I am already in love with some of these picture books just from the sample illustrations in this article. Wow! Gotta check and see if my library has any of these! (I have a 5-year-old in my life, and I'm the book fairy!)
Oh, Carrots! Mariajo Ilustrajo's delightful picture book is Bunny Approved!
Zoom sur l’image dans la grotte 
Je vous saurais gré de bien vouloir prendre la peine de lire le alt, qui est le alt le plus complet de l’histoire des alts de ma page, même si je n’ai pas mentionné qu’il y a un gros bonhomme bleu avec des longs bras ni que le rideau de la grotte est particulièrement cool pour un rideau de grotte.
D’autres images du même livre sur ma page pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/delphine.durand 
#wip #illustration #delphinedurand #cosmogony #creation #albumjeunesse #picturebooks
Une drôle de Bête - Martine Laffon & Delphine Durand - Ed. Les Foumis Rouge) #pictureBooks #litteratureJeunesse #illustration #delphinedurand #childrensBooks #animaux #nature #creation #cosmogonie #albumJeunesse #uneDroleDeBete
WhatTheGruffalosReading - The G-Man is delighted by Letters to a Monster, by Patricia Forde & Sarah Warburton, just out from Bloomsbury Kids. A little girl writes to the monster under her bed, who then writes back...
#WhatTheGruffalosReading : today the G-Man is shaking his funky stuff to Clare Foges & Al Murphy's fabtabulous Kitchen Disco, from Faber. Fab rhyming, this one needs a road-test at our Under Fives Storytime!!
Going to my niece’s baby shower in a few weeks. I always like to add a board book to the main gift, I try to get something my son liked as a toddler — this time I got Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers because he adored that one, and I adored reading him Oliver Jeffers books in general (I may or may not have kept reading his new releases after my son finally outgrew picture books 
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I listen to a lot of audiobooks for small children and this is the first one I've encountered that includes image descriptions. It's such a good idea! The small child I was listening with was so excited that I had to pause the story for celebrations. Alt text all the things.
The book is Secret of the Jade Bangle, by #LindaTrinh
https://www.annickpress.com/Books/T/The-Secret-of-the-Jade-Bangle
As a parent, I’ve become picky and opinionated about picture books for toddlers.
I love the style of (from Finland) Säg hej! by Annika Sandelin and Linda Bondestam (https://forlaget.com/bocker/sag-hej/) and (from Sweden) Hela fina jag by Hanna Albrektson (https://lillapiratforlaget.se/bocker/hela-fina-jag/).
They feature diverse characters, simple text, attractive illustrations and are long enough to feel like there is an actual story there.
English language books? Eh, most of them are branded with TV series, or promise to teach your kid to do something or develop a skill, and even if they don’t they’ll have boring, static illustrations and no narrative structure.
The best two I’ve seen so far are (from Scotland) Ferry by Benedict Blathwayt (https://birlinn.co.uk/product/ferry-2/) and (from the US) From Ed’s to Ned’s by Gideon Sterer and Lucy Ruth Cummins (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/588889/from-eds-to-neds-by-gideon-sterer-illustrated-by-lucy-ruth-cummins/).
So what’s going on here? Is this a thing? And in any case, if you know the vibe I’m looking for from the above Swedish language works I’d love to hear about other books in English or Swedish!
Minoritised authors and illustrators to the front of the line - and please remember that English literature is not a monoculture.
#CfP for the Symposium "Teaching (With) #Picturebooks: Context, Competences, #Criticism", which will take place at the University of Rostock on November 25-26, 2024.
Deadline for Abstracts: September 9, 2024
Further Information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/teaching-with-picturebooks-context-competences-criticism/ #avldigitalnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #LiteratureArts #LiteratureVisual #LiteratureVisualArts #LiteratureYouth #Genre #LiteratureGenre
My runner-up favourite #heatwave / climate change picture book is this one, where a family is trying to get to the lake but their car keeps breaking down.
A baby is taken seriously as a person with valid ideas, a dad does all the parenting, it's a solid right-to-repair story, and the car is correctly portrayed as unglamorous and annoying. But the noises it makes are a lot of fun to read.
My favourite #heatwave / climate change picture book is this one, where one night it is so hot that the moon melts.
It has everything: apartment-dwellers helping each other, a grandma with good ideas, climate refugees (from the moon), environmental restoration, and an ending that is cute and encouraging, or maybe "icy and sweet".
Gonna go make popsicles and work on my neighbourhood extreme weather prep. Sending courage to my fellow west coasters.
5 Things Every Kid Should Know About #Disability – Raising #AntiAbleist #Kids.
This is the first of a four-series post. In this post: 5 actions to #teach your kids about disability #inclusion & awesome #PictureBooks to get started. Learn what to look for in #KidsBooks fostering #equity for #KidsWithDisabilities – and how to spot #ableist tropes.
How fantabulous and colourful is our new Ralfy Rabbit window painting by the fabbity-fab Emily McKenzie???
Signed copies of Ralfy Rabbit & the Great Library Rescue from Bloomsbury now available!
08 days until the CYA2024 writing and illustration competitions close. www.cyaconference.com/competition
16 categories for everyone from published, aspiring and under-18 authors and illustrators.
Picture book to adult genres, and illustrations
Published authors categories:
- Picture book (text only)
- YA/middle grade
- Writing for the adult genres
Aspiring authors
- Picture book - preschool-aged children (text only)
- Picture book - primary-aged children (text only)
- Picture book - non-fiction - primary-aged children (text only)
- Chapter book - younger primary-aged children (text only)
- Chapter book - older-aged children (text only)
- Fiction writing for young adults
- Writing for the adult genres
Hatchling authors
- Picture books - preschool or primary-aged children (text only)
- Chapter book (includes Text only for younger primary-aged children, middle-grade children, and young adults)
- Writing for the adult genres
Illustrators
Submit a colour illustration suitable for a book, based on the theme IN MOTION
- Hatchling
- Aspiring
- Published
Visit the @librarypass booth at PLA, walk away with a new friend. #libraries #kidlit #librarians #picturebooks #pla2024
"The World Through Picture Books" – "Librarians’ favourite books from their country" by the IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section: https://www.ifla.org/g/libraries-for-children-and-ya/the-world-through-picture-books/
"The third edition features the lists of the favourite picture books from 57 countries, in 37 languages and includes 530 books."
#picturebooks #Bilderbücher
"The World Through Picture Books" – "Librarians’ favourite books from their country" by the IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section: https://www.ifla.org/g/libraries-for-children-and-ya/the-world-through-picture-books/
"The third edition features the lists of the favourite picture books from 57 countries, in 37 languages and includes 530 books."
#picturebooks #Bilderbücher
