It's Holi today. As the children and their parents gather in the lane and play with colours, I relish the spring morning at home, with plenty to read...Brainpickings is one of my favourite sites...thanks Maria Popova for exploring and sharing with us and walking us through the infinite cosmos of books.
Today is all about children's books. I am longing to get my hands on these treasures...when will they come to Mumbai?
She shares snippets from Maya Angelou's Life Doesn't Frighten Me and you can even hear Maya Angelou reading out the verses on Soundcloud.
In another post, she writes about Toni and Slade Morrison's collaboration in The Big Box. Which parent won't identify with Morrison when she says this:
Would love to get my hands on Conversations with Toni Morrison.
More enchanting art and children's books - she introduces A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to School, and I absolutely loved the visualisation of the ants demolishing breakfast. This children's tale will be much relished by many a grown up simply for it touches a cord within all of us - thank you Davide Cali and French illustrator Benjamin Chaud! And here's a little more about how his illustrations take shape!
Once you're done with this, do explore the transformation of the grumpy teacher in Peter Brown's My Teacher Is a Monster (No I am Not) as it weaves a tale with an age old message - that sometimes we may not see a person for who they really are until we get the opportunity to look deeper.
And then, the story of how great art evolves from a thought to the final finished work here as Klass Verplanckes shares his secrets and how Applesauce was born.
Today is all about children's books. I am longing to get my hands on these treasures...when will they come to Mumbai?
She shares snippets from Maya Angelou's Life Doesn't Frighten Me and you can even hear Maya Angelou reading out the verses on Soundcloud.
In another post, she writes about Toni and Slade Morrison's collaboration in The Big Box. Which parent won't identify with Morrison when she says this:
The plight (and resistance) of children living in a wholly commercialized environment that equates “entertainment” with happiness, products with status, “things” with love, and that is terrified of the free (meaning un-commodified, unpurchaseable) imagination of the young. (Although children participate enthusiastically in the “love me so buy me” pattern, I think they are taught to think that way and that on some deep level they know what is being substituted.)
Would love to get my hands on Conversations with Toni Morrison.
More enchanting art and children's books - she introduces A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to School, and I absolutely loved the visualisation of the ants demolishing breakfast. This children's tale will be much relished by many a grown up simply for it touches a cord within all of us - thank you Davide Cali and French illustrator Benjamin Chaud! And here's a little more about how his illustrations take shape!
Once you're done with this, do explore the transformation of the grumpy teacher in Peter Brown's My Teacher Is a Monster (No I am Not) as it weaves a tale with an age old message - that sometimes we may not see a person for who they really are until we get the opportunity to look deeper.
And then, the story of how great art evolves from a thought to the final finished work here as Klass Verplanckes shares his secrets and how Applesauce was born.
Source: http://blog.picturebookmakers.com/post/109965770341/klaas-verplancke
