Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Oh how I love Oliver Jeffers' childrens' books

The Latest and Greatest
My daughter is going to art college in Boston for Illustration. Childrens book illustration, to be exact.
This is something I've always had a love for also. When I was a child, my favorite favorite illustrator was Richard Scarry. Still is my all time favorite if I had to pick one. I couldn't wait to have children of my own and buy them storybooks! The first book I ever read to my daughter was The Country Mouse and the City Mouse, when she was just 3 weeks old. It didn't take long until she was surrounded by books. Baskets of them. I discovered yard sales and would buy oodles of them, many for only 25 cents a piece. Sometimes, if I really hit it lucky, I would get a whole bag or box of them for a few dollars! (I will cover more on the topic of childrens books in the future for sure.) But for now, I wanted to tell everyone that Oliver Jeffers latest book, The Day the Crayons Quit, is the most clever, wonderful book. Has fast become a favorite. You will never look at a box of crayons the same way again. I really hope the crayons can work things out, because a world without crayons would be very plain, very boring, very blank.

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