Count them. Well, okay, you don’t have to do that. I’ll tell you: We have over one hundred nominations in this category: 118, to be exact. Many thanks to everyone who submitted nominations. Needless to say, there’s something for everyone here in this list. See for yourself! Jules, Organizer for the Fiction Picture Books category
REVIEW: Leaves by David Ezra Stein
Today’s review of another picture book comes from Jules of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast. It’s called Leaves, by David Ezra Stein: This is a lovely little poem of a picture book (or, as the Publishers Weekly review put it in their starred review, more like a "haiku-like shape," praising Stein for his willingness to let the story assume that …
2007 Nominations: Fiction Picture Books
Jules here, organizer for the Fiction Picture Books committee. What exactly will we obsessive picture book lovers be doing and looking for? "The picture book is a peculiar art form that thrives on genius, intuition, daring, wrote Maurice Sendak in 1997. A picture book gives us what no other type of book can: the merging of text, art, and design …
About Julie Danielson
Today we introduce Julie Danielson, our Fiction Picture Books organizer. Julie Danielson, a.k.a. Jules, here. I am co-blogger at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, otherwise known as its abbreviation, "7-Imp," in the kidlitosphere. Eisha and I review books for all ages at 7-Imp, but we are very heavy on children’s lit, and I tend to focus most heavily on posts …