Friday Links List and Illustrators' Treehouse News - 6 December 2019


From ElectricLit: Shopping For a Boy? Give Him a Book About a Girl

From SLJ: Report: High Schoolers' Lack of Digital Literacy Skills Is "Troubling"

From PW ShelfTalker: More than one kind of Rock Star: From Mick Jagger to Susan Cooper

From The Independent: Children who own books six times more likely to read above expected level, survey finds

From SLJ: For Freedoms | Empowering Teens in Election Season

From Dr Dimitra Fimi: The Otherworld Sea Voyage of St Brendan in Modern Fantasy Literature

From The Guardian: Best science fiction and fantasy books of 2019

From Nathan Bransford: Give the gift of writing!



THE ILLUSTRATORS' TREEHOUSE NEWS
CALA: Comic Arts Los Angeles, Dec. 7 & 8th

Afraid of public speaking? Check out THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK: A TEEN GUIDE TO GREAT PUBLIC SPEAKING

From The Guardian: Where the magic happens: children's illustrators open up their studios - in pictures

From CommArts: For those who just finished the collage project, check out the NEMO Science Museum campaign! also
Hush: Physical spaces become the canvas for this Brooklyn-based experience design firm's dynamic, data-driven visualizations.

From The Lemonade Illustration Agency: Portfolio Day for Illustrators, Dec 11th

From The Guardian: How life drawing helped me rediscover my capacity for empathy

From Muddy Colors: Process: The Cunning Man by Dan Dos Santos


From The Art Room Plant: More on Violeta Dabija and beautiful work by Chris Maynard


Do you know about FUTUREFONTS - 'Where Type Designers Sell Experimental Work In Progress'

The new Illustoria Story is out - learn more about it HERE

From Twitter: Over the next few weeks, students will get the chance to evaluate their professors and TAs. They're going to get it wrong. They'll be harder on women and people of color than on white men. Tenured white male faculty, in particular, should help their students understand this. 1/8

From Muddy Colors: Dealing with Color Blindness as an Artist

From SCBWI British Isles: WRITERS' MINDS Sarah McIntyre - Creator of #PicturesMeansBusiness

From Vox: An illustrated opinion piece on the use of Latinx: "You Say - Another mini comic by Terry Blas"

From SCBWI: The SCBWI BI Biennial Illustration exhibit 2019 "Pictures at Play"

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