![]() ![]() “‘What if there is a monster under the table?’ said Jumpy Jack. ![]() ![]() ‘There could be a monster nearby and I’m scared of monsters.’ “‘I’m nervous,’ said Jumpy Jack to his best friend, Googily. For an example of the former, see 2007’s Red Butterfly: How a Princess Smuggled the Secret of Silk Out of China (Candlewick), written by Deborah Noyes, and for an example of the latter, YOU ABSOLUTELY CANNOT MISS this year’s deadpan Jumpy Jack & Googily (Henry Holt), written by Sophie’s bud and frequent picture-book-making partner, Meg Rosoff (not to mention the other picture book titles on which they’ve partnered, which are listed below): There is a lightness and a brightness to her work that always makes me smile at the same time, her Chinese inks and watercolors are capable of either great elegance or supreme goofiness and lots of humor, depending on the story she’s illustrating. It’d just be hard to narrow, my friends.īut Sophie Blackall would, without question, be on my list. If you read our blog regularly, you could probably guess that it would be difficult for me-should someone, say, have a gun to my head, absurdly enough-to name my top-ten favorite illustrators. ![]()
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