IGI Member Maurice Pierse tells us about his new children book project

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Ben Katchor’s first new book in 10 years, The Cardboard Valise continues his wonderful combination of borgesian flights of fancy and scratchy drawing. Here’s an interview with the cartoonist.

The New York Times received an incredible 15-foot-long scroll to the editor from Birch Lane Elementary School in California in response to their article about picturebooks.

Check out the full scroll here.

This close reading of Richard Scarry’s classic What do people do all day? is worth a read. (via Kottke)

Also, this flickr set points out the comparison between the 1963 and more politically sensitive 1991 editions.

Uppercase Magazine & Books in the US has recently released Work/Life 2: the UPPERCASE directory of Illustration, international edition, which features over 100 illustrators in 224 pages. Work/Life 1 featured Canadian Illustrators and you can view it here.

London-based illustrator Christina Christoforou has drawn hundreds of celebrities, rock stars, fictional characters, and famous personages —using only their hair—for her new book Whose Hair?

In The Ould Ago is a fascinating new book of Illustrated Irish Folklore book by the late Johnny McKeagney. For forty years Johnny collected folklore by pen and tape recorder. You can see a Nationwide short video on his work here.

Illustrator Shaun Tan has won his first Oscar for best animated short at the Academy Awards in Hollywood. The Australian artist won for The Lost Thing, which was praised by critics but considered a longshot for the Academy Award. The 15-minute computer generated and hand-painted movie was only supposed to be a picture book. “Wow, this is quite surreal,” he said on stage. “Our film is about a creature that doesn’t get any attention so this is quite ironic.”

Here is a trailer for The Lost Thing…

Shaun is an incredibly talented childrens book illustrator as anyone who has marveled at The Arrival to name just one will testify.

He is also an extremely nice guy and I was very lucky to have met him 2 years ago during a special coffee morning in the Children’s Book Ireland office.

The Guardian carried a gallery from Emily Gravett’s books – a great introduction to anyone who doesn’t know her work.

Click to see!

The children’s book blog 36 pages is run by illustrator Craig Frazier, who discusses his own work and gives insights into his favorite children’s books. Check it out here.