Choosing Favorites: Illustrators

Have you ever read a book where the words and the illustrations were not in harmony? Where the dialogue was mediocre but the illustrations were magnificent or the illustrations were less than splendid and the dialogue was witty? Illustrations can either make or break a book. Obviously the book that is harmonious in word and […]

Grandpa Green Written and Illustrated by Lane Smith

One of this month’s ChildrensBookStore.com staff picks is an American Library Association Youth Media Award winner for this year.  “Grandpa Green” illustrated and written by Lane Smith, and published by Roaring Brook Press, is also a Randolf Caldecott Award winning book for being a most distinguished illustrated children’s book. It’s also the recipient of  the New York […]