Mon, May 9th, 2011
Inkblot by Margaret Peot
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: Does anyone have a bottle of india ink I may borrow? Margaret Peot has me fired up to get creative with her intriguing book Inkblot: Drip, Splat, and Squish Your Way to Creativity (Boyds Mills 2011). She lays out the process for creating inkblot designs and then transforming them into works of art by [...]
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Mon, November 22nd, 2010
A Plethora of Pop-Ups
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Lynn: Occasionally our focus group takes the editorial reins in their hands and dictates the subject of our post. That is the case with today’s post. Generous publishers have sent us a number of wonderful pop-up books this year that the boys have especially enjoyed. They’ve gone from asking politely if we’ve blogged about these [...]
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Wed, June 9th, 2010
Feeding the Sheep by Leda Schubert
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: Lynn is trying to teach me how to knit, but after reading Feeding the Sheep (Farrar, 2010) I’m glad that there are others whose knitting skills are more worthy than mine are of all that goes into making yarn. The cover drew me in, with the rosy cheeked girl being tickled by sheep eating [...]
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