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Cooking is Child’s Play: A French Cookbook for Kids
This beautiful vintage French cookbook for kids belongs to my friend, Cybele. Check out that chef baby on the cover! La Cuisine est un Jeu D’enfants was published in 1965 and, according to the jacket...
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Kathleen Griffin’s Butterflies of Memory
When my friend Mary* told me about her sister’s latest sculpture project I couldn’t believe my ears. Giant golden butterflies flying away with an abandoned hospital? On an Island?! It sounds like...
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MNMLSM
Image: Dick Bruna I’m really into bold, minimal, modern, poster-y illustrations right now, which I guess is what happens to your brain when you start working in silkscreen. Even though I think of...
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3 German illustrators whose work you may or may not know*
Detail of poster insert to Das Kind und die Katze. Illustration by Rotraut Susanne Berner. My friend Diana, from Germany, is visiting this week. We met back when I lived (and studied illustration) in...
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Wishing you all a chocolate chicken!
Rosemary Wells‘ Max’s Chocolate Chicken is the best book for this season! It involves an egg hunt, a chocolate chicken in a birdbath and a beautiful forest in bloom for a backdrop. I find it to be a...
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“Are you a Goop?”
A few years ago I came across two of Frank Gelett Burgess’ books about the Goops at a small and wonderful library sale in Sherman, CT. I wanted to share with you Goop Tales because it is hilarious!...
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Checking in on Vine
The magic water faucet https://t.co/hJ0nhtgtfV — Khoa (@khoaphan) May 23, 2013 - The Vine app has come a very long way since I first wrote about it in March. People are now “Vine famous” many with a...
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Sara Fanelli’s My Map Book
Map of My Heart (click to enlarge) I’ll never forget when I came across Sara Fanelli’s My Map Book while I was re-shelving books at the independent bookstore I worked at many years ago. It made me...
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High School French Follow-up!
(click to enlarge) I cannot believe I wrote this post a year ago. When I put it on Facebook, I hadn’t thought much about it. But lo and behold Mark from my high school French class (and just about...
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Ode to Italian Authors and Illustrators
(click to enlarge) page spread illustrated by Emanuele Luzzati from Italo Calvino’s: Il visconte dimezzato. I recently went back to Italy, almost ten years after I had left it. That’s a long story I...
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Lani Yamamoto inspires me!
Above: My complete collection of Lani Yamamoto books. Lani Yamamoto’s books have been a big inspiration to me. I love her books on every level, for the topics they tackle, for her simple line...
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