Friday Links List & Illustrators' Treehouse News - 18 September 2020


EVENT: World Kid Lit Month Kicks Off with Virtual Celebration: September 30th

From Shelf-Awareness: National Book Foundation Honoring Walter Mosley

From Brightly: Must-Read Picture Books Written by Black Authors

The New Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic launched Wednesday with a keynote from Ellen Kushner and other noted Fantasy experts. You can watch it HERE.

From The Horn Book:
     John Rocco Talks with Roger about HOW WE GOT TO THE MOON
     Children's Books and Contradictions

From EAB: Is your institution prepared for Election Day? EAB’s advice on urgent to dos for institutional leaders

From SLJ:
     2020 National Book Award Longlist Announced!
     Story Books to Help Kids Get Smart About Voting

From Library Journal: Explore the World with Virtual Travel

From Forbes: 9 Children’s Books Recommended By Children’s Bookstores For Fall 2020

From CNN (via PW Children's Bookshelf): Black lives matter in children's books, too. That's why this couple started a nonprofit CNN Special Projects Portraits Amy Chillag

From HuffPost: 17 Children's Books To Help Kids Navigate Life During A Pandemic

From PW:
     Remembering Tomie dePaola
     HBG Releases Diversity and Inclusion Progress Report
     2020 CBC Diversity Award Winners Announced

Watch this adorable book trailer for SKUNK & BADGER written by Amy Timberlake and illustrated by Jon Klassen



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 CommArts: Designing Bilingual Lettering

Do you know about Industrial Designer: Giulio Iacchetti? It's fun to look at his creations!

From HarperCollins: Join HarperCollins Children's Books's crowdcast launch for their new Graphic Novel imprint: Harper Alley

From Print and Pattern: Virtual Blue Print - view samples online (this is one of the industry's big trade shows)

From Muddy Colors:
     JESPER EJSING: ACRYLIC PAINTING TUTORIAL Cool!
     The Sketchbook Series
     Morphic Pool world-building painting walk-through

From Mark Manson (via Muddy Colors): Screw Finding Your Passion

From Folklore Magazine: Virtual Special Issue: Dragons

From Make Art That Sells: Meet Vanessa Brantley-Newton in our FREE video series: Introducing Live with Lilla

From The Federation of Children's Book Groups: The Klaus Flugge Prize at Five

From Presto Sketching: Easy ways to show more diversity in your sketches

From Myth and Moor:
     The Faerie Art of Brian and Wendy Froud
     We Are Storytelling Animals

From The Art Room Plant: Anna Subauer




OFF TOPIC BUT INTERESTING
From St. Louis Public Radio: Are Schools That Shield Coronavirus Data Interpreting HIPAA Correctly?

From the BBC: Edinburgh University renames David Hume Tower over 'racist' views

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: Diversity without Dollars

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