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Barbe Bleue Mauritius Quarello

Barbe Bleue by Charles Perrault, illustrated by Maurice Quarello, Milan Presse, Classiques Collection Albums, April 15, 2010

Behind every freedom longed

c 'lurks a beast.

Alda Merini ⁽¹⁾

In these few words of the great Italian poet, who died just over a year ago, it captures the essence of the drama of Blue Beard: The last moment of pathos experienced young wife, imprisoned in a reality that falls on him with all his weight.

Blue Beard is well-known text, the story of a man who probably would today call "serial killer" and a female victim, first of all, its naivete, the thirst for social satisfaction, curiosity, and then the man quell'inquietante blue beard which all fear.

What really makes a difference in this book, published by the prestigious French publisher Milan Presse are illustrations of Maurice Quarello .

Mauritius is a masterful illustrator, with extraordinary interpretive skills and an enviable painting technique. In its representations is chameleon-like, you know give voice to each story in a unique way, drifting from the story, and adapt the technical needs narrative: we saw him go from painting full of Babau Search House of Toni Mannaro and of Le Voyage de la Femme Elephant the virtual absence of color de Tree Anne when his delicate and poetic narrative takes place almost at the tip feet, ending with the comic book of Effets Secondaires , just released for the Rouergue.

In this book we Maurizio suggests all his love for cinema. If I were asked to give a definition of this book, I would say that is a roll of film which reveals the atmosphere of the movie or the last Ivory Pride and Prejudice Wright, a work in which everything is moving, even immobility.

Each image represents a moment caught and crystallized in a frame, which also seems to go well beyond the space of the page. Each table, even those more apparently silent, tells of a growing pathos, culminating in the defeat of the terrible Blue Beard

The narrative begins with an emblematic image: Blue Beard looks pensively out the window, wrapped in light filtering timid between the rain clouds, an omen of impending disaster. We see him watch his victim, as if in ambush, in the distance, we take the unawareness of her in her last moments of innocent girl, she still does not know the fate that awaits him. We watch them, newlyweds, the coach who will lead them to their new life. Then the empty hallway of a long twilight which is a prelude to a fearful mystery. Finally, after an indefinite time, we see the friends who take advantage of their feared her husband to sneak in a private cause for envy and curiosity and his young wife to let go, prey to his own curiosity, and discovering the gruesome secret disguised behind the blue of the beard husband. The key

bloody evidence of the sin of the young woman and the only witness of the frightening discovery, looms as a silent denunciation of female weakness before the ban. The husband comes, cloaked in darkness.

From this time the events happen quickly and dramatically faster, and fully reflect the dynamism of the boards: Blue Beard discovers the wrongdoing, accuses his wife and sentenced to die, like the previous wives. The narrative images, which until then had been following and descriptive than the text seems to veer abruptly stopped introducing disturbing image that contribute to substantially increase the dramatic tension. The changes in perspective, frequent and rapid, gives the story intensity buoyant.

After the pronouncement of the death sentence illustrator again amazes us, transporting us out of the secret of Blue Beard, completely changing scene: a suspension of time equal to the soaring of a bird in flight, there is the sister of the bride looks out the window of his room, if there was no text to reveal the reason for this scene would miss only the quiet spring and the clear sky. It is the central image of the narrative, the turning point that allows us to take a first breath giving us hope, an image that, for the grace and light to the intensity of the moment described, makes me think of poetry Keats.

But that is not a moment, because we are immediately trapped in a vortex of fearful events that lead us towards the climax of the story.

Quarello uses cinematic techniques with an enviable mastery, the most easily tamed his job was that of director and illustrator. And reverse field, the zoom, the still picture (strange to use these definitions for a roll shows, but it is so), it seems that the picture is not going to stop with the border of the page, it took almost sucked into the vortex of events. And that's exactly what happens.

His painting draws heavily Hopper and the atmosphere of romance, from the color palette chosen, the density of smooth strokes, from the play of light and shadow, the subjects portrayed. Admirable shots unexpected and always surprising.

Once again a masterpiece not to be missed. If you love Maurice

Quarello to stay around, soon there will be other news.



⁽¹⁾ Aphorisms and Magic , Alda Merini, with art by Alberto Casiraghi, Rizzoli Editore, November 1999.


Barbe Bleue by Charles Perrault, illustrated by Maurice Quarello, Classiques Collection Albums, © 2010 Éditions Milan. The images have been published with the permission of the publisher, their reproduction is prohibited.

Big Green Egg Thank You Letter

A sad day I

Today is a sad day, long feared, one day I was hoping not to have to see. I

just received a message from Christian Bruel, owner and soul of Editions Etre , so I tried to give the warning in recent months: Editions Etre unfortunately not make it, will close its doors later this year.

I say this with deep sadness and regret not being able to do more than I did. Among them some of the biggest artists on the international scene, their books are precious gems, precious stones, which remain in any house but closed to the most fortunate.

Turns off a bright light and brilliant, especially the free and of high quality. Once again the Titans win and lose little, but I would not I give up and once again cry out loud that

CULTURE AND 'FREEDOM', DIFENDIAMOLA!

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Graduates of the 2010 Salon de Montreuil

Here are the winners of various categories for this year's Salon de Montreuil !


Iniziamo con il prestigiosissimo


Baobab Album

The Golden Rule of hide and seek

di Christophe Honore Illustrazioni di Gwen Le Gac, Actes Sud Junior , 2010.

Altro important premio

Award 1st album

Mr hundred heads

di Ghislaine Herber, Publishing MeMo , 2010.

continuiamo con il

Prix de la presse des jeunes

Des hommes dans la guerre d'Algérie

testi di Isabelle Bournier, illustrazioni di Jacques Ferrandez, Casterman , 2010.

Prix Terre en vue

Petites et grandes histoires des animaux disparus

di Hélène Rajcak e Damien Laverdunt, con la collaborazione di Cecile Colin Luke Vives e del Museo Nazionale di Storia Naturale Actes Sud Junior, 2010.

Price abord'art

Little Gallery Andy Warhol

di Patricia Geis, et al. The small gallery, Palette Editions, 2010

Prix Coup de heart of the team's Salon

Little Gibert illustrated

Bruno Gibert, Albin Michel Jeunesse , 2010

all for now stay tuned for more news.

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The Great Alfredo - Spider

The Great Alfredo , Spider, Ear Acerbo Publisher, 2010

The Great Alfredo is a great, great clown, the largest ever existed: it is incredible stunts, irresistible tells jokes, does anything to make his audience laugh. Why you ask? Because laughing is good for health as scientifically proven, and Alfred the Great is uno scienziato della risata.  

Il Grande Alfredo ha un'energia invidiavile, non v'è nulla che lo possa fermare, nemmeno la malattia. Un giorno difatti, durante uno dei suoi increbili funambolismi, il clown più famoso del mondo cade e si fa male, molto male.

Voleva curare il mondo a furia di risate ed ora? Cosa ne sarà del più famoso clown della terra? Ora che è gravemente ferito alle gambe come farà ad esibirsi nelle sue funamboliche evoluzioni? Ma il Grande Alfredo, si sa, non è tipo that strikes easily, indeed:

The most famous and beloved clown of the world decides to resume the show, is greeted by his jubilant audience. Announced the world tour tickets are sold out a flash and a great Alfredo returns to make all ages laugh with his jokes hilarious, but, again, is a bridge too far and get hurt again, seriously, terribly! What will become of poor Alfred is now completely paralyzed from head down?

Like Winnie, the heroine surreal di  Giorni Felici  di Beckett, anche il Grande Alfredo si trova bloccato, completamente immobile: in un primo tempo dalla vita in giù, poi dalla testa in giù. Esattamente. Come Winnie anche Il Grande Alfredo non darà peso alla sua condizione, "rialzandosi" e ricominciando a modo suo. Parallelismo che inizia e termina qui, poiché ne Il Grande Alfredo non solo la tematica è differente ma l'intento artistico-filosofico di tale scelta ha scopi distanti: Spider infatti, benché sfiori con leggiadria la tematica della condizione umana centrale nel dramma di Beckett, sembra volerci dire che, laddove le difficoltà diventano insopportabili l'unica alternativa possibile è the reaction. Where Winnie resigned to their condition and showing only a slight hint of discomfort, the Great Alfredo suggests that we attack the problem (and disease) with a huge laugh, not a bitter and sardonic laughter mind you, but with a laugh joyful and profound, a laugh so liberating change from the fate that seemed to have locked up forever.

The Great Alfredo closely resembles the character of Patch Adams, as the editors rightly say in their submission to the text, but it is a Patch Adams with a strong touch of the surreal accentuated, if possible, by the beautiful illustrations that recall American comics of the years 20-40, from Betty Boop (clearly mentioned in the last picture below), to Popeye, Mickey Mouse at the beginning (to Steamboat Willie for instance), with a modern finishing touch that reminds me of the peculiar art of Gary Baseman .

Spider, his real name is Daniele Melani, was born in Florence. After some roaming around the world has been based in Pesaro. With his art has helped to beautify various newspapers, including the "Manifesto" and "Twenty-Four." Over time he conducted an impressive artistic research, his style relaxed and multicultural influences and in fact includes very different trends: changes from the manga cartoons, from pop art to expressionism sign, not to mention the graffiti. For its use graphic boards, battens and pasty colors that stain the scratched surface, giving an expressive touch intense and dramatic, highlighting the surreal and sometimes grotesque stories recounting.

Besides The Great Alfredo , for the publisher Ear Acerbo Published:

Cloudy, with texts by Fabian Negrin (2002);

The invisible world and other stories , text by Fabian Negrin, illustrated by various authors (2004);

repair your grandfather , with text by Stefano Benni (2006 )

Emma. Where do the flowers in the winter? opera debut as an author (2008).

Footnotes:

1. For fans of Popeye, aka Popeye, I recommend the following site: http://popeyeanimators.blogspot.com/ ;
2. on Betty Boop, among the other is my favorite illustrator Grim Natwick on the site of Michael Sporn will find many interesting information: http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/index.php?s=Grim+Natwick&submit=Search ;
3. If you want to know Gary Baseman better, this is his site: http://www.garybaseman.com/ .

Copyright text and pictures of the Publishing House Ear Acerbo 2010. The images have been published with the permission of the publisher, their reproduction is prohibited.

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Unexpected this post, because it comes outside of all the programs I had done, but you know i love at first sight there's always unexpected, and it was this time too.

As always happens to me, out of ignorance, a twist of fate, or for other reasons which I can not think, even today I am late, but added, that's what really matters. Check for my walk all crooked and shady, lost among the fog of the season and the intellectual, to present a MASTERPIECE

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, illustrated by Tullio Pericoli, Editions Adelphi, 2007

The tracks in the book were selected by Anna Maria Lorusso.

Actually the original idea of \u200b\u200bthe book we Olivetti, which commissioned and printed an edition limited edition set to selected customers, they were the eighties, between 1982 and 1984 and, as told Dangers in the same preface, he found himself in a difficult transition, divided between the illustrations for newspapers and the world of art galleries, including the designer-illustrator and painter. The beautiful story of the artist, the way this book explains how to explain it was helpful to find an artistic unity that until then was blocked, denied by the dichotomy of expression that he wanted the world to the designer and painter of source separated. As he himself tells us, Robinson Crusoe, which included the two worlds of expression, at the time, were the subject of his research: the man, the subject of the work for newspapers, and nature, a favorite subject for paintings. In Robinson Crusoe the two elements merge and mingle almost, and this work of aggregation is evident in the tables that illustrate the novel.

In this new version of Adelphi, there are a lot higher than all'oroginale tables printed by Olivetti, which show a great interest in research.

my only gripe, if a critique is given me to do, is the almost total absence of the character of Friday, although Defoe's novel has its own importance, and I'd like to see represented in the same way as Friday is the expression of the island as trees, fish, birds and green peaks. Friday is the savage Caliban's Shakespeare's Tempest, is the point of collision and fusion between man and nature: the archetype of the Wild told around a strand of literature which, in my humble opinion, deserved more attention. It is true that the same dangers he tells us what to Robinson and the Island are the two main characters of the novel poiché mezzo perfetto per portare avanti quella fusione fra giornale e galleria d'arte, disegnatore e pittore, uomo e natura, dando all'uno caratteristiche dell'altro e viceversa. Vero anche che nel romanzo di Defoe, sebbene sia importante, Venerdì ha comunque un ruolo minore rispetto a Robinson, ben lungi dalla bellissima reintepretazione di Michel Tournier in Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique in cui egli ha un ruolo da comprimario, se non quello di voce della coscienza del bianco Robinson.

Ad ogni modo, questa assenza non va ad intaccare la bellezza di questo libro che rimane per me un capolavoro di rara bellezza.

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Unexpected Rain Fall

In queste giornate di ruinous rains, let it overwhelm you with these small drops of color and wisdom. All books should not miss: some recent, some a little older.

Starting the parade could not be you, Suzy Lee, with his latest masterpiece, released simultaneously last September (most days, fewer days) in three countries: Italy, France and the United States!

Shadow, Suzy Lee, Corraini Editions, September 2010

Shadow, Suzy Lee, Chronicle Books, September 2010

Ombres , Suzy Lee, Kaleidoscope Editions, September 2010

gieniale The story is simple and, in the best tradition of this great artist leave a child alone in the attic with some common objects, old, dusty, and the first instinct you know, is to explore and the best way to explore it through the game as, preferably alone. Even the simplest objects, filtered by a vivid imagination, taking appearance unimagined ( The Little Nicolas Sempé to sign) all the more a reflection of their shadows will inspire unexpected scenarios. As in The Wave , and Mirror , Lee likes to mark the transition from the imagination to the real border between the two adjacent pages. As in the books just mentioned, even in Shadow The image becomes, at some point, a more concrete expression, sometimes threatening, physically breaking into the space of real, as if to make visible what, after all , real and imaginary feed on each other. In short: a masterpiece of the Korean, accurate and sensitive interpretation of a childhood lived on the edge of fantasy.

In an interesting article, New York Times uses such Shadow Suzy Lee to prove that the printed page, in an age of digitalization of reading (in constant acceleration even with tools like the iPad), it is still vital and to some extent irreplaceable. Here is a beautiful

interview (in English) by Suzy Lee, though a bit 'antiquated:
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1410
and again: The DPI
Magazine - do not be afraid of the Korean, below you will find the English version http://suzyleebooks.com/zeroboard/zboard.php?id=misc&page=5&sn1 = & divpage = 1 & sn = off & ss = on & sc = on & select_arrange headnum = & desc = asc & no = 70

Reviews in Italian :
bed between us - http://www.lettofranoi.it/tag/suzy-lee/
Forkids - http://www.forkids. it/2010/07/09/ombra /

Tests in English :
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=2023
You Know, For Kids - http://youknowforkidsblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-books-shadow.html
Publishers Weekly - http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new -titles/childrens-announcements/article/43866-wordless-wonders.html

Reviews in French: La
Citrouille - http://lsj.hautetfort.com/archive/2010/11/08/ombres.html


Another great artist on the international scene This time the United States, with one of his latest projects:

Lulu and the Brontosaurus , by Judith Viorst, illustrated by Lane Smith, Atheneum Books, September 2010



After It's a Book, a project solo, the great delights us with Lane Smith illustrated this book paired with Judith Viorst . Actually, this book would fit perfectly in the post that I titled Ugly, Dirty and Bad ... and I tell you just why: Lulu, the book's protagonist is a spoiled child, viziatissima, reminiscent blatantly de Veruca Salt and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl . Lulu nothing is denied. One day he wakes up and decides he wants a puppy for Brontosaurus. If the parents insist on maintaining the firm refusal, Lulu does not give in and take action, because it can not take no for an answer: I remember the scene where Veruca decides to take the squirrel on its own, much to the horror of adults and children present. To end my parallelism, there is also a kind of rhythmic chant reminiscent of the musicality of the songs of the Umpa Lumpa:

"I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, gonna get
in Bronte-Bronte -Bronte Brontosaurus
for a pet.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, gonna get
-Bronte-Bronte Bronte Brontosaurus
for a pet. "

like the best of Dahl's books, including Lulu does not put things exactly right, in a cruel reversal of the Brontosaurus will share his Lulu cucciolo.

Link a Lane Smith :
sito  http://www.lanesmithbooks.com/Home.html
blog http://lanesart.blogspot.com/
 
Interviste con Lane Smith :
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1422  
Adventures Underground - http://www.advunderground.com/interviews/smith1106.php
Estrella's Revenge - http://estellabooks.blogspot.com/2009/02/authorillustrator-interview-lane-smith.html
The Wall Street Journal Speakeasy - http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/08/31/its-a-book-author-lane-smith-on-kids-and-technology/  (su It's a Book)
Housatonic Times - http://www.housatonictimes.com/articles/2010/10/15/entertainment/doc4cb70c1946b1b665670407.txt  
Reading Rockets - http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/smith  (video)
Carnegie Corporation of NY (Teachers for a new era) - http://www.tne.uconn.edu/interviews/lane%20smith.mp3 (audio)
Just One More Book - http://www.justonemorebook.com/2008/08/25/interview-with-lane-smith/ (audio)

Interviews with Judith Viorst :
The Kennedy Center - http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/family/alexander/author.html
Book Page - http://www.bookpage .com/0711bp/judith_viorst.html
Dream Jam World - http://www.dreamjamworld.com/interview.html (audio)
and an excerpt from World Literature Today - http: / / goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-541123/An-interview-with-Judith-Viorst.html

Reviews:
Dog Ear - http://nicolepoliti.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/lulu-and-the-brontosaurus-by-judith-viorst-illustrated-by-lane- smith-2010 /
Proseandkahn - http://proseandkahn.livejournal.com/131068.html?thread=28156


stay in America but we change the atmosphere with Peter Sis, and the last album , the sequel of the series dedicated to Madlenka:

Madlenka Soccer Star, by Peter Sis, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) , 28 September 2010

Madlenka's Dog Sis was the first book I bought during one of my first trip to NY, since I do not usually let one get away. Peter Sis has a unique feeling that is transposed in its tables, and in the stories told through a rarefied atmosphere and dreaming: his The Wall (which won the Caldecott Honor Book mention, which is also dedicated this beautiful article in the New York Times), Tibet Through the Red Box (splendid roll autobiography in which he reveals the contents of the mysterious red box carried by his father after a stay in Tibet), The Tree of Life (precursore dei molti libri dedicati a Darwin usciti recentemente).
Ma veniamo a noi: Madlenka è una bambina che abita nella grande città e, come tutti i bambini che abitano in grandi città, cerca uno spazio che possa essere suo, lo cerca fra le auto, per la strada, all'ombra degli alberi che crescono asfittici nell'asfalto. Come per tutti i bambini che vivono nelle grandi città, i compagni di gioco possono essere altri bambini, oppure alberi, oggetti, animali. Uscita di casa con il suo nuovo pallone da calcio oggi Madlenka è irrefrenabile, scatenata, incontenibile! Gioca, gioca ovunque. Suoi compagni di squadra una buca per le lettere, qualche cat, a parking meter, a dog, all invariably immersed in a world neighborhood, the mirror of the world's most popular sport and the recent African world. Madlenka But, in reality, is training for the women's World Cup 2011 in Germany! Here is the site

Peter Sis: http://www.petersis.com/index2.html

Interviews: On the Job
, Mystery Man - http://www.zuzu. org / sisinterview.html
School Library Journal - http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6351977.html?q=under+cover+video (video)
Reading Rockets - http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/sis/transcript and http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/sis (video)
NPR - http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/sis (audio)

Reviews:
Books For Kids - http://booksforkidsblog.blogspot.com/ 2010/11/kick-off-madlenka-soccer-star-by-peter.html



And now we come to England with:

The Rabbit Problem , Emily Gravett, Macmillan Children's Books , August 7, 2009

This book, published in 2009, is based on the Fibonacci sequence. Gulp! Well no: Emily Gravett manages, as always, to make fun and adventurous story that tells all. Who does not remember Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears ? Well, in this book, the English author unleashes his imagination, producing a masterpiece of inventiveness, the text reproduces the form of a calendar, every month, keeps count of the number of rabbits that add a Lonely, lonely protagonist of the first table. As in the case of Shadow Suzy Lee, also in The Rabbit Problem you must rotate the book to browse, as you would with a real calendar. For each table, with a technique performed rigorously mixed with watercolor drawings and collage, Gravett adds details: envelopes, instructions on how to make a nice sweater against the cold, a small book of recipes, lots of little notes scattered and there. A book for all those children who have an irresistible thirst for discovery and who enjoy reading and rereading the books, always looking for new details.

And for an online experience: the site Emily Gravett www.emilygravett.com/

Interviews:
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/? p = 1606
Booktrust Childrens Books http://www.booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk/show/feature/Features% 20Interviews/Interview-with-Emily-Gravett and http : / / www.booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk/show/feature/Emily-Gravett-interview-2
The Telegraph UK - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3664140/The-road-less-travelled.html
Reading Rockets -  http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/gravett  e http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/gravett/transcript
Kids Book Review - http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2010/09/interview-emily-gravett.html

Recensioni :
B is For Books - http://www.thaolam.com/blog/?p=476
Henrietta - http://henriettamouse.blogspot.com/2010/02/rabbit-problem-by-emily-gravett.html
The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/19/rabbit-problem-emily-gravett-review
The Bookbag - http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=The_Rabbit_Problem_by_Emily_Gravett
Kirkus Reviews - http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/childrens-books/emily-gravett/rabbit-problem/
 

Torniamo oltre oceano con il bravissimo Peter Brown, già autore di The Curious Garden , ed il suo ultimo lavoro:

Children Make Terrible Pets , di Peter Brown, Little, Brown & Company , 7 settembre 2010

Divertentissimo! La piccola Rose trova un bambino nel bosco e decide di farne il suo cucciolo. Dato che il bambino non parla ma squittisce, Rose lo chiamerà Squeaker. Ma mamma orsa non concorda con Rose perché, come le dice non appena vede Squeaker: "Children make terrible pets"*. Come nel caso di Lulu and the Brontosaurus , even in Children Make Terrible Pets , there is a reversal: the human it becomes, despite himself, a pet, while the animals are portrayed as human . With a background that mimics the texture of the wood and the central images framed in warm colors and rounded corners, seem to lack only the knobs and here we are in front of an old TV, ready to watch the new adventures of those who (perhaps out of sheer nostalgia, or because the TV with the knobs brings me back to times when a child, I watched them) remind me so much Yogi and Booboo in their beautiful Yellowstone Park! Single intruder, as always, man!

For more information about Peter Brown, I refer you to his site : http://www.peterbrownstudio.com/

And these Interviews:
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1920
Into the Wardrobe - http://peteredmundlucy7.blogspot.com/2009/07/authorillustrator-interview- peter-brown.html
Giggle - http://ali.blogs.giggle.com/2010/07/15/an-a-list-interview-peter-brown/
Sory Sleuths - http://www.storysleuths.com/2010/04/interview-with-peter-brown-curious.html
Embracing the Child - http://www.embracingthechild.org/abrown.html
Ed una Video-intervista: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w2vC-9An0k

Recensioni :
100 Scope Notes - http://100scopenotes.com/2010/11/04/review-children-make-terrible-pets-by-peter-brown/
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=2025 (with many illustrations and sketches)
Children's Book Reviews - http://wordsbymom.com/authors/peter-brown/children-make-terrible-pets/
Twenty by Jenny - http://www.twentybyjenny.com/47Books/review/children-make-terrible-pets/
Kid's Book Buzz - http://kidsbookbuzz.blogspot.com/2010/10 / children-make-terrible-pets-by-peter.html

stay in America and then depart for the Netherlands, with

Knuffle Bunny Free , Mo Willems, Balzer & Bray , September 28, 2010

Even Knuffle Bunny Free it is a sequel, to be precise is the book that concludes the trilogy that began with Knuffle Bunny, a Cautionary Tale , and continued with Knuffle Bunny, a Case of Mistaken Identity . Other
register purchased during a trip to NY, another lightning strike!
Trixie and Knuffle Bunny are inseparable, when Trixie and Knuffle Bunny was so high was just out of the box brand new. Trixie for the distance from Knuffle Bunny is unsustainable (just yesterday, the child of my neighbor crying in despair because he had momentarily lost his favorite game, as not to understand?), Although, to be honest, sometimes Knuffle Bunny seems to get lost on purpose. Certainly that Knuffle, in his deep thirst for exploration, has a funny way of choosing the locations of his travels oject: when you lose in the washing machine when he took refuge in the arms of the worst enemy of Trixie, putting in place a impersonator ... When, on a flight to Amsterdam Trixie and family, decides to take a detour on his way (this is an opportunity to Knuffle Bunny Free ). For all the books in the trilogy, Willems uses a mixed technique, featuring photographs (more or less urban) background, and line drawings mostly pastel colors for the characters. Everything you wanted to play on a misunderstanding: the real / unreal what backgrounds wisely in black and white, which make them almost universal, however, deliberately suspended in time, modern reading of the old "once upon a time, , in a country far, far away ..."; real / unreal even to the characters and their stories, always suspended between the real and the imagined act.
Mo Willems, as you will read in some of the interviews linked below, has a background in television, theater and entertainment during his career he has received: 3 Caldecott Honors, Geisel 2 medals, two Carnegie medals , 6 Emmys! Among his many books, famous Do not Let the Pidgeon Drive the Bus , and the series of books dedicated to the most beautiful small Elephant and Piggie , Cat and the Cat Big Frog, to name only a few. What strikes me is the linearity of his art and the extreme simplicity of the images on Willems which is able to enter deeply related to childhood issues.

For more about Mo Willems:

Site http://www.mowillems.com/
Blog http://mowillemsdoodles.blogspot.com/
;
Interviews:
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=863 - http://blaine.org / sevenimpossiblethings /? p = 841
Book Trust Children's Books - http://www.booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk/show/feature/Features%20Interviews/Interview-with-Mo-Willems
Trap Door Sun - http://www.trapdoorsun.com/literature/mo-willems.aspx
Scholastic - http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=7518
At Home Dad - http://www.athomedad.org/node/605
Babble - http://www.babble.com/content/articles/columns/5minutetimeout/mo-willems-a-chat-with-the-creator-of-knuffle-bunny-too/
Reading Rockets - http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/willems/transcript   e http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/willems/transcript
Just One More Book - http://www.justonemorebook.com/2007/05/14/interview-with-mo-willems/   (audio)
School Library Journal - http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6304810.html   (video)

Recensioni :
Publishers' Weekly - http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/44415-mo-willems-on-knuffle-bunny-free-.html  
100 Scopenotes - http://100scopenotes.com/2010/09/07/review-knuffle-bunny-free/  
The Seattle Times - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2013051230_kidsbooksmowilliems02.html?syndication=rss
Flying Giggles and Lollipops - http://www.flyinggigglesandlollipops.com/2010/10/knuffle-bunny-free-giveaway.html
Brimful Curiosities - http://www.brimfulcuriosities.com/2010/09/knuffle-bunny-free-by-mo-willems-book.html
Two Writing Teachers - http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/knuffle3/
Script PS News - http://www.scrippsnews.com/content / corner-mo-Willems-knuffle-bunny-free-country-city-dog-frog


still remains in America with:

13 Words, by Lemony Snicket, illustrations by Maira Kalman, HarperCollins, October 5, 2010

13 Words is born of the new Lemony Snicket, aka Daniel Handler (author, screenwriter and accordionist) and Maira Kalman (famous illustrator and designer and cover artist for New Yorker )! Already it seems to me enough. The story you ask? What story? There is a story, there are only thirteen of the following words:

1. Bird Bird
= 2. Despondent depressed
= 3. Cake = Cake
4. Dog = Cane
5. Busy = Impegnato
6. Convertible = Decappottabile
7. Goat = Capra
8. Hat = Cappello
9. Haberdashery = Merceria
10. Scarlet = Scarlatto
11. Baby = Bambino
12. Panache = Stile
13. Mezzo-Soprano

Cosa ci fanno queste tredici parole insieme? Non posso dirvelo, svelerei segreti inconfessabili, e vi rovinerei la sorpresa!

Unico contentino che vi posso concedere è il trailer del libro:

Per curiosità su autore ed illustratore :
Lemony Snicket - Sito http://www.lemonysnicket.com/
Maira Kalman - Sito  http://www.mairakalman.com/
 
Interviste con Lemony Snicket :
Parent Dish - http://www.parentdish.com/2010/10/05/lemony-snicket-gets-persnickety-with-pdish/
Browse Inside: http://browseinside.harpercollinschildrens.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061664656  
About Creativity - http://about-creativity.com/2007/06/an-interview-with-daniel-handler-aka-lemony-snicket-part-1.php  
About.com - http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/interviews/a/lemony.htm
The Telegraph UK - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/7157019/Lemony-Snicket-Interview.html
The Washington Post, Kids' Stuff - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901307.html
Book Browse - http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=500
Combustible Celluliod - http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/interviews/danielhandler.shtml
Biografia: http://www.answers.com/topic/lemony-snicket

Interviste con Maira Kalman:
Inspiration Boards - http://inspirationboards.blogspot.com/2008/03/maira-kalman.html
Design Sponge - http://www.designspongeonline.com/2010/10/whats-in-your-toolbox-maira-kalman.html
The Design Files - http://thedesignfiles.net/2008/03/maira-kalman/
Bygone Bureau - http://bygonebureau.com/2009/09/07/the-life-pursuit-an-interview-with-maira-kalman/
Nash Ville Review - http://www.vanderbilt.edu/english/nashvillereview/archives/1305
10 Answers - http://10answers.net/2010/10/06/maira-kalman/

Recensioni :
Flavor Pill - http://flavorpill.com/sanfrancisco/events/2010/9/29/maira-kalman-and-lemony-snicket-13-words ;
SFGate.com - http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-09-26/books/24097018_1_trade-books-lemony-snicket-schwartz-wade
TimeOut Kids - http://newyorkkids.timeout.com/articles/books/89124/13-words-by-lemony-snicket-and-maira-kalman-book-review


And now that we have, we conclude our imaginary journey in the States:

A Sick Day for Amos McGee, Philip C. Stead, illustrations by Erin E. Stead, A Neal Porter Book / Roaring Brook Press , May 2010

surreal comedy of the story of Amos McGee, guardian of the City Zoo, a friend of the shy penguin, elephant, turtle, rhinoceros, and the owl. Amos is a careful guardian, each animal receives his attention, his care: play chess with the Elephant, compete with the Turtle, so he sits next to the penguin, and rhinoceros to blow your nose at sunset tells fairy tales to the owl. All proceeds in an orderly fashion until, one morning, Amos wakes up sick. So what? Then the animals in the City Zoo are taking the bus and go to visit him, to take care of him. Surreal comedy, but also of friendship, of that kind of friendship where we take care of each other without having to say much more: I remember when, two years ago, I made a bad ankle and my friend Frank came home, laid the table with care, a delicious lunch cooked for me (who knows Frank knows that this is an exceptional act) and kept me company twittering happy home. What else is friendship?
The curious thing about this book is that author and illustrator are husband and wife, and apparently share more than just a roof: the result of two creativity and empathy can see, this story is told with great sensitivity and harmony, with a careful balance between the narrated and what is not said. As observed by Betsy Bird, in his A Fuse # 8 Production Blog , there is a wise balance in the script between the first and second parts of the book. Alongside the main story so many little details in the background, almost invisible, which enrich the story on tiptoe. Illustrations Erin E. Stead are amazing and for the characterization that the delicacy that transmit sensitive eye of a range of emotions that you can not say with words. A book not to be missed!

Here are the sites of Philip and Erin Stead : Philip
Setad - Site http://www.philipstead.com/
Erin Stead - Blog http://blog.erinstead.com/

Interviews :
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1723

Reviews :
The New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/books/review/VonDrasek-t.html
A Fuse#8 Production - http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8production/2010/04/07/review-of-the-day-a-sick-day-for-amos-mcgee-by-philip-c-stead/
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1950
Kids Lit - http://kidslit.menashalibrary.org/2010/05/07/sick-day-for-amos-mcgee/
SC Whiddon Art - http://scwhiddonart.blogspot.com/2010/06/illustrator-erin-e-stead.html


In a fine article entitled Dogs and Reading Untrained Boys , Lisa Von Drasek, analyzes the columns of the New York Times of two picture books of which I have just spoken vo: A Sick Day for McGee Amos and Boys Make Terrible Pets , emphasizing The irony, of the comedy of the absurd, with a touch of inconsistency that never gets old, even the umpteenth reading.

Some of the books cui vo ho parlato appaiono nella selezione  New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2010 : http://events.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2010/best-illustrated-childrens-books-2010/list.html .

Per ora è tutto, passo e chiudo!




* "I bambini sono dei pessimi animali domestici".