Picture book blues
Sorry to be a bit of a downer, folks, but two news stories today gave me a touch of the picture book blues. First, there was word that the Mr. Men and Little Misses books are heading off to new...
View ArticleFine art and books
Hope everyone saw the great piece by Geoff Dyer in the Times Book Review this past Sunday by on the use of Victorian paintings for the jackets of the Penguin Classics back in the 1970s. Yes, it’s quite...
View ArticleThoughts on Maurice Sendak
As I’m sure you’ve all heard, Maurice Sendak passed away this morning at the age of 83. Certainly, I was saddened by the news, as Where the Wild Things Are and the Nutshell Library were a part of my...
View ArticleLiterary playlists
Books and music always seem to go together—they’re sold in the same stores, have similar cult followings (and the traditionalists have similar aversions to new technologies), and require a certain...
View ArticleBehind the scenes of a picture book
It’s been a while since I did a picture book post, much less one that focuses on artwork. But when I came across this blog post on Caldecott Medalist Eric Rohmann’s artistic process, I knew I had to...
View ArticleBrainwash Kids with Books About Books!
This weekend I’ll be back in Michigan for a wedding, and I’ll see a bunch of old friends and the children they’ve produced. So of course my suitcase is full of brightly colored kids’ books! I love...
View ArticleWhat I’m looking for now
With this October marking my third anniversary here at DGLM, I’ve been in a reflective mood. I’ve been thinking about how my client list has developed, how it’s changed over the years, and what kinds...
View ArticleRemembering Pete (the author)
As I’m sure you’ve seen by now, the great folksinger Pete Seeger passed away Monday night at the ripe old age of 94. Like a lot of kids with liberal-minded parents, I grew up with Pete’s music, and I...
View ArticleBooks for young (and very young) readers
For those of you who haven’t read my recent Facebook posts, I have a brand new grandson: Leo Daniel Stein, born on January 20th. Leo joins his six-year-old big sister Elena who is thrilled to have a...
View ArticleLong ago favorites
Inspired by this Buzzfeed post from earlier in the week, I thought back on my favorite illustrated books as a kid. They were mostly fairy tales (or close to), as are the illustrations in that post. I...
View ArticleIllustrators at Dystel.com
In case you haven’t seen it yet, I wanted to use my blog time today to alert readers to a new feature on our website: illustration samples! Over the past few years, we’ve added a good number of...
View ArticleI wish I grew up reading…
It wasn’t too long ago that I became Uncle Mike. My cousin gave birth to a little baby girl, Eleanor. (I know that technically makes me her second cousin, but Second Cousin Mike doesn’t really roll off...
View ArticleTiny readers
As the absurdly proud aunt of exceptionally wonderful nephews—who we’ll call Fidge and Gus, because that is what I call them—I’ve actively made it my mission to get them to associate me with books....
View ArticleThe Blog Post with No Pictures*
Flipping through the internet today, I came across a Vanity Fair interview accompanied by a book trailer for B.J. Novak’s The Book with No Pictures, his children’s book with, well, no pictures. The...
View ArticleWhat I’m looking for now (2014 edition)
The mornings are getting chilly, the leaves are changing, and we just stocked up on pumpkin chai mix at Trader Joe’s—fall must be here! And with the autumn, it’s time for my somwhat annual wish list....
View ArticleGirl power!
Having four daughters and working in book publishing presents both opportunities and challenges as far as finding appropriate books for the girls to read. They are all at different levels, and they all...
View ArticleHooray for picture books
I represent very few picture books, but in my personal life I’m deeply indebted to them. As I’ve mentioned countless times, my nephews are my favorite people on this planet, and at 6 and 3, their...
View ArticleMusic in the air
Maybe it’s due to the long-awaited thaw here in NYC, but everywhere I turn this week it feels like music is in the air. And books about music are demanding to be heard… First, the other night, my son...
View ArticleWhy I love picture books
As I’m sure you heard, there was a massive fire here in New York yesterday afternoon, and it happened just seven blocks away from our office. From our windows, we could see the huge cloud of smoke it...
View ArticleChildren’s Nonfiction
One of the more interesting and unexpected developments in the children’s book industry over the past year or two has been the rise of nonfiction. Publishers Weekly recently ran an article that surveys...
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