There is a cool new feature at the New York Times Book review — Children’s Live Illustration.
Visual artists have always had an important place in children’s literature. Watch some leading children’s books illustrators draw, paint, collage, and talk about books with The Times’s children’s books editor, Maria Russo.
It started January 6th with Christian Robinson and went on, as of this writing, with the following (for the ones without links the videos are all here):
- Matthew Reinhart
- Booki Vivat
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Joe Sutphin
- Jon Klassen
- Mark Siegel
- Jerry Pinkney
- Patrick McDonnell
- Grant Shaffer
- Abby Hanlon
- Sophie Blackall
- George O’Connor
- Elise Gravel
- Nick Bruel
- Javaka Steptoe
- Vanessa Brantley Newton
- Floyd Cooper
- James Sturm
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