At today, the 2022 Robin Smith Picture Book Prize and its beautiful new seal/sticker, created by Robin's daughter, Julie Schneider, and her friend Cristina Gomez. The award is five years old now, but the seal is new! More here: https://t.co/9mtyNfZnJs.

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The bloggers take a look at the impact that illustrator has had on the legacy of the Award: https://t.co/A3NdBmykTF

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on Peter Sís's "Nicky & Vera" (), which "employs his characteristic maps, mazes, graphic borders, stamps, + circles...in a story about a border-crossing, document-forging, labyrinthine wartime rescue effort." https://t.co/8r59ICxaYA

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Dean Schneider on 's "Bear Island" /: "What a rich reading experience a magnificent PB can be. Cordell’s illus. + text work beautifully together, w/ so much story + emotion related in the illus." https://t.co/3bHx3fm3Rp

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on Patricia MacLachlan + 's "Prairie Days" (): "Poetry + picture come together to create a bk that provides children w/ a 'visual experience' that's altogether mesmerizing + worthy of the https://t.co/8n8fRBzIhd

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Rachel Payne on David Elliott + Rob Dunlavey's "In the Woods": "What I admire is that Dunlavey’s work breathes. Illus. is a static art form, but a talented artist offers the illusion that the creatures could start moving at any minute." https://t.co/yvWiHUbiKA

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on + 's "Outside In" (), which "particularly nails the criterion of 'appropriateness of style of illustration to the story, theme or concept.'" https://t.co/kkPn3SxCAv

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ICYMI: on suspension of disbelief, + "Flamer": "I usually hesitate to announce an opinion before I've written the review...but 's 'Flamer' really took over my weekend + my imagination, + I'd recommend it widely." https://t.co/8EKDKM3mOV

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At Elissa Gershowitz writes that what Raúl the Third does in the illustrations for ¡VAMOS!: LET'S GO THE MARKET, as well as "the cumulative effect the illustrations have," is nothing short of "spectacular." -- https://t.co/VJwO4DTkR7

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"We ... see that the children in these illustrations resist sameness, the commonly held assumption that Indigenous people all look a certain way." Emily Prabhaker visits to write about FRY BREAD, ill. by Juana Martinez-Neal: https://t.co/rhM08bxV58.

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GO! GO! Pedal to the metal. GO READ Martha Parravano's post on VROOM! "Barbara McClintock's VROOM! is one of my favorite picture books of 2019 for very young children," she writes. https://t.co/17uerfmSvc

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At today, Hillary Saxton on Kyle Lukoff’s WHEN AIDAN BECAME A BROTHER. Hillary likes the tenderness, soft colors, and playful details of Kaylani Juanita's illustrations -- plus some. More here: https://t.co/3JYqZ9jiK7.

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CaldeComics, Part One by Alec Chunn : Following This One Summer's lead, which comic will be the next to get some Caldecott love? https://t.co/kMFQn6JumE

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Jules looks at some picture books published in (and around) April that are on our radar https://t.co/UzqHP4YbwU

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No mistake about it: has much love for THE BOOK OF MISTAKES at 's https://t.co/huPtVGE450

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