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The Art of the Board Book, Jon Klassen in conversation with Carson Ellis
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Join the incomparable Jon Klassen at the Literary Arts Bookstore for a grown-up discussion about our youngest readers celebrating the release of 3 new original board books. Klassen will be in conversation with fellow illustrator Carson Ellis.
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Your Farm / Your Forest / Your Island
This is your sun. It is coming up for you.
This is your tree. It can go under the sun.
With a minimal tableau of familiar objects and a gentle rhythm suited for reading aloud, Your Farm, Your Forest, and Your Island focus on safe spaces, comfort, and imagination in different settings. This trio of board book originals signals new ground for Jon Klassen, even as peculiar touches of whimsy stamp these books as iconically his.
Jon Klassen
Jon Klassen is the creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling I Want My Hat Back, which won a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor, and its companions This Is Not My Hat, which won a Caldecott Medal and a Kate Greenaway Medal, and We Found a Hat, named a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of the Year. He is also the author and illustrator of The Rock from the Sky and The Skull, and the illustrator of Extra Yarn, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, Triangle, Square, and Circle, all by Mac Barnett. Originally from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Jon Klassen now lives in Los Angeles.
Carson Ellis
Carson Ellis is the author-illustrator of the best-selling picture books Home and Du Iz Tak?, a Caldecott Honor Book and E. B. White Read Aloud Award winner. She has illustrated a number of books, including The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper and The Wildwood Chronicles by her husband, Colin Meloy. She is the longtime illustrator-in-residence for the band The Decemberists, for which she has received Grammy nominations for album art design. She also exhibits paintings and is represented by Nationale in Portland. Carson Ellis lives on a farm in Oregon.
