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A short history of the toy book: Walter Crane a...
In 1864, a nineteen-year-old Walter Crane began illustrating sixpenny toy books for Edmund Evans and quietly changed the way the world thought about pictures made for children. This is how...
A short history of the toy book: Walter Crane a...
In 1864, a nineteen-year-old Walter Crane began illustrating sixpenny toy books for Edmund Evans and quietly changed the way the world thought about pictures made for children. This is how...
Twelve Canadian picture books that grown-ups qu...
Some picture books earn their place on the adult shelf as much as the child's. Here are twelve Canadian titles we keep reaching for long after the kids are asleep.
Twelve Canadian picture books that grown-ups qu...
Some picture books earn their place on the adult shelf as much as the child's. Here are twelve Canadian titles we keep reaching for long after the kids are asleep.
The eldritch tradition: notes on writing for ch...
Children have always wanted to be a little frightened, and the best picture-book makers have always known it. A look at the long tradition of dark, strange, and usefully unsettling...
The eldritch tradition: notes on writing for ch...
Children have always wanted to be a little frightened, and the best picture-book makers have always known it. A look at the long tradition of dark, strange, and usefully unsettling...
Why picture books are 32 pages: a story of fold...
The 32-page picture book is not an editorial opinion or a child-development consensus. It is a consequence of how paper folds, and that consequence goes back further than Gutenberg. Here's...
Why picture books are 32 pages: a story of fold...
The 32-page picture book is not an editorial opinion or a child-development consensus. It is a consequence of how paper folds, and that consequence goes back further than Gutenberg. Here's...
How Toronto ended up with the world's best coll...
On the fourth floor of a Toronto library sits a 4,000-year-old tablet, 90,000 children's books, and the legacy of two librarians who made it all happen.
How Toronto ended up with the world's best coll...
On the fourth floor of a Toronto library sits a 4,000-year-old tablet, 90,000 children's books, and the legacy of two librarians who made it all happen.
krumpp in the news
A few weeks ago, author/ illustrator Magic Mike sat down with UTSC news' Alexa Battler for a conversation about his new picture book, Krumpp's First Taste...
krumpp in the news
A few weeks ago, author/ illustrator Magic Mike sat down with UTSC news' Alexa Battler for a conversation about his new picture book, Krumpp's First Taste...