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Artworks from my new book project now live on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/-vlad/a-silly-little-book-of-pictures-and-rhymes-board-book
🌞It's a small board book with whimsical illustrations, so be sure to take a look, support it, share it and help spread the word, it would be truly appreciated! Thank you so much🙏
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Paw Patrol: Pup, Pup, Colors! (2016)
Story: Erin Rose Grobarek -- Art: Fabrizio Petrossi & Harry Moore
#paw patrol#pup pup colors#marshall#rubble#ryder#cali#colours#2010s#10s#board books#kid books#picture books#children's books#kidlit
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Me: Hey, I was browsing Amazon the other day and found the cutest thing!
Sister: What?
Me: Board book adaptations of classic works of literature for toddlers!
Sister: Huh. That’s...interesting. What books?
Me: The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan...
Sister: Aw, that is-
Me: Anne of Green Gables, A Christmas Carol...
Sister: What?
Me: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pride and Prejudice...
Sister: .....
Me: Jane Eyre, Les Miserables...
Sister: You’re making this up!
Am I?????
I have since informed both my sisters that, should they have kids, they will be receiving the Pride and Prejudice one as a baby shower gift, thereby cementing my position as Cool Aunt (TM). They...didn’t seem impressed.
#pride and prejudice#jane austen#jane eyre#charlotte bronte#les miserables#victor hugo#a midsummer night's dream#shakespeare#william shakespeare#books!#book#booklr#board books
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Captain Marvel Soars Above (A Marvel Hello Heroes Book) is out later this month!
#it’s sooooop cuteeeeee#carol danvers#captain marvel#marvel comics#board books#kids literature#marvel#books#chewie the flerken
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My little gremlin likes to do this thing lately that I like to call Book Club. With help from Mommy, she has her plushies sit and read books with her.
Here from left to right, we have Peter Rabbit reading The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, Little Nutbrown Hare reading Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney (illustrated by Anita Jeram), and Ikea T-rex reading Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs by Sandra Boynton .
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My new favorite past time is looking at one star reviews for children's books. Anyway here's some highlights
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shout out to board book publishers who put age ranges on the back, because i sure as shit don't know what level of complexity children prone to chewing on their literature can handle
#text#personal#books#board books#AND those fuckers are spensie lmao#but hey now i have bird related board books for my coworkers' spawn 🤣#worth it to support the nature center too 😌
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Eric Carle’s “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”
#illustration#he’s just a little guy#artists on tumblr#digital art#very hungry caterpillar#caterpillar#eric carle#kid lit#kid lit art#picture book#board books
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what makes a great board book?
From whose perspective? Like, what makes a great book for the intended audience, aka, babies? Probably "edibility", "texture", "mouthfeel" would be up there. For the parents who have to read them? I guess "re-readability", "non-UGH-ness" and "makes babies pass out" would all be high on the list. :-)
From MY perspective, a great board book is cute, feels good in my hands, it's fun to read aloud, it's not too wordy, and babies WANT to hear it over and over.
The question you DIDN'T ask (but now everyone is thinking) -- why aren't agents looking for original board books?
Welp, it's not easy to sell original board books and here's why. They are quite expensive to publish! (even more so now that there are paper shortages, etc). And they have a low price point. (Parents simply will NOT pay more than x-amount for them, despite inflation and everything else).
That means they have very thin margins, royalties are generally lower than they would be for picture books, and the publisher needs to save money (or maximize profit) wherever they can, and they prefer to publish "sure things". Therefore, most board books you see in stores fall into the following buckets:
--Smallened version of already successful picture book -- In other words, it's not an original board book, it's just a reformatted picture book. ALL THE WORLD, THE HONEYBEE, EVERYWHERE BABIES, etc. These are already proven successful - and more importantly, they already own the rights to publish the book, so while the creators DO get a (low) royalty, the publisher doesn't have to pay for the book again.
--Baby version of already popular character/world-- So like, everyone loves DRAGONS LOVE TACOS -- now you can get DRAGON'S FIRST TACO. The VAMOS books are popular, now there are spinoff board books with simple English/Spanish words and phrases and little characters from those bigger books. Pete the Cat's Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - "text" already exists. You get the picture. These are already proven successful characters/worlds, have name/visual recognition for customers, and are relatively easy to create (short text, simple art, etc.) The creators do get a (low) advance and (low) royalty but it's just basically an "add on" to an already existing world.
--Simple concept books created in-house by the publisher-- Many MANY concept books you see in stores fall into this bucket -- like Priddy books, DK baby books, etc. If people already on payroll are writing the (minimal) text and designing the book, they don't have to pay creators at all. Or, maybe they write the text and then hire an illustrator on a flat fee.
This is not to say that we CAN'T sell original board books - I have sold a small handful of them over the years, and one of my colleagues reps a couple of folks who create original novelty books. (Novelty books being like board books but with "extra" -- like flaps, textures, whirly bits, etc). But they tend to be art-forward, created by an illustrator-who-also-writes, rather than a writer + illustrator pairing like many Picture Books. And again, they often have a cute novelty aspect. Like the MAIL DUCK books, which have a lift-the-flap element. (But the same $$$ problem arises with novelty for sure! Expensive to print, low price point = publishers being gun-shy.)
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📢NEW Picture Book Alert
📖I Love My Beautiful Hair
Elissa Wentt
Ages: 2 and up
Pages: 20
Cartwheel Books
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The Snuggle Is Real
Written by Melinda Lee Rathjen
Illustrated by Kristyna Litten
#mine#books#picture books#board books#agere#age regression#baby regression#babyre#totre#toddler regression#cglre
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I Spy: Little Hearts (2009)
Rhumes: Jean Marzollo -- Art: Walter Wick
#i spy little hearts#i spy#board books#search and find books#Jean Marzollo#Walter Wick#picture books#kid books#children's books#kidlit#children's literature
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Got a little too excited. This is my next project for my Children's book class. Won't be able to post all of it because its a texture book but I had to share the cover.
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The Little Mermaid (An Usborne Peep Inside a Fairy Tale Book)
In a beautiful fairytale journey above and beneath the waves, the little mermaid learns that the only way to find true happiness is by being herself… Discover the enchanting story in this board book with delicate cutaway scenes to peep through and flaps to lift, all beautifully illustrated by Valeria Abatzoglu.
Another Little Mermaid that is not the real story—but at least it’s not the Happily Ever After most versions seem to be these days!
The peep-through pages will entertain children for ages. It’s a cleverly-constructed book with more detail than I’m used to with board books. I thought it was very well-done, and there’s always something new to see in the pictures.
Blending all kinds of cultures (it’s a Danish story, but we have a Prince Ali with his gold-domed palace and European servants and guests), I’ve noticed these Usborne books tend to weave diversity in.
I’ve seen many odd versions of this fairy tale since Disney ruined it, but the ending of this one was interesting, at least. It’s an ending without being either a full, Disney marriage and without the tragedy of the original story.
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Out now, just in time for the spring collection, here are the covers I provided Art Direction for on The MET's latest board books, MET Colours and MET Black and White!
I hope you'll agree it's the season's must have accessory for the cultured kids in your life, and they are both very worthy of hanging in a gallery space themselves!
#chris gould#cgsketchbook.com#book cover#book design#publishing design#art direction#the metropolitan museum of art#board books#colours#color#black and white#high contrast
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