Today I talk shop about one of the latest, and most beautiful picture book biographies you would ever have the chance to see with its creators.
Bringing Unsung Heroes to Light: Talking about The People’s Painter with Cynthia Levinson and Evan Turk
April 19, 2021 by
A Thousand Glass Flowers Is Never Enough: An Interview with Evan Turk
September 10, 2020 by
Early Renaissance feminism? Evan Turk delves deep in a talk about that precise topic, as well as informational fiction, Venice, glassblowing, and the art of using oil pastels and colored pencils on top of vivid watercolors.
Book Trailer Reveal: Heartbeat by Evan Turk
April 26, 2018 by
Someday in the future, children’s literary scholars will specialize in fields like Historical Children’s Book Trailers. They will sift through a century or two’s worth of trailers, marking the significant changes, the highs, and the lows. And when they come to the late teens of this century, I hope that they’ll pause a moment and […]
Fusenews: Worth it, if only for the clock
July 13, 2016 by
Hi, folks. Haven’t done one of these in a while. Let’s see what there is to see. If I’m feeling nostalgic for NYC this week there’s little wonder. Whether it’s an article on many library branches’ secret apartments (I visited 8-10 of them in my day and someday a clever photographer should do a […]
Video Sunday: Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends
July 3, 2016 by
Aww. Didja miss these? It’s not like I see as many videos these days, y’know. Not for lack of interest. They just don’t float in front my nose the way they used to. Fortunately there are a couple that I’ve collected in my travels and I’m featuring them here today. They may be a bit […]
Fusenews: Who are we to say?
March 22, 2016 by
We’re diving right in today. Check out this killer poster: Now if you’re one of the lucky ducks living in NYC, or will be there on the date of 4/16, you now have your marching orders. This is an event held at Bank Street College of Education and in wracking my brains I can’t think […]
Review of the Day: The Storyteller by Evan Turk
March 2, 2016 by
The Storyteller By Evan Turk Atheneum (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) $24.99 ISBN: 9781481435185 Ages 4-8 On shelves June 28th Credit the internet age for doing what the television age never could. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there is a movement around the world that can be interpreted as nothing so much […]
Review of the Day: Grandfather Gandhi by Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus
April 8, 2014 by
Grandfather Gandhi Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus Illustrated by Evan Turk Atheneum (an imprint of Simon and Schuster) $17.99 ISBN: 978-1-4424-2365-X Ages 4-8 On shelves now. Are you familiar with the concept of booktalking? It’s a technique librarians developed to get people interested in books they might otherwise not pick up. The whole concept is […]
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