October 9, 2011
mcnallykids: This book makes me laugh out loud every time I read it, which has been daily since it arrived two weeks ago. I see a lot of contemporary picture books with illustrations that crowd the page and overwhelm (possibly a consequence of the Age of Overstimulation? Just a theory), but Klassen’s are clean, subtle, and so much more effective for it. Need I explain the expertly wrought deadpan humor? It’s right there in the title, but there’s a delicious twist at the end. I won’t spoil it. Spoiler alert: Bears are vicious predators.

mcnallykids:

This book makes me laugh out loud every time I read it, which has been daily since it arrived two weeks ago. I see a lot of contemporary picture books with illustrations that crowd the page and overwhelm (possibly a consequence of the Age of Overstimulation? Just a theory), but Klassen’s are clean, subtle, and so much more effective for it.

Need I explain the expertly wrought deadpan humor? It’s right there in the title, but there’s a delicious twist at the end. I won’t spoil it.

Spoiler alert: Bears are vicious predators.

5:55pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZDtOFyAUGD3L
(Notes: 196)
  
Filed under: rabbits for dinner i want my hat back jon klassen picture books mcnally kids awesome picture books staff pick 
October 5, 2011
mcnallykids: It’s been a long time — too long, perhaps — since a book made me cry on the subway. This one did it, and I am adamant in saying that it’s not just because there was a mysterious onion smell coming through the man’s skin next to me. A Monster Calls is dark, soulful, terrifying and utterly human, to say nothing of the haunting illustrations by Jim Kay (sometimes I really have to fight back the writer jealousy in this job).

mcnallykids:

It’s been a long time — too long, perhaps — since a book made me cry on the subway. This one did it, and I am adamant in saying that it’s not just because there was a mysterious onion smell coming through the man’s skin next to me. A Monster Calls is dark, soulful, terrifying and utterly human, to say nothing of the haunting illustrations by Jim Kay (sometimes I really have to fight back the writer jealousy in this job).

4:29pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZDtOFyAJtOtK
(Notes: 180)
  
Filed under: patrick ness ness a monster calls teen tween fiction recommended staff picks staff pick chaos walking siobhan dowd 
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