Friday Links List and Illustrators' Treehouse News - 11 September 2020


From Brightly: Books Like Percy Jackson: 14 Super Series to Read Next

From HuffPost: There Are Lots Of COVID-19 Children's Books Now. Here's A Selection.

From The Bookseller: Barbara Marcus to headline Bookseller Children’s Conference

From SLJ:
     17 Middle Grade and YA Books That Spotlight #BlackJoy

An important study came out this week: The Economic Impacts of Learning Losses

From Time: I Let My Child Create Their Own Gender Identity. The Experience Has Been a Gift for Us Both Can we reflect this in our books going forward?

From Bookshelf: Bird library bookshelf (with a live webcam!)

From We Need Diverse Books: The Fully Booked Conference 2021 Mentors Opens October 1 - 31st

From Kickstarter: Interview with Jane Yolen and Peter Tacy (her new/old beau)

From the Jewish Book Council: ‘Fairy-Tale Log­ic’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Alice Hoffman

On Instagram: Follow the History teacher who hit the road to teach her students online from the actual historical locations!

From The New Statesman: Why Goodreads is Bad for Books



ILLUSTRATORS' TREEHOUSE NEWS
EVENT: The State of Black Design Friday, September 18, 2020, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT, FREE

EVENT: Lightbox is free this year! - Click here to read more about it and see an interview with Bobby Chiu

EVENT: Adobe Max The Creativity Conference, October 20–22 FREE!

PARTICIPATE: AIGA VOTE Campaign

From Myth and Moor:
     The Mythic Art of Alan Lee
     The cauldron of dreams

From the US National Parks Service: Open Artist Residencies (especially in Hawaii)

From Muddy Colors:
     GUSTAV KLIMT: COMPLETE PAINTINGS BOOK REVIEW with Howard Lyon
     10 THINGS…MIXING COLOR with Greg Manchess
     MAGICAL MOBILE STUDIO TOUR with Justin Gerard
     ART… IFICIAL SELECTION with Chris Beatrice

From Children's Illustrators.com: September Newsletter with features and interviews

Are you familiar with the work of Charly Palmer? He was interviewed at CommArts

From Make Art That Sells: September Newsletter

From The Art Room Plant: Kristina Ovsyankina




OFF TOPIC BUT INTERESTING
From ASU GSV Summit: The Dawn of the Age of Digital Learning Sep 29 - Oct 1, 7 & 8, 2020 - a FREE conference with some amazing speakers: General Colin Powell, Malcolm Gladwell, Gloria Steinem, Bill Nye, etc...

How cool is this? It's basically Google Maps, Street View but from the 1940s: Street View of 1940s New York

From The EAB: How the Elections Could Impact Higher Ed

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