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Jan.03.2013
Children’s-book authors Lemony Snicket and Lisa Brown, the team behind The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story, tell The Daily Beast about the zine they started and how they inspire each other.
Where did you grow up?
Lisa Brown: In a suburb of Hartford, Conn. My family were...
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Jun.30.2010
the first Atlantic Monthly cover from November, 1857
In honor of the sweltering weekend that Adele and I spent in Washington DC for the American Library Association (ALA) annual conference, a post about a man of ice…
WHEN I WAS LOOKING for a poem that Quinn could cut out from the paper and...
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Jun.18.2010
AND HERE, a promised follow-up to my previous post. My models for our more minor characters, no less beloved.
Mavis, the maid.
Mrs. Sullivan, the Pritchett's cook.
Nathaniel Dearborn, a wounded soldier with a secret.
Heinrich Geist, spirit photographer.
Viviette, his housemaid and model.
Mr....
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Jun.03.2010
ALMOST EVERY CHARACTER in Picture the Dead has a real-life 19th century counterpart, unearthed from the archives of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Here are some of my models and their correspondant illustrated selves.
Our heroine, Jennie Lovell.
Jennie's...
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May.05.2010
By Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown
"... if you love children's literature, you cannot kill animals just because they taste good on a bun. There's more than a bit of hypocrisy involved in urging children to empathize with pandas and polar bears and bunnies and ducks in books and at a distance and...
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Apr.20.2010
Here's the poster for the Picture the Dead evening Adele Griffin and I will be presenting at San Francisco's fabulous Booksmith on May 6th. Red Room will be there with its first ever live author webcast, which you can watch starting at 7:30 p.m. here. I hope you and your ghostly companions will...
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Apr.14.2010
My favorite children's book? Well that's an impossible question. Children's books are often grouped en masse into their own genre, shoving picture books, early readers, middle grade novels and teen fiction willy-nilly into a great big undifferentiated pile. I mean, really, how does one...
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Mar.25.2010
FOR YEARS AND YEARS, I have been collaborating on this Illustrated-Young-Adult-Civil-War-Ghost-Story called Picture the Dead with the lovely and talented YA author Adele Griffin, (She's not a young adult, she writes for young adults.). It's finally hitting bookstore shelves this coming May, 2010....
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Dec.07.2007
"I had been reading all of these sappy board books," says Brown, who is mother to a two-and-a-half-year-old, "and my son is learning how to say goodnight to the moon and pat a bunny, but nothing really interesting to me."
So Brown asked herself, what interests me? Cocktails...
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About Lisa
LISA BROWN is the bestselling illustrator and/or author of a growing number of books, including How to Be, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming, and Baby Mix Me a Drink. Picture the Dead, an illustrated YA Civil War ghost story written with author Adele...
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