Friday Links List and Illustrators' Treehouse News - 31 January 2020


From Brightly: 11 Books About Kindness for Kids Ages 3-5

From The Guardian: Children's and teens roundup: the best new picture books and novels

From EW: Who's the star of the Hunger Games prequel? Read the exclusive first excerpt

From the University of Glasgow: Call for Papers for the first OUTLANDER CONFERENCE

From SLJ: We Need Diverse Books Names 2020 Walter Dean Myers Award Winners Also, Reese Witherspoon Seeks Book Club Librarian-in-Residence

From PW: WI15: Cummins Speaks, Booksellers Divided on 'American Dirt'

From The Bookseller: Peter Riley wins Profile Aitken Alexander Non-Fiction Prize

From Nathan Bransford: What does it mean to be your "real self" online?, also What is a character arc?

From SLJ's Fuse #8: Cover Reveal (and Excerpt!): Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story) by Daniel Nayeri

From Library Journal: Missouri Bill Proposes Parental Review Board for "Age-Inappropriate" Material, Legal Penalties for Noncompliance

From The Bookseller: McDougall joins S&S Children's from HarperCollins as creative director (UK)

From Nathan Bransford: My plot framework

From ChronicleVitae: Scholars Talk Writing and The (Not-So-)Secret Way to Attract Majors to Your Department

From Bookshelf: Rubook bookcase




THE ILLUSTRATORS' TREEHOUSE NEWS
THREE COMPETITIONS OPEN THIS WEEK! THEY ARE:
THE 3X3 ILLUSTRATION SHOWS No.17 - click to enter, and the
SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS and the
KEY COLOURS COMPETITION
and Muddy Colors is offering a scholarship - a free booth at the next Spectrum Fantasy Art Symposium. Don't know what Spectrum is? CLICK HERE!


From PW: THE AWARDS ARE IN! Craft, Kadir, King Win Newbery, Caldecott, Printz

From Heroes Aren't Hard to Find: The annual Charlotte Mini-Con is coming up on February 7th, featuring Sanford Greene, Adam Hughes, and Brian Stelfreeze

From Muddy Colors: 12 Problems Artists Have With Making Effective Compositions - This is GOOD - a must read! Also, This is What You Want, This is What You Get and 5 YEARS OF DEAR ART DIRECTOR (Links to GREAT articles!) One more: "Goblin Ambush!"

From the National Parks Arts Foundation: New residencies available! (Get a paid vacation to paint!)

From ChildrensIllustrators.com: January Newsletter packed with good info!

From the Bologna Children's Book Fair: 2020 Selected Illustrators

From Hire an Illustrator: The Results Are IN! Here is the State of Illustration 2019

Carowinds Kaman's Art Shoppes is hiring for the summer! These are the folks who do caricatures and t-shirt painting.

From SLJ: Books on Film: How Picture Books are Illustrated with Soyeon Kim


From The Guardian: Every Studio Ghibli film - ranked!

From The Art Room Plant: Paula Metcalf

and
Brian Wildsmith


OFF-TOPIC BUT INTERESTING
From Joe Jacobi: Deep Work Math - a new way to look at goal setting

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