Last year, Bethany Griffin’s Masque of the Red Death had an atmospheric and gorgeous jacket, worthy of Bethany’s sexy and creepy re-imagining of the classic Edgar Allan Poe story. So this year, the Greenwillow art department faced the challenge of recreating that moody, beautiful atmosphere for the sequel (and conclusion), Dance of the Red Death. Here’s a behind-the-scenes [...]
Archive of posts filed under the From the Editor’s Desk category.
It’s magic!
One of the best moments of any editor’s day is seeing the original art for a picture book for the very first time. Author-artist Christie Matheson delivered beautiful watercolor and collage artwork for her debut picture book, Make Tree Magic, earlier this year. It’ll be in bookstores this fall, and we can’t wait for the rest [...]
Why I Adore HOMER
Okay, so I’m a dog person. In fact, we just got a new puppy at our house (that makes three) and her name is June. Here she is running with pink tulle (and why not?) in the yard. June is at the beginning of her life with a family. She’s only just begun to be [...]
Videos We Love
Watch Poet Nye: ‘Telling a Story Helped Us Figure Out Who We Were’ on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour. Naomi Shihab Nye is the author and editor of numerous collections of poetry for readers of all ages . There Is No Long Distance Now is a collection of very short short stories. Naomi [...]
Of Bridges and Things . . .
I spent summers on Cape Cod when I was a kid. And my dad did before me. As those of you who have been to Cape Cod know, the Cape Cod Bridge is a big deal for many reasons. There are two of them, of course, but we always refer to them as “The Cape [...]
