Crushes of the Week: October 16-22, 2022

This week's crushes:

1. If I Had a Vampire Bat by Gabby Dawnay and Alex Barrow (Thames & Hudson, October 2022)
2. Octopuses Have Zero Bones: A Counting Book about Our Amazing World by Anne Richardson and Andrea Antinori (Tra Publishing, September 2022)
3. Teddy, Let's Go! by Michelle Nott and Nahid Kazemi (Enchanted Lion Books, September 2022)
4. Say Hello? by Sung Mi Kim and translated by Clare Richards (Berbay Publishing, October 2022)
5. The Fairy Atlas: Fairy Folk of the World by Anna Claybourne and Miren Asiain Lora (Laurence King, October 2022)
6. Boney by Cary Fagan and Dasha Tolstikova (Groundwood Books, October 2022)
7. The Box by Isabella Paglia and Paolo Prioetti and translated by Laura Watkinson (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, October 2022)

   

  

Endpapers for the end of your week!

Let's Talk Illustrators #227: Tania Yakunova

Today I'm super excited to share my conversation with up-and coming-illustrator Tania Yakunova! Tania's debut comes in the form of Dr. Rekha S. Rajan's super fun and interactive board book series This Is Music: Horns and This Is Music: Drums, and it was a (horn) blast talking to Tania about her research for the project and (drumroll, please)...what they have coming next for the series! Okay, enough puns, let's get to it!

Case(wrap) of the Mondays

We've got a case(wrap) of the Mondays!

Latin American Artists in Conversation

On September 22, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art hosted New York-based publisher Tapioca Stories for a conversation with their award-winning Latin American authors and illustrators Andrés Sandoval, Mariana Alcántara, and Guilherme Karsten. If these names sound familiar to you, it's because I have interviewed each of them here on Let's Talk Picture Books (you can see those links at the bottom of this post), and I'm so excited to host the official summary of the event here. If you'd like to watch the event as it was recorded in Spanish, scroll all the way down and you'll find a YouTube video you can click on. Let's talk Latin American artists!

      

Announcing the Undies and Introducing the Endies

Super excited to announce that I'm joining my buddies (and #inspirations) Travis Jonker and Carter Higgins for their annual Undies Awards, and together we're also launching The Endies: Endpaper Awards!

Rules and nomination form for favorite undies are here.

Rules and nomination form for favorite endies are here.

Good luck!!

Gone Fishing