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  • Be Careful What You Wish For

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    Judy Butler
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    This is on the copyright page of Bill Thomson’s books: “Bill Thomson embraced traditional painting techniques and meticulously painted each illustration by hand, using acrylic paint and colored pencils. His illustrations are not photographs or computer generated images.” This statement gives you an idea of Thomson’s hyperrealistic illustrations. I own The Typewriter (2016). The cover…

  • Sandra Louise Woodward Darling

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    Judy Butler
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    A friend pulled Carl’s Afternoon in the Park (1991) from a bookstore shelf and said, “You’ve got to see this.” That was in 1992. What fun it’s been finding books by Alexandra Day ever since. Carl is an enormous Rottweiler that looks after a child while his owners are away. The idea for this series…

  • Only similar, not the same

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    Judy Butler
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    Flostsam (2006) started me on a quest to find books by David Wiesner. His imagination and craft are expontentially different from any other author/illustrator. Flotsam is a large book with a bold red cover: a fish’s head with a huge camera lens-like eye smack in the center of the picture. The main character in this…