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One of my all-time favorite books is Up North at the Cabin. There is something quintessential about the cabin experience for many people who live in the Upper Midwest. This book, by our Skinny Dippin’ author Marsha Wilson Chall, has engaged readers and listeners for 27 years! Marsha has created many picture books that showcase her storytelling talents, including Bonaparte, One Pup’s Up, and The Secret Life of Figgy Mustardo. We invited Marsha to share her thoughts with us. One green thing I wish everyone would do: Use less plastic! This includes but is not limited to plastic bags, plastic straws, plastic […]
I recently had the honor of interviewing Marsha Wilson Chall, the author of the new picture book, The Secret Life of Figgy Mustardo, and her editor, Jill Davis. Marsha Wilson Chall grew up an only child in Minnesota, where her father told her the best stories. The author of many picture books, including Up North at the Cabin, One Pup’s Up, and Pick a Pup, Marsha teaches writing at Hamline University’s MFAC program in St. Paul, Minnesota. She lives on a small farm west of Minneapolis with her husband, dog, barn cats, and books. Jill Davis has been an executive editor in children’s books at […]
[…]of Goffstein or Marshall … the treatment works. I always feel much better.” I met Arnold Lobel once. An illustrator friend and I went to hear him speak in the fall of 1980, the year he won the Caldecott for his picture book Fables. As a presenter, he was modest, funny, and generous. After the event, my friend and I headed for the parking lot when we saw Lobel walking alone to his rental car. We couldn’t believe that a Caldecott winner was all by himself. My friend asked him a few questions about making picture books, which he answered honestly. I stayed quiet. It was enough […]
[…]offers small comforts in the face of great of loss. We hope you all get to spend a day with Arnold Lobel and Frog and Toad and Grasshopper and Owl and Mouse and Uncle Elephant — soon — for silliness and comfort and friendship. Sidebar: We just want to mention stories written in the same spirit as Arnold Lobel’s stories, Charlie and Mouse, easy readers by Laurel Snyder, which was just named winner of the Geisel Medal, the ALA prize for Best Easy Reader […]
Which celebrity, living or not, do you wish would invite you to a coffee shop? Joni. And I’d come prepared with questions about her painting, not her music, because then, just maybe, she’d see beyond the gobsmacked fan. Maybe she’d draw something on a napkin for me. If she didn’t show, I’d be okay because I’d have a back-up date with Louisa May. What’s your favorite late-night snack? Buttered toast, but I can’t indulge that often now. Once upon a time, though, it was a nightly thing. Then when I was diagnosed with celiac disease I went years without it […]
by The Bookologist In this month’s “From the Editor,” Marsha Qualey share’s scholar Rudine Sims Bishop’s observation that while there are many nonfiction books for children and YAs about the civil rights events of the 1950s, not too many authors have tackled the topics in fiction. One exception might be school desegregation/integration,which is the focus of this month’s timeline. We’ve included one of the first books to deal with desegregation after Brown vs. The Board of Education (1954), a few from the boundary-pushing era of “problem novels,” and some recent titles, which are of course also problem novels (what novel isn’t!) but with […]
by Marsha Qualey One of the great good fortunes of my life is that I’ve managed to create a professional life that requires I read a lot. Reading is a passion; the old bumper sticker says it all: I’d rather be reading. But I also think reading is an interesting topic. How and why do we read? Who were the first readers? How has reading been used to oppress and liberate? How and why does reading — the physical act of reading — vary from culture to culture? Why — unlike so many outspoken proponents of one technology or the other — does my cat not care whether I read a hard copy book or […]
by Marsha Qualey My Seneca Village by Marilyn Nelson Namelos, 2015 I’m going to begin with a disclaimer that is also a bit o’ bragging. I’ve had the good fortune to meet and work with Marilyn Nelson (A Wreath for Emmett Till, Snook Alone, How I Discovered Poetry). I’ve stayed up late and sipped wine and talked with her, spent a day escorting her to school visits where she wowed elementary students; she once supped at my table. I also had the good fortune to hear some of the poems in My Seneca Village when the book was a work in progress. So, obviously I was predisposed to like […]
by Marsha Qualey The Horse: A Celebration of Horses in ArtRachel Barnes and Simon BarnesQuercus Publishing 2008 “We paint what matters to us…” “Horses have always been part pf the human imagination” —from the introduction … While preparing for this month’s Bookology I read and looked at many books about horses, and this is the one that was totally (totes!) unexpected. I was wowed. Even better, after an initial perusal I felt compelled to page through it again and again, studying the text and savoring […]
[…]recommended the Adventures in Cartooning series by James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost. The first book was Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles into Comics, introducing us to The Knight, Edward the chubby horse, and the Magic Cartooning Elf. With humor and breathless storytelling, this story captures both attention and imagination. I cannot envision a reader who wouldn’t want to pull out a pencil and give cartooning a try. Since then, there have been three more Adventures in Cartooning story/how-to books and four picture books featuring the beloved characters. The book I’ve fallen in love with now is Adventures in Cartooning: […]