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Substack, the online platform that is garnering more followers and users every day, is a great place to read about children’s books and the people who make them. Substack is basically a blog post site where you can publish newsletters, podcasts and other content and build your own subscription-based audience.
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Looking at Picture Books is a Substack about how picture books work, made by two award-winning, bestselling children’s book authors, Jon Klassen and Mac Barnett.
“Picture books are real literature. The best ones are artworks as great as any books humans have made. But like all children’s literature, picture books are misunderstood and undervalued, a centuries-old problem we expect to have fixed after two or three posts.”
- Read their deep dive into picture book illustrations here.
- And, a discussion of the ‘so famous, it’s iconic’, children’s picture book Where the Wild Things are here.
“(Maurice) Sendak had a deep knowledge of art history. It’s always interesting to situate picture books within the wider arts, though the tendency is to fence them off like some kids-only playground. Picture books are fed by painting and music and theater and dance. Studying other disciplines helps us read picture books better — and write them better, too.”
Author Julie Falatko shares her notes on challenging ourselves to get our creative writing work done, even when it’s hard to stick to it. As a writer, she knows all about procastination!
Am I doing this Right? with Lian Cho
Illustrator Lian Cho does the most wonderful sketches and cartoons and she always makes me laugh, while inspiring me too!
Zoe Sees with Zoe Si
Cartoonist Zoe Si shares her creative journey and we love her work.
Incidental Comics with Grant Snider
Grant Snider is both a cartoonist and an orthodontist and I’ll leave that right there.
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