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Review of Island Storm
Island Storm by Brian Floca; illus. by Sydney Smith Preschool, Primary Porter/Holiday 48 pp. 7/25 9780823456475 $18.99 Caldecott winner Floca and Hans Christian Andersen Award winner Smith team up to create a magnificent, timeless tale of two young children on an adventure close to home. An intense storm is approaching....
Review of With Dad
With Dad by Richard Jackson; illus. by Brian FlocaPrimary Porter/Holiday 40 pp.5/24 9780823444953 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823455362 $11.99“In Michigan country on a two-rut road along a stream called the upper South Branch of the Au Sable River,” a young boy sits on his father’s lap in a red Jeep, two sets...
Review of Keeping the City Going
Keeping the City Going by Brian Floca; illus. by the author Primary Dlouhy/Atheneum 40 pp. g 4/21 978-1-5344-9377-3 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-9378-0 $10.99 Caldecott winner Floca (Locomotive, rev. 9/13) presents a love letter to New York City and its essential workers during COVID-19. “We are here at home now, watching...
Hawk Rising
If the flight of a hawk is poetry in motion, then this book is, too. Author Maria Gianferrari provides the poetry, and illustrator Brian Floca provides the hawk in motion. Parallel stories are at work here: Father Hawk hunts, while Mother Hawk stays with their chicks; a human girl, binoculars...
Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas
Since Brian Floca won the Caldecott last year for Locomotive, you can bet this year's committee will be taking a look at his 2014 picture book.Written by long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox, this is a factual account of a particularly incorrigible elephant seal and the Christchurch, New Zealand, community that eventually...
B: A Profile of Brian Floca
An editor’s dream — smart authors, smart artists. They save so much time. That is, they’re up to speed without undue heaving or the need for sand on the tracks (see Locomotive for more on the subject). My subject in this tribute is someone who is all three: author, artist,...
Worlds collide
Readers of this blog will know exactly why I am linking to this month's School Library Journal's cover story: kudos to Brian Floca, Locomotive, and our own Robin Smith!...
Studio Views: Pen, Ink, Watercolor, Repeat
I began my illustration career with black and white work. I was much more of a drawer than a painter, much more comfortable with line than with color. One of the things that attracted me to the combination of pen-and-ink and watercolor back then was that watercolor’s transparency allowed me...
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild and Locomotive: Compare and Contrast
On Tuesday Robin took a second look at Journey and Mr. Wuffles!; today I am grouping another two books with, perhaps, little in common except their excellence, their top-notch production values, their presence on many mock Caldecott winning ballots—and the distinct possibility that they’ll find a place on the real...
Locomotive
The first thing you notice about Brian Floca’s Locomotive is its big, bold size and square shape. Jonathan Bean's Building our House has a larger-than-average trim size as well, but this is different. This one has a lot more bells and whistles (literally: “CLANG-CLANG CLANG-CLANG” “WHOO-OOOOOO”). This one is in-your-face big;...
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