Welcome back to EBYR All Over, a Friday roundup of all the EBYR-related news, reviews, interviews, and other interesting online content we can gather in a given week.
New Releases
The Yes
By Sarah Bee
Illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura
News from Eerdmans & Elsewhere
- The Yes, published in the U.S. on Monday, was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal last week and praised as “remarkable for its wit and freshness.”
- Red (coming March 9), was featured in the “Early 2015 Picture Books Preview” on Minh Le’s Huffington Post blog. Le says that “De Kinder’s intense artwork packs an emotional punch,” and that few books on children’s bullying “are this adept at capturing [its] organic nature.” He also includes this stunning illustration from the book:
- The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch, by Chris Barton and illustrated by Don Tate, earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly. The book was also featured in the Nonfiction Picture Books 10 for 10 list on the Two Writing Teachers blog, which profiled both the book itself and how it can be used to teach the craft of writing to young students.
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John Jensen Feels Different Torill Kove, illustrator of John Jensen Feels Different, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film for Me and My Moulton. This is her third nomination; she was first nominated in 1999 for My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts, and she won an Oscar in 2006 for The Danish Poet. Good luck, Torill!
- I Lay My Stitches Down, by Cynthia Grady and illustrated by Michele Wood, was included in Betsy Bird’s African-American Literary Experience Reference Guide on her Fuse #8 Production blog.
- The Cynsations blog featured our Coffee Break Episode on Illustrations from the “How a Book Becomes a Book” series (affectionately known as {HaBBaB} here) in their “Cynsational Screening Room” post.
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