December 5, 2011   1 note

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Jon Klassen is one of my favorite illustrators right now… and his very funny book I WANT MY HAT BACK is one of my favorite books — there is talk of a Caldecott for it. (Interesting review in HORN BOOK on that.) It comes from one of my favorite publishers, Candlewick. (Here’s the trailer) 

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It takes hard work to look that easy. And a lot of time to be that simple.
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And here’s something else quite wonderful: his cover for the NYT book review…
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via Jago 
Klassen writes of his illustration: “The book being reviewed, ‘The Grief of Others’ by Leah Hager Cohen, has a scene in it where a little girl holds a mock funeral in a river using ashes and chicken bones. She falls in and almost drowns right after that.” via NYT

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