Chris Barton's Blog: Bartography, page 22
August 5, 2019
“I’ve had to create my own education … I learned how to be subversive in picture books, to say more than meets a first read.” (2-question Q&A and giveaway for August 2019)
Welcome to the Q&A and giveaway for the August edition of my Bartography Express newsletter (which you can sign up for here). My Q&A this month is with Las Vegas-based author and illustrator Daria Peoples-Riley, creator of the new picture book I Got Next. I Got Next was published last week by Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins, which […]
August 1, 2019
Whoosh! subject Lonnie Johnson last month at Kennedy Library Forums
As I write this, I’m listening to the audio of Lonnie Johnson’s presentation this past July 20 at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Even for someone who knows Lonnie Johnson’s story well, this telling of it is riveting. For those not quite ready to consume an hour — even a fascinating hour […]
July 12, 2019
“What was Left Out, Powered by PechaKucha,” from TLA 2019
Twenty presentation slides, 20 seconds per slide, no stopping. Four hundred seconds long, period. That’s PechaKucha. At the Texas Library Association conference this past April, I participated — alongside Christina Soontornvat, Susan Fletcher, Traci Sorell, and Varian Johnson — in what we believe to be the first-ever PechaKucha TLA session, orchestrated by our fellow author […]
July 8, 2019
The cover of my next book, All of a Sudden and Forever
My next book, All of a Sudden and Forever: Help and Healing After the Oklahoma City Bombing, is a nonfiction picture book illustrated by Nicole Xu. It’s scheduled to be published on February 4, 2020, by Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing. On June 27, I shared the book’s cover — and performed my first-ever public reading of […]
July 4, 2019
“In this story, it’s not that we’re uncovering a villain, we’re uncovering the helper, the one who connects us to our inner resources.” (2-question Q&A and giveaway for July 2019)
Welcome to the Q&A and giveaway for the July edition of my Bartography Express newsletter (which you can sign up for here). My Q&A this month is with Katherena Vermette and Julie Flett, creators of the new picture book The Girl and the Wolf, published by Theytus Books, a First Nations-owned and operated publisher of […]
July 3, 2019
Bibliography for All of a Sudden and Forever
The back matter for All of a Sudden and Forever: Help and Healing After the Oklahoma City Bombing will include my author’s note, Nicole Xu’s illustrator’s note, biographical information about interviewees, and suggestions for further reading. With all this material that Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing does include in those final pages, there wasn’t room to also […]
July 1, 2019
10 years and still glowing strong
Happy 10th anniversary to my first book, The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer’s Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors — illustrated by Tony Persiani, and published on this day in 2009 by Charlesbridge!
June 28, 2019
In which I discuss Barbara Jordan with a shaggy blue puppet
Hey, it’s me on The Van Show! Talking about What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? with the Austin Public Library’s spokespuppet was truly a highlight of my experiences at this spring’s Texas Library Association conference. And a highlight of that highlight was being able to show Van the Barbara Jordan statue that […]
June 20, 2019
Come say hey at the Shenandoah University Children’s Literature Conference!
Librarians and other educators in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., I’m looking forward to seeing many of you next week at the Shenandoah University Children’s Literature Conference in Winchester, Virginia. I’m excited about not only delivering a brand-new presentation — “Who Am I, and Why Did I Write This Book?” — but also […]
June 13, 2019
First Day-Glo, then Dazzle, now Glitter!
First I wrote about daylight fluorescent colors — those superbright oranges and yellows and pinks and greens — in The Day-Glo Brothers. A bit later, I tackled another visually inventive topic — camouflage — in Dazzle Ships. Now, word is out about an upcoming nonfiction picture book of mine in the same vein: Glitter Everywhere: […]
