#mac barnett

[kheldara]

carson ellis the illustrator you are!!

[sstri]

Niles in the First Cat in Space artstyle because they share an author

Reference

[the-final-sentence]

Let us also make new children's books!

Mac Barnett, from Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children

[dinonfissatoaffetto]

Oh, quanto amiamo i bambini. Ma non li rispettiamo davvero. Tendiamo a pensare che abbiano menti meno sofisticate, capaci di emozioni intense, ma semplici. Di sicuro crediamo che i bambini non possano essere intelligenti e complessi quanto noi adulti. Diciamocelo, quali spe- ranze possono avere di capire la narrativa letteraria se molti di loro non sono neanche capaci di allacciarsi le scarpe?

E se invece avessimo sbagliato tutto?

Se i bambini fossero il pubblico perfetto per l'arte? Se fossero i lettori ideali per la narrativa letteraria? Se in realtà fossero equipaggiati meglio degli adulti per farsi coinvolgere profondamente dalle storie?

Se lo scopo di un'educazione artistica non fosse solo quello di accumulare nuove capacità, ma anche quello di risvegliare sensibilità a lungo sopite? Se la capacità di apprezzare l'arte fosse, non dico innata, ma attiva molto presto durante l'infanzia?

Be', allora dovremmo fare del nostro meglio per produrre degli ottimi libri per bambini.

- Mac Barnett

[literarygoals]

“The Grammar of Fantasy” is a tonic for anyone disheartened by our current zeal for STEM — curriculums emphasizing science, technology, engineering and mathematics — which often leaves little room for the unquantifiable benefits and innumerable joys of the humanities. A few years back, somebody had the idea to cram “art” into the mix, creating the new, much less substantial acronym STEAM. The whole thing was embarrassing, like when the office chips in to buy Jessica a cake for her birthday, a pretty one with “Happy Birthday, Jessica!” written on it, and then someone remembers that it’s also Carl’s birthday, so they scrawl “and Carl” in a different color. As anyone with a good arts education could have predicted, STEAM didn’t stick.

-Mac Barnett; A Literary Genius Who Championed Nonsense, The New York Times

[tvbrittanyf]

As #ShapeIsland Season 2 is now on Apple TV+ we talk to creators Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen about the season's biggest episode, why TV and books can work together, and the joy of rhombuses!

Shape Island creators Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen delve into Season 2—and a rhombus

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From "The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse" by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen

[austinkleon]

(‘Battle Bunny,’ by Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett - The New York Times)

Thanks to a clever book design, “Battle Bunny” has two layers of text: The first is the “Birthday Bunny” story, printed on each page as in an ordinary book. But most of the words of that story have been crossed out and replaced with handwritten ones, so that the old story is reconfigured to tell an entirely new one about a power-mad rabbit bent on destroying the world.