Gathering Books

A-tisket A-tasket by Ella Fitzgerald and Van Alexander as Illustrated by Ora Eitan

If you wish to find a book that’s dancing and leaping off the page in brightly-colored, unapologetically-flat-and-two-dimensional, seemingly-paper-cut-out illustrations – [...]
David Wiesner’s Flotsam

Iphigene here. Searching through the wreckage of old and used books I found myself a surprise called Flotsam. I went to the cashier, gave the lady my money, and left with [...]
Nonfiction Monday – Chasing Dreams in “Sawdust and Spangles: The Amazing Life of W.C. Coup” by Ralph Covert and G. Riley Mills, Illustrated by Giselle Potter

Fats here. Today’s Nonfiction Monday is hosted by Wendie’s Wanderings. One of the books featured in our 31st In My Mailbox was a picture book biography called Sawdust [...]
A dream within a dream within a dream: Alice in Wonderland by Suzy Lee

… Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? Edgar Allan Poe, 1849 Myra here. This quotation by Edgar Allan Poe was the first thought that came to my mind as I [...]
Of Marids, Wyverns, and Heartless Children: A Quick Look At Catherynne M. Valente’s The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“Once upon a time, a girl named September grew very tired indeed of her parents’ house, where she washed the same pink-and-yellow teacups and matching gravy boats every [...]
Re-visiting Dolphin Hotel with Murakami’s Dance Dance Dance

Iphigene here. “Dancing is everything, Dance in tip-top form. Dance so it all keeps spinning. If you do that, we might be able to do something for you. You gotta dance. [...]
Making Science Fun in Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s Science Verse

Fats here. It has been a week since I had my desktop sent to Apple (because it mysteriously crashed) and my laptop sent to Best Buy for reformatting (because it mysteriously [...]
Breaking Free and Soaring High: The Power of Creativity and Imagination in David Wiesner’s SECTOR 7

Picture Book Challenge: 48 of 72 Fats here. “The sky, a perfect empty canvas, offers clouds nonetheless. They shift and drift and beg interpretation… Such is the [...]
The Floods [Neighbours] by Colin Thompson

I was dreading doing a review of a Colin Thompson YA lit primarily because I am such a huge fan of his picture books. I was afraid that I might be disappointed and that the [...]
The Life of An Artist, Poet, Slave: Dave the Potter by Laban Carrick Hill and Bryan Collier

Picture Book Reading Challenge: 22 of 72 PoC Reading Challenge: 15 of 25 Myra here. I first learned of this book when the 2011 Children’s Book Award winners was [...]
A Chelsea Morning Collaboration – Joni Mitchell and Brian Froud

When I discovered this lovely book in the community library, I knew I just had to create a GatheringBooks theme that would showcase the marriage of music and picture books. [...]
Celebration of Black History Month in GatheringBooks Kicks off with Maya Angelou and Jean-Michel Basquiat

Myra here. When I found out from Corinne of PaperTigers that February is Black History Month through her comprehensive post here, I knew we had to devote a specific period [...]

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