Mathew Tobinさんのイラストまとめ

Another favourite writer of Maurice Sendak was William Blake. 'The Songs of Innocence and Experience' tell you all about this: what it is to be a child - not childish, but a child inside your adult self - and how much better a person you are for being such.'

Sendak: In the Night Kitchen 'When I was a child there was an advertisement which I remember very clearly. It was for Sunshine Bakers. [It] read 'We Bake While You Sleep!' It seemed to me the most sadistic thing in the world, because all I wanted to do was stay up & watch.'

Sendak: 'They are the same child, of course. Kenny is frustrated & introverted; Martin is fussy and sulking; Max is tremendously brave but in a rage and Mickey is extremely brave and very happy...In the characters, there is a kind of progress from holding back to coming forth'

Today I will still be marking whilst listening to my little playlist on Spotify. I use it a lot whilst reading and researching too. Still pandering to my love of high fantasy...

https://t.co/BICoLqjmYm

Maurice Sendak (1970):
'I believe there's no part of our lives, our adult as well as child's life, when we're not fantasising, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young.'

Just to say that @ChinneryEmma artwork is beautiful. I look forward to seeing their work in children's books!

There's something deeply Moominesque about this series, @carlesporta1 @lawrenceschimel (Lawrence, I love the gentle lyricism you bring to the narrative). Thank you @FlyingEyeBooks for bringing these stories to UK shores.

I'm wrapping my head around this wonderful sentence:

'Yes,' yawned Penelope, bored, looking at a picture of a lady's dolman with bugled ruching'

Those last six words...'bugled ruching'

If anyone can show me a lady's dolmen with bugled ruching...

#JoanAikenAppreciation

This is Jenny Uglow and I am madly in love with her work.

@calmgrove @LizzaAiken @one_to_read That I did not know. How wonderful. Have you read this by Jenny Uglow - it's excellent