Planting Seeds

Our show got some fabulous coverage in the Deseret News yesterday. Thank you, Carma Wadley for the article and Jason Olson for the photos! What I'm especially pleased about is that she included a list of each artist and each book represented in the show.

My favorite quote from the article: "We hope [children] connect the art they love [in books] with finding something to love at a museum. We are planting seeds, hoping they will become museum lovers."

The Rest of the Story

We are pleased to announce our story time with the illustrator schedule for November and December. We hope you'll join us each Saturday morning at 11:00 at the museum!

Nov. 1: Sherry Meidell
Nov. 8: Julie Olson
Nov. 15: Mark and Caralyn Buehner
Nov. 22: Lily Toy Hong
Nov. 29: Stories illustrated by various artists
Dec. 6: Greg Newbold
Dec. 13: Nathan Hale

Family Photo

Guy Francis, who will be our visiting illustrator at this week's story time (11:00 on Saturday, October 18), just posted this picture on his blog and he's looking for a title for it. If you have a fun idea, click here to link to his blog.

Guy will be reading two books that he's illustrated: Mrs. McBloom, Clean Up Your Classroom by Kelly S. DiPucchio and Shelly by Margie Palatini.

East Meets West

Fumi Kosaka, who grew up in Japan but who now lives with her husband and two children in Provo, will be joining us for story time at 11:00 this Saturday morning at the museum.

Fumi came to the United States to study at Ricks College (now BYU Idaho) and BYU in Provo. 

After graduating, she moved to New York and worked in the children's art department of a New York City publishing house while pursuing freelance illustration projects. 

She has illustrated nine children's books, including several books written by well known author Cynthia Rylant.

See Spot. See Spot 600 Times.

Here's baby B. settling in on the beach with Beach Bugs, the latest in a series of beloved pop-up books full of all sorts of crazy bug-eyed bugs created by Salt Lake City native David A. Carter.

One of David's most recent feats of paper engineering is 600 Black Spots, inspired by the work of artists such as Matisse and Mondrian. We are thrilled to have working models from the book, along with specifications for the dies used to cut pieces which are then assembled by hand to create the pop-ups. And of course we've got a copy of the book on our gallery bookshelf. Come see if you can find all 600 black spots!

The Three-Eyed Bee

Today's story time attendees had the opportunity to ask illustrator Will Terry questions, and, boy, did they! They were full of all sorts of questions about how long it takes to paint all of the pictures for a book (3 to 6 months), how many colors he uses (he has only 10 different tubes of acrylic paint, but he mixes them to make hundreds of colors) and whether he gets to travel all over the world to get ideas for his pictures (yeah, that would be nice, wouldn't it?).

Will Terry brought the original cover illustration for Little Rooster's Diamond Button, a retelling of an old Hungarian folk tale. We've got a copy of the book on the bookshelf in the gallery. Come take a look and see if you can find the bee with three eyes on one of the pages!

Will Terry signs a copy of one of his books for a story time attendee and adds one more drawing!

It Ate What?!

Pictured: Cambria Evans reads Bone Soup during story time on Saturday morning at the museum. 

We learned all sorts of fun facts about Cambria, her books and her life in New York.  Can you believe the story Cambria tells in her book Martha Moth Makes Socks was inspired by a real moth who ate holes in her very favorite sweater? It goes to show that good story ideas can come from just about anywhere!

Join us this Saturday, September 27, when illustrator Will Terry reads The Frog with the Big Mouth by Teresa Bateman and Little Rooster's Diamond Button by Margaret Read McDonald, both published by Albert Whitman & Company.