tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42126088844590312322024-03-13T10:20:15.911-07:00Stephen SavageStephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-56725210449493209302012-09-04T18:27:00.001-07:002012-09-04T19:59:05.897-07:00LITTLE TUG is docking near you!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fall children's book season is upon us and I had the distinct honor of illustrating the announcements cover for Publisher's Weekly.</span>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-80440318924231702902012-06-11T05:10:00.002-07:002012-06-11T05:10:48.676-07:00Old School<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My editor, Neal Porter, likes to kick it Old School. Our new book, Little Tug, has a cloth spine and the cover is paper over board.</span>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-30751801809023222962012-06-06T17:36:00.001-07:002012-06-06T17:49:32.818-07:00Little Tug<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher Neal Porter and I unveiled our new picture book, LITTLE TUG, at Book Expo in New York City today. It hits bookstore shelves in October.</span>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-76515342948885038082012-05-21T07:42:00.001-07:002012-05-21T07:59:05.965-07:00International Reading Association Award<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When my editor David Saylor and I set out to create WHERE'S WALRUS?, we worried about the response from librarians and educators. Would a wordless book be welcomed into the classroom? The response has been an overwhelming 'yes'! This month, we proudly accepted the IRA's Primary Fiction <a href="http://www.reading.org/Resources/AwardsandGrants/childrens_ira.aspx">Award</a> at their annual conference in Chicago. </span>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-45518057448156739092012-01-15T06:12:00.000-08:002012-01-15T06:12:13.507-08:00Cyber-portrait<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMHRR-UdCDbIbe-kRPalIXE_xjaDMoEzb_dCe_h5QGJ8rBCTirkY7yxrNG3AI5_kwVtXSjSmlXbDcFM7WTIi4-JlaxtIdznJoowZpSp9bMJzIYwYv8qX-Sj-EOuBRkM9NaEy3VFqUPYQ4/s1600/tilt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMHRR-UdCDbIbe-kRPalIXE_xjaDMoEzb_dCe_h5QGJ8rBCTirkY7yxrNG3AI5_kwVtXSjSmlXbDcFM7WTIi4-JlaxtIdznJoowZpSp9bMJzIYwYv8qX-Sj-EOuBRkM9NaEy3VFqUPYQ4/s400/tilt.jpg" width="376" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">My portrait on the cover of this week's New York Times Book Review of sci-fi writer William Gibson, the man who coined the term "cyberspace".</span>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-27978638382678030232011-12-25T16:59:00.000-08:002011-12-25T16:59:03.132-08:00NYTBR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-czDJnqXfPEc/TvfF7bh4UoI/AAAAAAAAANY/h8_wGvih6ks/s1600/Hammer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-czDJnqXfPEc/TvfF7bh4UoI/AAAAAAAAANY/h8_wGvih6ks/s400/Hammer.jpg" width="348" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today's Christmas edition of the New York Times Book Review features a bunch of my spots.</span>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-91851597687021853032011-11-22T10:35:00.000-08:002011-11-22T10:35:49.084-08:00Connecticut Children's Book Fair<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw4Z3HZOlk7FDE2RYlLQIDo8P8aT-V-L1LNom2zowiXBeUM8oq9lmv7Lv6l_QDlrOYv32JnsI4HGnPSHdRp8oAcW-vNmyB_g4rgb0xKUEqTOzkUf0WzY3HeNi27Sn-EhDSTQOqlvyiHPk/s1600/fair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw4Z3HZOlk7FDE2RYlLQIDo8P8aT-V-L1LNom2zowiXBeUM8oq9lmv7Lv6l_QDlrOYv32JnsI4HGnPSHdRp8oAcW-vNmyB_g4rgb0xKUEqTOzkUf0WzY3HeNi27Sn-EhDSTQOqlvyiHPk/s400/fair.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Stefanie, Chloë and I drove up to the University of Connecticut to attend the Connecticut Children's Book Fair, November 12-13. Fair organizers Terri Goldich and Suzy Staubach hosted a wonderful dinner at the Nathan Hale Inn where Mo Willems, Matt Tavares, Wendell Minor, Tommie dePaola and I expressed our gratitude by drawing all over the plates, cups and silverware. Terri and Suzy confiscated the doodled dinnerware and donated it to the <a href="http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/index.html">Dodd Center.</a></span></span>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-32219975160831454892011-10-13T19:53:00.000-07:002011-10-13T19:53:48.295-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56sdtV8Cw6H7OHwUWIxWvg0lHtFLqx-1gmmrMahAfvkyg0wFgb4lCFF6cuQs4NDKc_62jlk2WPjKeJF3ibrpXJhHxacOEWMO2KcGHjlvMzW81iTuzFaQr90RXmZtb2QH1HFjd8OiL4oc/s1600/SocietyIllusflier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56sdtV8Cw6H7OHwUWIxWvg0lHtFLqx-1gmmrMahAfvkyg0wFgb4lCFF6cuQs4NDKc_62jlk2WPjKeJF3ibrpXJhHxacOEWMO2KcGHjlvMzW81iTuzFaQr90RXmZtb2QH1HFjd8OiL4oc/s400/SocietyIllusflier.jpg" width="397" /></a></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll be speaking, along with Marla Frazee and Paul Zelinsky, at the Society of Illustrators in New York City next month.</span>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-79523417368471333092011-09-13T12:10:00.000-07:002011-09-13T12:10:39.271-07:00Communication Arts Design Annual<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpFvICh8kxIDIeEmNddPVkuutbHsyH390CJlJCfZ4cOhgJoLrBy4KBsZFZOQ4v8Y9ukjPB9YjuP9HLJobAtzJ5VaTuFby34V6YyRqIdjK3gFM6CEBVHqRXWp9-i7L3MSGOGQnOwwrYSrY/s1600/ca.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpFvICh8kxIDIeEmNddPVkuutbHsyH390CJlJCfZ4cOhgJoLrBy4KBsZFZOQ4v8Y9ukjPB9YjuP9HLJobAtzJ5VaTuFby34V6YyRqIdjK3gFM6CEBVHqRXWp9-i7L3MSGOGQnOwwrYSrY/s400/ca.JPG" width="317" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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Yeah, you betcha!</span>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-74321887372417769522011-07-26T06:35:00.000-07:002011-07-26T06:35:53.175-07:00Vacation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPKcJk_QzKjZ1HuZ_C9Mxu2XtaYQ5DajNmqhqprLEwTuYhrfP1A8kBKAW_zG9lzoiXrbotA4fi0vkXgudbMIlg6yN4XT0IFiDqHiNhCgfsurRHYj99fT-So_EcdmgBp2ouc8Y8yp7Kt-k/s1600/vacation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPKcJk_QzKjZ1HuZ_C9Mxu2XtaYQ5DajNmqhqprLEwTuYhrfP1A8kBKAW_zG9lzoiXrbotA4fi0vkXgudbMIlg6yN4XT0IFiDqHiNhCgfsurRHYj99fT-So_EcdmgBp2ouc8Y8yp7Kt-k/s400/vacation.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was happy to get a call last week from Brad Walters, art director of the Health and Science section of the Washington Post. The assignment appears in today's paper.</span>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-88615698046701273002011-07-11T07:41:00.000-07:002011-07-11T07:42:48.857-07:00Double Bill<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2BUvV31ILezkI3aKU_owKz1FkdWOv0y2s442gQwjxgSB1TTDQTvHB7XEtD_bXnMowpA_HOFMroQrqPgZ9OBW-fnGsjPrZqNmnSLhY1qj322pk79uI6bN4u1RB90rJ6j4v3R-bNPsE8BU/s1600/FrankandI.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2BUvV31ILezkI3aKU_owKz1FkdWOv0y2s442gQwjxgSB1TTDQTvHB7XEtD_bXnMowpA_HOFMroQrqPgZ9OBW-fnGsjPrZqNmnSLhY1qj322pk79uI6bN4u1RB90rJ6j4v3R-bNPsE8BU/s400/FrankandI.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had the great privilege of reading and signing books yesterday at Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn with author/illustrator Frank Viva. His new book, Along a Long Road, is just lovely.</span>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-27617105775718794252011-06-23T18:51:00.000-07:002011-06-23T18:51:08.946-07:00My op-ed art is da bomb!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaXj96hqeWJ1nbbcnBN_kJqGalVdBXoewvqV7pYxdvhIHdNoQOwxO5tP_Y8K34cmpxc8_93LIYmNcz6PnqKx0zMCwoMzvXLuyBKLfbio8SxmKGz8n1d9xkswBzr3ikHfDWo-ARwwBbFvc/s1600/op-ed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaXj96hqeWJ1nbbcnBN_kJqGalVdBXoewvqV7pYxdvhIHdNoQOwxO5tP_Y8K34cmpxc8_93LIYmNcz6PnqKx0zMCwoMzvXLuyBKLfbio8SxmKGz8n1d9xkswBzr3ikHfDWo-ARwwBbFvc/s400/op-ed.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-80667223487833848172011-05-17T07:37:00.000-07:002011-05-17T07:37:04.265-07:00Horn Book ad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTsJRaLTuB7KHGwoQ8eWSI6OLODGaizMDRDzi0v66WuMP1E5LAqVSXnUJJZnDSp39KdfthquOhYVADWlPS_5aUoB90GKNW-qHyMAKk6MwyM5-KDJ8CSXcPvYa-veU8AgmG5-6CdKoEWhM/s1600/Hornbookad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTsJRaLTuB7KHGwoQ8eWSI6OLODGaizMDRDzi0v66WuMP1E5LAqVSXnUJJZnDSp39KdfthquOhYVADWlPS_5aUoB90GKNW-qHyMAKk6MwyM5-KDJ8CSXcPvYa-veU8AgmG5-6CdKoEWhM/s320/Hornbookad.jpg" width="260" /></a></div>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-72628618045698657982011-05-06T08:08:00.000-07:002011-05-06T12:12:15.635-07:00Walrus celebrates literacy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIUUqsGRyhY47LkR3-OdTE9YIW3dyOxuMSFQIQNOpyMaRKmEgtC8SOOmUgSiQrnv3lTA2lxGsG9au61QpAe0RbJ_OJwyeIQHhKpVuMPxu9_xzeFtxlBu17Cp66clT233Q1sfx52vfm7Hc/s1600/posterwithtype.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIUUqsGRyhY47LkR3-OdTE9YIW3dyOxuMSFQIQNOpyMaRKmEgtC8SOOmUgSiQrnv3lTA2lxGsG9au61QpAe0RbJ_OJwyeIQHhKpVuMPxu9_xzeFtxlBu17Cp66clT233Q1sfx52vfm7Hc/s400/posterwithtype.jpg" width="307" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year, Scholastic launched a global literacy campaign: “Read Every Day. Lead a Better Life”. Yesterday, I had the great privilege of joining 11 other artists marking the event, and we spent the day wining, dining and signing at the company headquarters in New York. Each of us created posters for the campaign, and original lithographs of the images were auctioned off. One of the posters had a Big Red Dog on it... and looked <i>vaguely</i> familiar. That's right. Norman Bridwell, who turned 83 this year, was there in attendance, along with his darling wife, Norma. Meeting the couple was an honor and a pleasure, and I was humbled to discover that Norman created Clifford in 1963— two years before I was born!</span><br />
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</span>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-53465334203504075242011-04-12T09:33:00.000-07:002011-04-12T18:17:32.438-07:00Brooklyn's in the house!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimetDfLropIOi3aSbODF5AjFMU-XizD8_1ijPWFLv-Le3ZoPeaWjB2mIyjOZw-BV7v7tr-l9DGojqPxsljERwt33VEd2ekTbDcEBnJJ8zAtsX-qE9YPGX6iy0HFCq8oBdsJKr7trOhCS8/s1600/BPL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimetDfLropIOi3aSbODF5AjFMU-XizD8_1ijPWFLv-Le3ZoPeaWjB2mIyjOZw-BV7v7tr-l9DGojqPxsljERwt33VEd2ekTbDcEBnJJ8zAtsX-qE9YPGX6iy0HFCq8oBdsJKr7trOhCS8/s640/BPL.jpg" width="414" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spent the morning at the Brooklyn Public Library, speaking to 200 kindergardeners, first graders and second graders from PS 9 and PS 282. Thanks to my gracious hosts Paquita Campoverde and Judy Zuckerman.</span>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-11777902605206860872011-04-05T08:17:00.000-07:002011-04-05T08:24:02.186-07:00The Fathers Are Coming Home to Bank Street<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNMWQC4mJODy5HNn5DH35e0Koi7I4KJ20jd1-ZnZ_B3s26lyq2Zz0jYxr0Sqnr_TlLrcvNlrhWhprCg7c3dCGgAeni2l_ka6kP9wJqnmuspDt_2a45wDtXULUBajMz6jm9QO9CrWEBx8M/s1600/Bank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNMWQC4mJODy5HNn5DH35e0Koi7I4KJ20jd1-ZnZ_B3s26lyq2Zz0jYxr0Sqnr_TlLrcvNlrhWhprCg7c3dCGgAeni2l_ka6kP9wJqnmuspDt_2a45wDtXULUBajMz6jm9QO9CrWEBx8M/s400/Bank.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Last year, I illustrated Margaret Wise Brown's lost text, <i>The Fathers Are Coming Home. </i>I'm delighted to report that the<i> </i>Bank Street College of Education just included the picture book in their 2011 Best Children's Books of the Year. </span>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-68244044674733087102011-03-22T13:20:00.000-07:002011-03-22T13:22:15.890-07:003 starred reviews for Where's Walrus?<div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div><div data-ft="{"type":"attach"}"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMySwjm9hDulmwtn-PlkOsEt6icwfomQQSx6lUaZWgByXtxyhs_6DiGXUxLTxReHIRh84D_VU4eNI37NA7ZXxJ760ZfdLzBAPp49mQr4VdKiUemUL_RH9AiF_VwWU5LMBw5dTV41Pi4IU/s1600/postreview.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMySwjm9hDulmwtn-PlkOsEt6icwfomQQSx6lUaZWgByXtxyhs_6DiGXUxLTxReHIRh84D_VU4eNI37NA7ZXxJ760ZfdLzBAPp49mQr4VdKiUemUL_RH9AiF_VwWU5LMBw5dTV41Pi4IU/s320/postreview.jpg" width="282" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">“Refreshing, captivating, elegant and witty.”</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>-- Kirkus Reviews </i>(starred review)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div><div style="text-align: center;">“The satisfyingly circular ending gives Where’s Walrus? a flipper up</div><div style="text-align: center;">on that guy in the striped shirt.”</div></div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>-- Horn Book </i>(starred review)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;">“Younger children will giggle at his visual gags”.</div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>-- Publisher's Weekly </i>(starred review)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">“An especially funny and stylishly retro-looking option for this</div><div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;">nursery-school crowd.”</div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>-- The Wall Street Journal</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">“[Where's Walrus?] allows young readers to feel one-up on the adult who’s supposedly in charge. What more could any child want?”</div></div></div><div><div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>-- The Washington Post</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;">“It's a thrill of the chase for all.”</div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>-- Chicago Tribune</i></div></div></div></div></div><div><br />
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The kindergartners and first graders of the Brooklyn Charter School joined me in the Marcy Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library last week for a reading. Thanks to my host librarian Bobby Simic.Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-86575084303892415942011-03-13T10:55:00.000-07:002011-03-13T10:56:18.376-07:00Word Up Walrus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlGSvHgJNAPKKIiDaMLVtQDQTgWTPl41SNfQa-vC5gaWgsUvN-ygzAOdIvCwAa7ItlHxtuWvvE_sXajJtubsw4QtFFfSwHhTDD9oE_Ksq9TqDV7_7DL10kFf73SHD0tTGXc4e2iqielas/s1600/WORDS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlGSvHgJNAPKKIiDaMLVtQDQTgWTPl41SNfQa-vC5gaWgsUvN-ygzAOdIvCwAa7ItlHxtuWvvE_sXajJtubsw4QtFFfSwHhTDD9oE_Ksq9TqDV7_7DL10kFf73SHD0tTGXc4e2iqielas/s400/WORDS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walrus at WORDS in Maplewood, New Jersey, 3/12/11.</span>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212608884459031232.post-934989692608542242011-03-08T09:24:00.000-08:002011-03-15T10:09:08.594-07:00School Visit<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I paid a visit last week to Columbia Grammar and Prep School in Manhattan. I enjoyed spending almost 2 full days there, and at the end of the visit, was presented with wonderful drawings of Walrus by the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">kindergartners</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. My gracious hosts, librarians Nancy Seklir, Naomi Toder and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Heather Talty</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, made me feel right at home.</span>Stephen Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13496033488602057688noreply@blogger.com0