Tag: picture books
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Picture book history
Lots of authors write memoirs and autobiographies. Some of these are even aimed at children–Beverly Cleary’s A Girl From Yamhill comes to mind. But how many authors write a picture book memoir? Earlier this summer, I ran across a mention of William Steig’s When Everybody Wore a Hat on Melissa Wiley’s blog. Steig is best…
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From my archive. . .
Over the last few months, I’ve been going through my old blog and converting it into a readable word document. It’s a huge project, and perhaps silly, but I’m a historian so I want to preserve this bit of my own history. At any rate, tonight I ran across the following post about a top-notch Christmas…
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The other Little House
Certain picture books from my childhood firmly planted roots in my mind. Are You My Mother? Laurie and the Yellow Curtains, Lady (an adaptation of Disney’s Lady and the Tramp) And then there’s Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House. I remember gazing at Burton’s wonderful illustrations and her wonderfully personified house. I always felt so…
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