Story Is Not About a Kitten by Randall de Se`ve ; illus. by Carson Ellis Primary Random House Studio/Random 40 pp. g10/22 978-0-593-37453-5 $18.99 Library ed. 978-0-593-37454-2 $21.99e-book ed. 978-0-593-37455-9 $10.99 This heart-tugging story centers on “a kitten, hungry and dirty, / scared and alone,...
In the Half Room
Anyone who’s ever spoken to me about picture books knows how much I love Carson Ellis’s illustrations, and it’s obvious I’m not the only one: in 2017, Du Iz Tak? won a Caldecott Honor. Upon my first reading of In the Half Room, her latest solo picture book, I wished...
Review of In the Half Room
In the Half Room by Carson Ellis; illus. by the author Primary Candlewick 32 pp. g 10/20 978-1-5362-1456-7 $16.99 In a series of images that depict halves, Ellis ushers readers into a delightfully surreal setting. With pleasing rhymes (“Half a window / Half a door / Half a rug on...
The Shortest Day
Soon after I was assigned The Shortest Day for Calling Caldecott, I heard author Susan Cooper and illustrator Carson Ellis speak about their collaboration at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Scrawled in my notes from that day is the sentence, “This isn’t a poem about merry feudal...
Five Questions for Susan Cooper
"The Shortest Day, " Susan Cooper's 1974 poem honoring the winter solstice, is performed annually at The Christmas Revels. Now, Carson Ellis's gouache illustrations grace a picture-book version, The Shortest Day (Candlewick, 5–8 years), which imagines people "down the centuries of the snow-white world" as they greet the season. See...
Review of The Shortest Day
The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper; illus. by Carson Ellis Primary Candlewick 32 pp. g 10/19 978-0-7636-8698-7 $17.99 “So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing / To drive the dark away.” Thus begins...
Table of Contents: November/December 2019 Horn Book Magazine
Cover art from The Shortest Day. Illustration © 2019 by Carson Ellis. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA. Features "Why Do Comics Matter?" by Gene Luen Yang The 2019 Zena Sutherland Lecture. "Uneasy Reading" by Laurel Snyder On keeping company with very sad books. Columns Editorial "RIP Little Jackie...
Preview November/December 2019 Horn Book Magazine
Cover art from The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper, illustration by Carson Ellis. The Zena Sutherland Lecture: Gene Luen Yang asks, "Why Do Comics Matter?" Laurel Snyder on keeping company with very sad books. Lois Lowry remembers Lee Bennett Hopkins. “Board Books Build Brains”: a round-up from Rachel Payne of...
Du Iz Tak?
Have you seen Du Iz Tak? Carson Ellis’s oversized gouache and ink spreads are impressive to be sure, but it's her ear for entomological dialogue that shines in this one; well, I’ll let you be the judge. Not to give too much away, but at the emotional climax (***spoiler alert*** when...
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