When Words are Not Enough
Coffee and Conversation with a Book Artist
It is truly such a privilege to spend time with the lovely book artist, Suzy Lee. We have featured her for our Wordless Picture Book Special last April, and today I returned all her books (with great heaviness in my heart). Here is the four-part feature that we have done on Suzy: Part 1: A […]
Reading in April’s Heat: An April Round-up
In April, I was determined to read more and write more reviews. It’s summer break for me. A few months free of worrying about graduate school. I got my thick books out and began my reading journey. That’s my story, I’m not sure I did much reviewing though. For Gathering Books it was a busy […]
The Arrival by Shaun Tan: Monstrous Scales, Sepiatones, and Paper Boats in the Skies
Myra: Given the surreal nature of the book, I thought that a non-linear collaborative blogpost with Fats might do it justice. The great thing about publishing online is that you can be as creative as you wish – within boundaries, of course. Thus, we attempt our very first ‘integrated thought-bubble’ to share with you how […]
Missing Zoom with Re-Zoom by Istvan Banyai
If you haven’t noticed by now, of the GB team I’m not the picture book expert. Hence, when the team decided on our March/April bi-monthly theme my repertoire of wordless picture book was limited to one. That ONE book was Zoom by Istvan Banyai. I knew of Zoom years ago and had recently seen a […]
