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From the exhibition "What Might You Do? Christian Robinson" at the Eric Carle Museum, Amherst, 2023.
Art Greg CookMarch 17, 2023 0

Christian Robinson’s Books Share The Message Art Gave Him: You Matter

“It’s important for me to tell stories that reflect the diverse world that we live in,” picture book illustrator and author Christian Robinson said in a 2016 video for PBS…Continue Reading →

Ed Emberley, Sketch for Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals (Little, Brown & Co.). Collection of the artist. © 1970 Ed Emberley.
Art Greg CookApril 6, 2022 0

Ed Emberley: Drawing Made (To Look) Easy

“This is the whole secret—this is an alphabet,” children’s book creator Ed Emberley has told Cambridge artist and writer Caleb Neelon about the philosophy behind his celebrated how-to-draw books. Take…Continue Reading →

Mrs Rabbit pouring tea for Peter for The tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, 1902. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, courtesy Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.
Art Greg CookApril 6, 2022 0

Beatrix Potter And The Letter That Birthed Peter Rabbit

“My dear Noel, I don’t know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter,”…Continue Reading →

From Jef Czekaj's “Little Ghoul Goes to School." (Balzer + Bray)
Art Greg CookAugust 23, 2021 0

Going Back To School With Jef Czekaj’s ‘Little Ghoul’

Jef Czekaj”s latest humorous picture book for kids, “Little Ghoul Goes to School” (Balzer + Bray), conjures a school anxiety dream. “It’s a little monster, a Little Ghoul, that is…Continue Reading →

Tomie DePaola, from “The Art Lesson," 1989.
Art Greg CookMarch 30, 2020 0

An Interview With ‘Strega Nona’ Artist Tomie dePaola, Who Died Monday At Age 85

Tomie dePaola—the New Hampshire artist and children’s book creator who won the Caldecott Honor for his 1975 book “Strega Nona” about a kindly witch—died today at age 85. The Associated…Continue Reading →

Maira Kalman, Illustration for "Next Stop, Grand Central" (G. P. Putnam’s Sons). Courtesy of Julie Saul Projects, New York. © 1999 Maira Kalman.
Art Greg CookNovember 14, 2019 0

Maira Kalman: ‘If You Don’t Digress And Go Off The Point, I Think You Miss The Point’

“There’s absolutely nothing you can’t talk to children about. They want to know the truth,” author and illustrator Maira Kalman says during a tour of her new exhibition “The Pursuit…Continue Reading →

Kay Nielsen, Concept drawing for Disney's "Fantasia" featuring Chernabog, 1940, pastel and crayon. (Courtesy Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts)
Art Greg CookAugust 14, 2019 0

Illustrator And Disney Artist Kay Nielsen’s Glittering Fantasies And Difficult Life

The most famous creation of Kay Nielsen (1886-1957), one of the outstanding illustrators at the dawn of the 20th century, is the demon that steals the show at the end…Continue Reading →

Books Kari PercivalJuly 21, 2019 0

‘Becoming Dr. Seuss’ Is A Drafting-Table-Side-Seat At The Creation Of Children’s Classics

I binge read Brian Jay Jones’s biography “Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination” (Dutton). I couldn’t put it down. Jones tells Geisel’s bumpy journey…Continue Reading →

“The Stuff of Stars,” illustrated by Ekua Holmes and authored by Marion Dane Bauer, 2018. (Candlewick Press)
Books Greg CookFebruary 2, 2019 0

With ‘Stuff Of Stars,’ Ekua Holmes Wins Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, Again

This week the American Library Association announced that Boston artist Ekua Holmes had again won its Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, honoring African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books…Continue Reading →

Caleb Neelon pains his Ed Emberley "Drawing Books" mural at the Cambridge Public Library's Children's Room, Jan. 17, 2019. (Greg Cook)
Art Greg CookJanuary 20, 2019 0

Ed Emberley’s Classic How-To-Draw Books Inspire Cambridge Library Mural By Caleb Neelon

In 1970, “Ed Emberley’s Drawing Book of Animals” was published, the first in a long line of how-to draw books by the Ipswich author that have gone on to inspire…Continue Reading →

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