While you’re pondering the significance of 12/12/12 and taking a break from monitoring your seismographs and telescopes, here, in no particular order, are a dozen or so (math isn’t our strong suit) books that we love to read and share during this most wonderful time of the year*. Little Bea and the Snowy Day, by [...]
Archive of posts tagged Lynne Rae Perkins
A Thanksgiving Gift
We’ve got lots to be thankful for, and we’d like to extend our wishes for a happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers and friends. We are especially thankful for manuscripts that arrive unexpectedly! (Now we just need to figure out how to open the darn thing–any advice?) Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Blog this! [...]
Visiting the 23rd Floor: Lynne Rae Perkins
Lynne Rae Perkins was in the office recently to work on the dummy for a new picture book. The story was written by Esmé Raji Codell and it is about Johnny Appleseed. Sylvie, Lynne Rae, and I spent two pizza-and-caffeine-fueled days talking about the pictures, the type design, the pacing, and the pagination. And whether [...]
Pipe cleaners + Sequins + Electrical tape + Glitter + Chocolate = Happiness
This festive willow tree (created by Lynne Rae “Martha Stewart Amy Sedaris” Perkins and assembled at the Greenwillow weekly meeting) is adding some much-needed joie de vivre (as Sylvie would say) to the first week of 2011! Thank you! Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on FriendFeed Buzz it [...]
When Greenwillow authors go a visiting . . .
Amy Brecount White recently visited Lynne Rae Perkins in Michigan. She was in the area in time for “Shardfest.” We are told that Shardfest took place in Lynne Rae’s driveway on one the hottest days of the summer. Shardfest participants got to hammer tiles, smash already broken mugs, etc. etc. etc. to come up with [...]
