Friday Links List and Illustrators' Treehouse News - 24 July 2020


From the NYTimes: Joanna Cole, Who Imagined Fantastical Bus Rides, Dies at 75 Her “Magic School Bus” children’s books were wild, and wildly popular. They were also educational.

From SheKnows.com: 19 Children’s Books Featuring Boys of Color

From Insider.com: 15 authors who published best-selling books when they were teenagers

From PW:
     Maine Declares Ashley Bryan Day
     How #PublishingPaidMe Exposed Racial Inequities

From The Bookseller: WGGB calls for £20m support package for Scottish writers

From SLJ:
     17 Magical and Mind-Bending Sci-Fi & Fantasy Titles for Teens | Summer Reading 2020
     The Goodnight Moon Parody Industrial Complex Funny!

From Claudia Mills' An Hour a Day: The Post-Book-Revision Blues

From Brightly: Happily Ever After: 21 Multicultural Fairy Tales to Delight Every Child and Teen

From The Guardian:
     Gender gap in children's reading grew in UK lockdown – survey
     Michael Rosen: ‘The incredible NHS saved my life’

From Main Point Books on FB: a mini bookstore display


From Bookshelf:
     Tiny replica of New York rare bookseller’s gallery
     Bookwheel


From BookBub: 10 New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books with Nearly Perfect Reviews



ILLUSTRATORS' TREEHOUSE NEWS
From SLJ: Graphic Novels for Armchair Campers | Stellar Panels

From PictureBookMakers: Axel Scheffler (on the making of The Gruffalo)

For My Fairy Tales Class students:
From Seven Miles of Steel Thistles: Strong Fairytale Heroines: A Series

From Myth and Moor:
     Animal Brides & Bridegrooms (with gorgeous illustrations!)
     Selkies: the accommodation of paradox

On Youtube: Comics 101: How to Get into Comics

From Inspiremore.com: Siblings Team Up To Virtually Travel World Through Incredible Chalk Art.

From DiamondBooks: A Unique and Brain-Twisting Comedic Tale that Play with the Tropes and "Rules" of Sequential Art

From the NYTimes: Watch All the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Shows All the presentations for Paris couture, in one place.

From CommArts: Building Brands with Augmented Reality

From Muddy Colors:
     ON ART CAREERS AND PRICING
     Drawing Like You Mean It - one of the best articles I've ever read on Muddy Colors!

From Publishers Weekly: The Fanatic Graphic Novel Newsletter

From Random House Graphic: Monthly Newsletter on Graphic Novels

Have you read Digger by Ursula Vernon? It's all online.

Do you know about SNAAP: Strategic National Arts Alumni Project Tracking the lives and careers of arts graduates

From Children's Illustrators.com: monthly newsletter with features and interviews

A good friend has started Campus to Career - career coaching for recent graduates. I recommend her!

From AIGA:
     The Design Collective Taking on Structural Racism in the Industry
     Questioning the Canon: Diversity in Graphic Design History

For Moomin Fans: 'Tove' - first trailer for biopic of Moomins creator Tove Jansson



OFF TOPIC BUT INTERESTING
From NPR: 'Me And White Supremacy' Helps You Do The Work Of Dismantling Racism

From Claudia Mills' An Hour a Day: When Your Students Are Smarter Than You Are

From Inside Higher Ed: Yes, Your Zoom Teaching Can Be First-Rate

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