130 Elgin Avenue in the Snow: Edward Ardizzone

A comment was left today (see below)

and I'd like to respond, here: I am most

happy to dig, Anon, and do completely

and with all my heart agree with what

you have written. Delighted to comply.

"Keep digging for Ardizzone material.
Edward Ardizzone championed a certain style
of illustration which is simple, effective and
portrays a realistic and moderate attitude to life."

More here.

And more to come.

How to Write and Illustrate a Picture Book

Reader, I believe this is the most

magnificent page I have ever seen.

It is beautiful, mainly, in that it encapsulates

perfectly an art which intrigues so many. I've

read so much about this, over the years, and

I can tell you that no one has even come close

to covering the subject so purely and concisely.

And it is in response to a query, once, from

yours truly. Was it a surprise and is it pure joy?

Yes, and yes. Here.

class winners

How did I miss this era?

Did I ever tell you I won the canoe race at camp?

Somehow, this all looks really right to me.

Pair it with a cute midshipman in a raccoon coat, and you've got a deal.

via [marvelous] archival clothing

bliss

There is simply nothing like the

remarkable work of M. B. Goffstein.

Here, one of her ethereal paintings graces the

cover of an anniversary issue of The Horn Book.

The former Horn Book editor Ethel Heins

put it perfectly (note, also, that it is she whom

Goffstein so delightfully captured, above):

...the M. B. Goffstein of

Fish for Supper is, blissfully,

"a mistress of understatement."

Thank heaven.