Chris Barton's Blog: Bartography, page 41
November 13, 2015
Mr. Schu goes Whoosh!
Over at Watch. Connect. Read., Mr. Schu is unveiling the cover of Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions. That’s my upcoming picture book with Don Tate, the follow up to our first collaboration, The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch. Whoosh!, a biography of the inventor of the Super Soaker water gun, comes out […]
November 7, 2015
Hear me on the Picturebooking podcast
Nick Patton hosted me this week for an interview on the newest edition of his Picturebooking podcast. I loved talking with Nick about ‘The Nutcracker’ Comes to America and The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch and about being married to my favorite author in the whole world, as well as answering his curveballier questions. […]
November 1, 2015
“Chris Barton pulls no punches when writing about the White resistance to change.”
As a friend pointed out to me, K.T. Horning literally wrote the book on reviewing children’s literature. So her review of The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch for the Reading While White blog would have meant a lot to me no matter what. But I especially appreciate Horning’s recognition of the honesty and authenticity […]
October 25, 2015
All the college kidlit conferences (as of October 2015)
Or, more formally, “A Comprehensive List of U.S. College- and University-Sponsored or -Hosted Children’s and Young Adult Literature Conferences, Festivals, and Symposia.” (All of them that I could find, anyway). A few years ago, I was looking for such a list, wondered why I couldn’t find one, and decided to just go ahead and make […]
October 21, 2015
Amazing Age on the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List
A few weeks ago I received some news that it’s been just killing me not to share with you. It was finally made public this past weekend at the Texas Book Festival, and I’m exhilarated to at last be able to tell you that… …The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch has been named to […]
October 18, 2015
Q&A with R. Gregory Christie, author and illustrator of Mousetropolis
I’ve been an admirer of R. Gregory Christie for years, and that appreciation only grew when he provided the art for Don Tate’s debut as an author, It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw. With that book about one artist written by yet another artist, Gregory was literally an illustrator’s illustrator. But he’s […]
October 15, 2015
Another weekend, another event with Don Tate (and, soon, another book!)
This Sunday at 3 p.m., attendees of the Texas Book Festival here in Austin can find Don and me sharing The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch in the Read Me a Story tent. It will be terrific seeing Don again, since we haven’t shared a stage since … well, last Saturday, when he and […]
October 5, 2015
Goodreads giveaway for ‘The Nutcracker’ Comes to America
Signed copies are up for grabs this week at Goodreads. Enter the giveaway now!
October 4, 2015
September 26, 2015
A new book from me, about Barbara Jordan!
From Publishers Weekly: My excitement for this project is whole; it is complete; it is total. And if you haven’t seen Ekua Holmes’ marvelous artwork in her just-published debut, you are missing out.
