Since making their first cape in January of 2013, the folks behind Tiny Superheroes have made 500 capes for sick and disabled children. This Indiegogo campaign will help raise money to make and distribute 1,500 more capes in the next year.
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Congratulations to Sarah Johnston, whose Retro Geek mini collection has won her a design contract with Robert Kaufman Fabrics.
Continue ReadingMaurice Sendak was a national treasure. I meant (and still mean) every word of this post I wrote when he passed away last year. So I got a little choked up this morning when I saw today’s Google Doodle in honor of what would have been his 85th birthday. It’s pretty brilliant, and it’s wonderful to see how his legacy is regarded. Sometimes, Google, you amaze.
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Spoonflower, the company that will print your own fabric designs, has teamed up with Robert Kaufman Fabrics for the 2013 edition of the Fabric8 competition.
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April marked the 10th anniversary of the release of Mo Willems’ now classic picture book Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!. If you have raised, taught, or been in the presence of anyone in the 5 and under set over the past 10 years, you probably know all about The Pigeon. Now Cloud9 Fabrics, a fabulous New Jersey-based organic fabric company, has teamed up with Mo Willems to produce a line of organic cottons featuring that bird with big dreams.
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So imagine a world where Darth Vader was a doting single father, trying to raise a set of headstrong twins while climbing the world domination ladder. We all know how difficult it is to find good childcare, so Daddy Vader is pretty hands-on–except for the occasional deployment of a trigger-happy droid. And he is wrapped around his darling daughter’s little finger. This is what Jeff Brown gives us with Vader’s Little Princess, the follow-up to his super popular Darth Vader and Son.
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The Randolph Caldecott Medal, named after the 19th century illustrator, is given out each year to the best American picture book (which is interesting in and of itself since Caldecott was British). The award is selected by the American Library Association, and it is given to the book’s illustrator. The Caldecott committee also selects Honor books—the silver medalists—and the number selected varies from year to year. This year was the 75th anniversary of the Caldecott, which was announced in January at the Youth Media Awards.
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