Friday Links List and Illustrators' Treehouse News


From ShelfAwareness: Bookseller's Query Brings Children's Classic Back Into Print

From Entertainment: The 10 Best YA Books of the Year

From Slate: The Decade in Young Adult Fiction (Interesting!)

From Eerdlings: 16 Beautiful Picture Books with Poems for Kids

The Paper I Quoted in my TEDx Talk: A wonderful life: experiential consumption and the pursuit of happiness by Thomas Gilovich

From PW: Publishers Brace for California Labor Law Changes (One of my publishers is quoted.)

From NPR: Kids' Books To Read Again, And Again, And Again, And Again, And Again, And ...

From The Guardian: 'Ridiculously hard': how Neil Gaiman wrote a poem for refugees from 1,000 tweets

From ChronicleVitae: Do You Truly Grasp Why That Student Keeps Missing Class?

From Claudia Mills' An Hour a Day: Waiting for a Plot Twist in My Life - worth the read!

From Writer Unboxed: Notes on Writer Dreams, Gratitude, and the Anxiety of Authenticity

From SLJ: Reshaping the African American Narrative, from Picture Books to YA | Great Books

Slightly off-topic, but interesting nonetheless!
From The Guardian: What could the US afford if it raised billionaires' taxes? We do the math

From The Good News Network: Top 10 Most Exciting Environmental Stories From 2019 Raise Hope for An Eco-Friendly Year Ahead

From Brightly: Our Favorite Books of the Decade and The Best Children’s and YA Books of December 2019



THE ILLUSTRATORS' TREEHOUSE NEWS
Communication Arts is holding their 2020 Illustration Competition (deadline for entries is in January!)

From ICON: Illustration Academy Call for Entries for Scholarships

From World Illustration Awards: Call for Entries (February deadline)

From Pip Illustration: Ben the Illustrator is holding his annual Illustration Survey - I did it, will you?

From Eye on Design: We’ve been blown away by the responses to our open call inviting designers to anonymously share their salary via the Graphic Design Salary Transparency spreadsheet. CLICK HERE to see it!

From the #BookMarkProject: Authors and Illustrators we would love you to doodle us a bookmark for the 2020 #BookmarkProject auction for Katiyo Primary School in Zimbabwe.

From The Art Room Plant: Einar Nerman


From HOW: HOW Design Live - registration now open!

From Eliza Wheeler: ‘Home In The Woods’ book video—PROCESS

From Myth and Moor: Stories Lean on Stories With artwork by my colleague and golden-age illustrator, Ruth Sanderson

Check out Jennifer M. Potter's website for great ideas of how to present categories via her agent Lilla Rogers

From GoodNewsNetwork: This City billboard Has Been Designed to Purify the Surrounding Air By Eating Up Smog

From Muddy Colors: A Studio Visit (Robert Hunt's Oil-painting studio - worth your time!)

From CommArts: For those who worked on the collage project... Turner Classic Movies animations


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