HANS DE BEER “Little Polar Bear”

TOMIE DE PAOLA “The Knight and the Dragon”

JULES FEIFFER “Bark, George”

JULES FEIFFER “I Lost My Bear”

NEIL GAIMAN AND DAVE MCKEAN “The Wolves in the Walls”

ARTHUR GEISERT “The Giant Ball of String”

STEVE GOODMAN AND MICHAEL MCCURDY “The Train They Call the City of New Orleans”

RUSSELL HOBAN AND LILLIAN HOBAN “Bread and Jam for Frances”

MUNRO LEAF AND ROBERT LAWSON “The Story of Ferdinand”

ASTRID LINDGREN AND HARALD WIBERG “The Tomten and the Fox”

PEGGY RATHMANN “The Day the Babies Crawled Away”

COLEEN SALLEY AND JANET STEVENS “Epossumondas”

MAURICE SENDAK “In the Night Kitchen”

MARK ALAN STAMATY “Who Needs Donuts?”

SANDRA STEEN, SUSAN STEEN AND G. BRIAN KARAS “Car Wash”

Soman Chainani’s School for Good and Evil comes out next month.  

Here’s what I wrote after reading the manuscript last January:

“It is not often that someone comes along who can reinvent fairy tales and reclaim their magic in ways that are truly for children. Soman Chainani takes the racing energy of Roald Dahl’s language and combines it with the existential intensity of J.K. Rowling’s plots to create his own universe, inhabited by characters we grow to love. THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL uses the sorcery of words and the poetry of friendship to startle, enchant, and keep us turning its pages.”

And for more on the volume and the author’s career:

http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/05/princess-not-so-charming

The first of a trilogy for middle-grade readers (ages nine and up), The School for Good and Evil tracks two archetypal heroines: the lovely Sophie, with her waist-long blond hair and her dreams of becoming a princess, and her friend Agatha, an unattractive, unpopular contrarian who chooses to wear black. A giant bird snatches the pair and carries them off to the School for Good and Evil, a two-pronged magical academy that trains children to become fairy-tale heroes and villains. When, to her horror, Sophie arrives at the Evil branch to learn “uglification,” death curses, and other dark arts, while Agatha finds herself at the School for Good amid handsome princes and fair maidens, the line between good and evil blurs, the meaning of beauty twists, and the girls reveal their true natures.

Beginning June 10, on what would have been Sendak’s 85th birthday, that collection will go on display at the Society of Illustrators in New York. The exhibit, containing more than 200 previously unpublished studies, sketches, and ephemera, will run through August 17. Every piece is from Schiller’s collection.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/56500-unseen-sendak-on-display-art-photography-books-2013.html