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School Library Journal: STARRED REVIEW Gr 1-4–As the American Revolution was getting underway, George Washington knew he needed cannons to defeat the British. Unfortunately, he was camped outside British-held Boston, and the nearest big guns were 300 miles away at Fort Ticonderoga, New York. They were thought to be impossible to retrieve, until Henry Knox [...]

Junior Library Guild Selection for America is Under Attack.

For sometime I’ve believed the future of ebooks was not fiction but non-fiction. In a carefully considered article in Salon, Laura Miller makes the same argument. But they are expensive endeavors, requiring the contributions of many talented people – illustrators, animators, photographers, videographers, and interface architects to make a good one. I’m convinced the economic model [...]

Each year a committee of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best of the best in children’s books. According to the Notables Criteria, “notable” is defined as: Worthy of note or notice, important, distinguished, outstanding. As applied to children’s books, notable should be thought to include books of especially commendable quality, [...]

My interview with All Things Considered host Sacha Pfeiffer about America Is Under Attack! can be read  or listened to.

The Society of Illustrators Annual Show/Illustrators 54 is up. Displayed now is Sequential-Series Art and Moving Images. Book and Editorial Art opens February 3, 2012. The Society of Illustrators is located at: 128 East 63rd Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues) New York, NY 10065 Tel: (212) 838-2560 Fax: (212) 838-2561 E-Mail: info@societyillustrators.org  Gallery Hours: 10 [...]

Ronald Searle died December 30, 2011 at 91. Searle was a brilliant cartoonist and one of the great draftsmen of the 20th Century, a genius whose artistic influence is incalculable. He was born in the UK in 1920. At the start of the Second World War he joined the British Army and was shipped the [...]