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Wombat Art!

Posted by Sarah L. Thomson on Nov 13, 2020 in BOOK: Wombat Underground, Children's Literature, Illustration, Uncategorized | 0 comments

So excited to see some sample art from the talented Charles Santoso for WOMBAT UNDERGROUND. Love the richness of the colors and the contrast between under- and aboveground!

Congrats!

Posted by Sarah L. Thomson on Jan 28, 2020 in Children's Literature, Uncategorized | 0 comments

Congratulations to all the amazing artists and writers and editors who created this year’s award winners!

The Newbery to a graphic novel–first time in history!–and a Newbery Honor to a picture book text. My, my. The committee was very avant garde this year. Love it! Cheers to all!

Fingers Crossed

Posted by Sarah L. Thomson on Dec 3, 2019 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

The choice of an artist really creates a picture book–it doesn’t truly exist until art and words come together. The lovely and talented Erin Robinson is considering illustrating one of my picture book manuscripts at the moment. With her it would be a dreamy, rich, poetic, evocative, emotional book. Keep your fingers crossed, everyone–I really want to see the book that would result from her art and my words!

You Can Never Go Back

Posted by Sarah L. Thomson on Nov 21, 2019 in Childhood, Children's Literature, Uncategorized | 0 comments

So many wonderful lines in this amazing essay by Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, I can’t keep myself from quoting:

I’d trade sex and booze and wisdom—all the best parts about being Grown—if I could have back [childhood]. Colors brighter, smells stronger, days bleeding on forever, and oh . . . reading. In childhood, there’s almost nothing to keep you from reading.

Kid’s books are where I personally learned most everything important about the world: About rape and sinister men from Beatrix Potter’s Jemima Puddle-Duck; about eroticism from Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen; about feminism from P.L Travers’ maverick goddess Mary Poppins; about loss and the unceasing progress of time from E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web.

And lots more. Go read it!

You Can Never Go Back: On Loving Children’s Books as an Adult