Rachel Blier

Nov 28, 2023 | hbook.com | Elisa Gall |Jonathan Hunt |Brian Wilson |Rachel Blier

Today on Calling Caldecott, a conversation between Elisa Gall and Jonathan Hunt about folklore and the Caldecott Award. (This is an entry in their "why-the-hell" Calling Caldecott series.

Nov 21, 2023 | hbook.com | Brian Wilson |Rachel Blier |Julie Hakim Azzam

For the past several years, I have run a mock Caldecott program for first to eighth graders at my public library. For each contending book, I lead the children through an “art walk” during which we talk about the images and how they tell the story. This leads to some intriguing conversations, with the observant students noticing things that we adults have not.

Nov 16, 2023 | hbook.com | Kitty Flynn |Rachel Blier |Julie Hakim Azzam |Dean Schneider

The 2023 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books is out! Here is a list of the ten books:How to Write a Poem, written by Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido; illustrated by Melissa Sweet Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!, written by Tonya Bolden and illustrated by R.

Nov 14, 2023 | hbook.com | Julie Hakim Azzam |Dean Schneider |Marva Hinton |Rachel Blier

At first glance, In the Night Garden by Carin Berger reads as a lyrical good-night book with what appear to be digitally created collage illustrations, using scanned papers and found objects to add texture to the artist’s crisply drawn shapes. A second look at the art — and at the book’s front matter — reveals that every star and flower and curling vine is, in fact, hand-assembled cut-paper collage, so clean and precise that I mistook it for machine work.