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Laurie Buchanan, Like Father Like Son, Big Bad Wolves, The Devil’s Due,...
Laurie Buchanan wins prestigious award by Sam Juliano Out very dear friend, the gifted mountain of effervescent and good will, the irrepressible midwesterner and erstwhile holistic practitioner Laurie...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Nino Wrestles the World by Yuyi Morales
by Sam Juliano Adorned in colorful marquee style on the star-bordered end papers of Yuri Morales’ spectacularly-popular Nino Wrestles the World are placards of some truly fearsome and nightmarish...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Parrots Over Puerto Rico (ill. by Susan L. Roth)
by Sam Juliano We inherited two amazon parrots four years ago. Through suggestions posed by the kids we named the older one “Roy” and the much younger one, “Blue.” Though we still haven’t...
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Snow is falling furiously in New Jersey: A short video by Melanie Juliano
Video by Melanie Juliano
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“If We Had Wings”: THE COENS’‘INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS’
© 2014 by James Clark Two folksingers, Jean and Llewyn, at a time (1961) and place (Greenwich Village) supposedly welcoming to their calling, are in a coffee house discussing her imminent abortion....
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Caldecott Medal Contender: On A Beam of Light by Jennifer Berne (ill. by...
by Sam Juliano Picture book lovers who hanker for something unique in their biographies will find a treasure trove of lyrical prose and magnificent splintered beige illustrations that bring just the...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Flora and the Flamingo by Molly Idle
by Sam Juliano The great irony in the early-age pink lemonade picture book Flora and the Flamingo is that boys seem to like it just as much as the girls. This is one of the year’s most innovative...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Inside Outside by Lizi Boyd
by Sam Juliano Every once in a while a picture book appears that leaves you awe-struck and joyous at the future prospects of the medium. Such an example is Lizi Boyd’s wordless picture book Inside...
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Caldecott Medal Contenders: ‘Dusk,’‘Mr. Wuffles’ and ‘The Tortoise and the Hare’
by Sam Juliano Friday afternoon’s post will focus on the most recent works of three picture book veterans who are rightly considered among the greatest artists of all-time. Each have won endless...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great by Bob Shea
by Sam Juliano “….this is one of the rare books where I cannot for the life of me figure out how anything in the title could be better. it’s about a friggin unicorn who eats glitter and rainbows and...
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Caldecott Medal Contenders: ‘The Tree Lady’ and ‘Who Says Women Can’t Be...
by Sam Juliano This afternoon’s post considers two biographies of women who are not likely to be immediately recognized either by name or deed. Yet both books are exceedingly beautiful in execution...
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Caldecott Medal Contenders: ‘The Dark’ and ‘Battle Bunny’
by Sam Juliano Two of 2013′s most popular picture books in the stores and the libraries are also two of the most brilliantly-conceived and artistically accomplished of the year. They are united on...
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Caldecott Contenders Final Post and Round-Up
by Sam Juliano For the final post in my long-running Caldecott Medal contender series I will provide the covers of five final books that that must surely be considered in the running. At least two of...
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Faure’s ‘Requiem’ and Mozart’s “Mass in C’ by Choral Art Society of New...
Choral Art Society of New Jersey after classical performance in Westfield, New Jersey Will Aaron Becker be wearing the Caldecott Gold for JOURNEY today? by Sam Juliano A blustery cold afternoon outside...
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‘Locomotive’ wins Caldecott Medal
by Sam Juliano Brian Floca’s dazzling picture picture book Locomotive, which relates a family’s cross-country journey from a depot in Omaha, Nebraska to the new home that is waiting for them in San...
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The Great Beauty – 2013, Paolo Sorrentino
by Allan Fish (Italy 2013 142m) DVD1/2 Aka. La grande bellezza All the rest is just disappointment and fatigue p Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano d Paolo Sorrentino w Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto...
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Straits of Love and Hate – 1937, Kenji Mizoguchi
by Allan Fish (Japan 1937 89m) not on DVD Aka. Aien kyo All your answers were “no”s d Kenji Mizoguchi w Kenji Mizoguchi, Yoshikata Yoda, Matsutaro Kawaguchi novel “Eesurrection” by Leo Tolstoy...
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Congrats to Patricia Hamilton on Seattle Super Bowl Victory and Oscar...
by Sam Juliano A dull cold kept the NYC area on chill mode for most of the past week, with one day off good behavior. That day was of course Super Bowl Sunday, traditionally one of the most...
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Children of Hiroshima – 1952, Kaneto Shindo
by Allan Fish (Japan 1952 97m) DVD6 (Hong Kong only) Aka. Gembaku no ko The consolation of living p Kozaburo Yoshimura d/w Kaneto Shindo ph Takeo Ito m Akira Ifukibe art Takashi Marumo...
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SPIKE JONZE’S HER “I can feel we are together!”
© 2014 by James Clark After Theodore, the protagonist of Her (2013), completes a spate of ghost writing in his capacity as writer #612 at Beautiful Handwritten Letters, Limited, by putting himself...
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