Mac Barnett's Blog, page 2

An email from Virginia: “After school today, my son...

An email from Virginia: “After school today, my son promptly made you out of LEGO, complete with a red cup of coffee. He is bringing you to school for show and tell tomorrow.” 

From Hilary Leung at ninjacowboybear:#Lego #PictureBooks Book...

From Hilary Leung at ninjacowboybear:

#Lego #PictureBooks Book #35 “Oh No!: Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World” by @MacBarnett & @DSantat
A fantastic story about a young girl who wins 1st place at the science fair. Unfortunately her giant robot starts to rampage! Did I mention that the robot also has a superclaw, laser eye and the power to control dogs’ minds? Well, after many failed attempts to stop the ear-less, illiterate robot that can’t feel pain, our hero hatches a new plan. This naturally involved creating a giant attack toad to combat the giant robot… Barnett’s highly imaginative story is too much fun! And Santat’s awesome artwork is chock full of so many delicious details like the brilliant frog montage and robot blue print end papers to name just two… TWO GIANT THUMBS UP!!

"Small and inconspicuous space in the welter of present-day printing is given to the description and..."

“Small and inconspicuous space in the welter of present-day printing is given to the description and criticism of [children’s] books, and yet the finest type of writing, illustrating, and printing goes into them.”

- The first-ever Horn Book editorial, 1924.

Here’s what it’d look like if the WSJ ran a feature about @macbarnett as the star of a...

Here’s what it’d look like if the WSJ ran a feature about @macbarnett as the star of a cop show in the 80’s: twitter.com/MrAdamRex/stat…

— Adam Rex (@MrAdamRex) March 18, 2013

Photo

Photo

Some Portraits by Eleanor Davis and Drew Weing

by Drew (pictured: Christian Robinson, Jon Klassen, me, and Nikki McClure)

By Eleanor (pictured: me, Carson Ellis, Jon Klassen, Carson Ellis again, Greg Pizzoli)

Guess Again! in Istanbul

Okuduğumuz kitap “Guess Again” Amerikalı cocuk kitabı yazarı Mac Barnett ve resimleyen Adam Rex. Muthisler!! twitter.com/EzoSunal/statu…

— Ezo Sunal (@EzoSunal) November 13, 2012

Miami Book Fair International

I’ll be in Miami this weekend: Saturday, 17 November 2012, 10 a.m.: Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, 300 N.E. Second Ave. Room 1164 

Photo of Eugène Ionesco by Richard Avedon

Photo of Eugène Ionesco by Richard Avedon