Friday Links List and Illustrators' Treehouse News - 29 May 2020

From Cynsations: In Memory: Thomas Low, Co-Founder of Lee & Low Books also at PW: Obituary: Thomas Low
My picture book, The The Prince's Diary was with Lee & Low.

From NYT: A Feud in Wolf-Kink Erotica Raises a Deep Legal Question "What do copyright and authorship mean in the crowdsourced realm known as the Omegaverse?

From PW: Children's Books for an Election Year and 2020 Political Books for Children

From The UK: The Report of the Libraries' Public Lending Rights - why don't we have this in the US? We do it for music - a musician makes money every time their song is played. Whey don't authors and illustrators make money every time their book is checked out?

From "How Stuff Works": The Surprising Controversy Behind 'Mary Had a Little Lamb'

From TeachPal: FREE EBOOKS FOR CHILDREN

From Wired: Hey Kids! Read These Books on Your Very. Long. Summer "We've got suggestions for classics to rediscover, what to read if your brother is driving you nuts, plus ideas to help you process this whole Covid situation."

From BookRiot: 6 GREAT MULTICULTURAL CINDERELLA PICTURE BOOKS

From The Chronicle of Higher Education:
     How to Cope With Covid-19 Burnout
     On Not Drawing Conclusions About Online Teaching Now — or Next Fall

From 9to5Toys: Amazon is offering over 250 Scooby Doo eBooks for FREE right now

From FB Picturebook Scholars: Richard Scarry's WHAT DO PEOPLE DO ALL DAY? Covid-19 version

From Scholar Space: Is children’s literature as hard as scholarly articles about children’s literature? A comment on Macalister and Webb (2019)

From PW: J.K. Rowling Releases First Serialization of New Story Online - find it online HERE

From CNBC: ‘I think Amazon should start paying their taxes,’ Joe Biden says

From The Bookseller: Rosen out of intensive care after 47 days

From SLJ's Fuse #8:
     Could COVID-19 Mark the End of the Physical Galley? (I offered my thoughts in the comments)
     'Nestflix' and More Animal Webcams for Quarantined Kids

At FB: Great story prompt thread from Ellen Kushner based on an illustration by Will Coats



ILLUSTRATORS' TREEHOUSE NEWS

From FB: Watch this demo of Catherine Rayner drawing SOLOMON CROCODILE (Catherine is one of the best watercolor/ink illustrators in the business!

From TimeOut: The Eric Carle Museum's first virtual picture-book exhibit has original artwork

From the NYT: Scratch: An illustrated column about money - and the people who deal with it (great alternate application of illustration)

From The GoodNewsNetwork: World’s Largest Open-Air Gallery Was Painted By People With Learning Disabilities—And It’s Breathtaking

From Medium: A Coronavirus Picture Book Round-Up

From dPictus: the unpublished picture book showcase Go vote on these amazing books!

From The Guardian: The English towers and landmarks that inspired Tolkien's hobbit sagas

From The Art Room Plant:
     The Artwork of Chris Korobova

     Cut and Collage


From David Hillman on FB: Time lapsed video of a revised sketch for a spread page on the picture book i'm developing.

From Brain Pickings: Enormous Smallness: The Sweet Illustrated Story of E. E. Cummings and His Creative Bravery “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

From Muddy Colors:
     Filling the Cracks with Steven Belledin
     Our Painted Lives



OFF TOPIC BUT INTERESTING
From The Charlotte Observer: Voice finalist CammWess recalls Winthrop, Rock Hill influences on road to success

From Pretty Hard to Do: In lockdown while abroad

From The NYT: First Inklings of Fame "The class of 2020 has no idea what the future holds — and neither do we. Here’s a look back at some icons starting on their paths to renown."

From Parler Paris (one of my favorite newsletters by an American living in France): Why I Stayed in France (scroll down)

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