Lola Loves Stories — Perfect Picture Book Friday
Title: Lola Loves Stories Author: Anna McQuinn Illustrator: Rosalind Beardshaw Publisher: Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2010 (First published in the UK by Alanna Books in 2009, as Lulu Loves Stories.)
Perfect Picture Book Fridays
The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse — Perfect Picture Book Friday
Title: The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse Author/Illustrator: Eric Carle Publisher: New York: Penguin/Philomel, 2011 Genre: Picture book, fiction, homage to artist Franz Marc
The Art Collector — Perfect Picture Book Friday
Title: The Art Collector Author: Jan Wahl Illustrator: Rosalinde Bonnet Publisher: Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2011
The Black Book of Colors — Perfect Picture Book Friday
Title: The Black Book of Colors Author: Menena Cottin Illustrator: Rosana Faria Translator: Elisa Amado (the book was originally published in Spanish) Publisher: Toronto/Berkeley: Groundwood/House of Anansi, 2006.
X is for … X-fade (and it’s Perfect Picture Book Friday!)
How does one fade an X, you ask? X-fade is theatre shorthand for crossfade, a lighting direction to gradually bring up a new lighting scheme to replace the one in use in the scene currently, thus “fading” across from one sort of light to another. Today, we’re crossfading. We’re shifting the spotlight from the previous …
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R is for Roundy-Round (and it’s Perfect Picture Book Friday)
Roundy-round? Here we go round the mulberry bush? “Round, like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel”? Not exactly. Roundy-round is a filming technique in which the camera moves slowly around the subject, giving the viewer a 360 degree look at what is being filmed. It’s a technique that Blake Edwards …
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L is for… the Love of Music — Perfect Picture Book Friday
My Love of music goes back a long way. When I was studying voice with the wonderful woman I spotlighted in D is for… Dorothy, she had me learn a song called “Songs My Mother Taught Me.” (That song is guaranteed to turn the hardest heart to mush.) Indeed, the songs my mother taught me …
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F is for … First Ballet — Perfect Picture Book Friday
As stated in my first A-to-Z post, I intend to continue my usual posts while keeping to the letter of the day. So today, F is for the picture book entitled First Ballet. (And there is a bonus book, as well!) Click to read more…