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Love of Reading Gallery – Lily (age 6)

Mark — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:00:50 +0000

I’ve had the privilege of interviewing authors, illustrators and book people of all walks of life and spanning both ends of careers. Today, I break new ground for me as I interview a six year-old who’s not my own daughter.

Lily was five when she submitted an illustration to our Love of Reading Gallery, making her the youngest contributor to our collection of art. She never named her piece so I’ve called it Books and Friends. On this edition, I speak with blogger and budding author/illustrator, Lily, about her illustration, the tools she uses and the projects she’s working on.

Listen to interviews with other members of Lily’s family:

Author/illustrator, Aaron Zenz
Gracie
Isaac

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Love of Reading Gallery – Isaac (age 10)

Mark — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:00:30 +0000

We opened our Love of Reading Gallery in July 2008 and invited all illustrators to submit original artwork that promotes a love of reading. Submissions spanned the globe including Venezuela and Romania and covered all age ranges.

On this edition, Mark speaks with artist, blogger and budding author, Isaac, now 10 (he was 9 when he created his illustration) about Bedtime Snack, his contribution to our Love of Reading Gallery and a book he’s creating with his father, author/illustrator Aaron Zenz.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Love of Reading Gallery – Gracie (age 7)

Mark — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:00:59 +0000

We opened our Love of Reading Gallery in July 2008 and invited all illustrators to submit original artwork that promotes a love of reading. Submissions came from as far as Brazil, Vietnam and South Africa and covered all age ranges.

On this edition, Mark speaks with artist, blogger and budding author, Gracie, now 8 (she was 7 when she created her illustration) about Love for Reading, her contribution to our Love of Reading Gallery, her illustration technique and a book idea she has.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Did you notice Gracie’s reference to The HICCUPotamus (on JOMB)?

Love of Reading Gallery – Aaron Zenz

Mark — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:00:15 +0000

As part of the second anniversary celebrations of the Just One More Book!! children’s book podcast, we invited illustrators to submit artwork that promotes a love of reading. Now, well into our fourth year, we’re still conducting short interviews with contributors to our Love of Reading Gallery.

On this edition, Mark speaks with author/artist Aaron Zenz (on JOMB) about The Big One (his contribution to our Love of Reading Gallery), reading with his children and pencil technique.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Love of Reading Gallery – Patricia Storms

Mark — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:18:01 +0000

As we find ourselves soldiering into our fourth year of Just One More Book!!, we’re still catching up on interviews with illustrators that contributed original work to our Love of Reading Gallery as part of our second anniversary celebrations. Yes, we’re a little behind.

On this edition of Just One More Book!!, Mark speaks with illustrator Patricia Storms about her contribution – All the Hep Cats are Reading — and how cats and books go well together, some of her favourite children’s book authors and re-illustrating a book by Maurice Sendak.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Love of Reading Gallery – Candace Trew Camling

Mark — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:00:42 +0000

As we find ourselves soldiering into our fourth year of Just One More Book!!, we remain in the process of catching up on interviews with illustrators that contributed original work to our Love of Reading Gallery — part of our second anniversary celebrations. Yes, we’re a little behind.

On this edition of Just One More Book!!, Mark speaks with designer and children’s book illustrator hopeful Candace Trew Camling about her contribution titled Bookworm, still reading children’s books at age 25 and the genius of Adam Rex.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Love of Reading Gallery – Helene Boudreau

Mark — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:00:52 +0000

As part of the second anniversary celebrations of the Just One More Book!! children’s book podcast, we invited illustrators to submit artwork that promotes a love of reading. Now, as we head towards our third anniversary, we’re in the process of catching up on our series of short interviews with each of 51 contributors to our Love of Reading Gallery.

On this edition, Mark speaks with author/artist Hélène Boudreau about her contribution called Story Time, the complex art of story telling through illustration and the difference and similarities between her own childhood experiences with books and the experiences of her own daughters’.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Love of Reading Gallery – Daniele Rossi

Mark — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:00:53 +0000

You meet a lot of talented people in the podcast community. Daniele Rossi, illustrator and producer of the Stuttering is Cool podcast, is a perfect example. We became good friends after meeting at the Podcasters Across Borders conference in 2007 and that led him to respond to our open invitation for illustrators and artists to contribute to our Love of Reading Gallery.

Incidentally, Daniele is part of the speaking program at this year’s PAB09 event, taking place in Kingston, Canada from June 19-21.

During a recent trip to Toronto, Mark spoke with Daniele about his contribution to our Love of Reading Gallery, Now This One, digital sketchbooks and the beauty of seeing eraser marks on real paper.

Love of Reading Gallery – Roberta Baird

Mark — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:00:35 +0000

As part of the second anniversary celebrations of the Just One More Book!! children’s book podcast, we invited illustrators to submit artwork that promotes a love of reading. Now, as we head towards our third anniversary, we’re in the process of catching up on our series of short interviews with each of 51 contributors to our Love of Reading Gallery.

On this edition, Mark speaks with illustrator Roberta Baird about her contribution called Book Talk, the convergence of traditional and digital illustration, and her hope to one day write and illustrate her own children’s book.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Our Love of Reading Gallery Grows

Just One More Book!! — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:06:28 +0000

As we prepared to celebrate the second anniversary of the Just One More Book!! children’s book podcast, we invited illustrators to submit original artwork for our Love of Reading Gallery.

This week, almost one year to the day after our June 15, 2008 cutoff date, we were thrilled to receive this fabulous new submission from illustrator & author Peggy Collins (on JOMB). Thank you, Peggy!!

Over the summer, we’ll be catching up on our series of short interviews with each of the more than 50 contributors to our Love of Reading Gallery.

Details on how to submit appear at the top of our Love of Reading Gallery page.

Love of Reading Gallery – Katie Davis

Mark — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:00:44 +0000

As part of the second anniversary celebrations of the Just One More Book!! children’s book podcast, we invited illustrators to submit artwork that promotes a love of reading. We are now catching on our series of short interviews with each of 51 contributors to our Love of Reading Gallery.

On this edition, Mark speaks with illustrator Katie Davis about her contribution called Get Into Books and not being able to time travel.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Love of Reading Gallery – Andy J. Smith

Mark — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:00:39 +0000

As part of the second anniversary celebrations of the Just One More Book!! children’s book podcast, we’ve been conducting short interviews with each of 51 contributors to our Love of Reading Gallery. These interviews are being published as extra shows in our interview feed until we’ve interviewed everyone who contributed to the gallery prior to June 15.

On this edition, Mark speaks with illustrator Andy J. Smith about his contribution called Bookxplosion and the process finding a unique style.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Love of Reading Gallery – Cyd Moore

Mark — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:00:35 +0000

There’s one thing you can count on when it comes children’s book creators; they’re wildly passionate about what they do and what they believe in which is typically literacy and a love of reading.

Count illustrator Cyd Moore among that crowd. I called Cyd to interview her about Book Buddies, her contribution to our Love of Reading Gallery and when I brought up literacy and love of reading in general, she took off, joking that she’d jumped on her soapbox. And you know what? It was great. I could have talked to her for hours.

On this edition of Just One More Book!!, illustrator Cyd Moore shares her personal experiences with children’s books and her passion for getting children hooked on reading.

Among Cyd’s illustration credits are:

Willlow
I Love You Stinky Face (and other books in the Stinky face series)
Room for Rabbit

Books mentioned:

Missing Rabbit

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Love of Reading Gallery – Kevin Levell

Mark — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:00:18 +0000

When we put out the call for illustrations that promote a love of reading, we didn’t expect to receive 51 submissions in about a month.

As part of the second anniversary celebrations of the Just One More Book!! children’s book podcast, we’re conducting short interviews with each illustrator that contributed to our Love of Reading Gallery. These interviews will be published as extra shows in our interview feed.

On this edition, Mark speaks with illustrator Kevin Levell about his contribution called Old Favourite.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

By the way, if you know Mark you know that he’s very particular about good audio quality. More importantly, he’s extremely particular about great conversation. Unfortunately, his audio card acted up during this interview and the resulting audio is disappointing. The conversation is too good to attempt an encore performance. We assure you that if you can be patient with the audio quality, you’ll be rewarded by the discussion.

Mark reached Kevin at his home in the UK, during tea time.

Love of Reading Gallery – Tom Bojarczuk

Mark — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:00:25 +0000

There’s no turning back, now. We’re eleven interviews into fifty-one with illustrators and children — artists all — who’ve contributed amazing illustrations that promote a love of reading for the Just One More Book!! podcast’s Love of Reading Gallery.

On this edition, Mark speaks illustrator, designer and artist Tom Bojarczuk (check out Tom’s Flickr photo page) about his contribution called Reading Under a Tree.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Mark reached Tom at his home in Brazil.

Love of Reading Gallery – Diane deGroat

Mark — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:00:55 +0000

It’s a fun job and somebody has to do it.

We’re talking about interviewing 51 artists, professionals, hobbyists and children — artists all — about their drawings for our Love of Reading Gallery. It’s all part of the celebration of the second anniversary of the Just One More Book!! children’s book podcast.

On this edition, Mark speaks with author and illustrator Diane deGroat about her contribution, Read Me a Story, Gilbert.

By the way, if you know Mark you know that he’s very particular about good audio quality. More importantly, he’s extremely particular about great conversation. Unfortunately, his audio card acted up during this interview (one of three) and the resulting audio is disappointing. The conversation is too good to attempt an encore performance. We assure you that if you can be patient with the audio quality, you’ll be rewarded by the discussion.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Love of Reading Gallery – Denise Simon

Mark — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:00:20 +0000

As part of the second anniversary celebrations of the Just One More Book!! children’s book podcast, we’re conducting short interviews with each of 51 contributors to our Love of Reading Gallery. These interviews are being published as extra shows in our interview feed until we’ve interviewed everyone who contributed before June 15.

On this edition, Mark speaks with illustrator Denise Simon about her contribution called Little Red Reading Hood and her hope to illustrate children’s books.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Books and stories mentioned:

Little Red Riding Hood

Love of Reading Gallery – Lucy Autrey Wilson

Mark — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:00:24 +0000

There’s no turning back, now. We’re eight interviews into fifty-one with illustrators and children — artists all — who’ve contributed amazing illustrations that promote a love of reading for the Just One More Book!! podcast’s Love of Reading Gallery.

On this edition, Mark speaks with after-hours illustrator Lucy Autrey Wilson about her contribution called A Book Can Take You Anywhere.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Books mentioned:

The Wind in the Willows
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Anderson Tales
Goodnight Moon
The Velveteen Rabbit

Love of Reading Gallery – Oliver Jeffers

Mark — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:49 +0000

When we put out the call for illustrations that promote a love of reading, we didn’t expect to receive 51 submissions in about a month.

Author, illustrator and artist Oliver Jeffers makes an encore appearance on this edition of Just One More Book!! This time Oliver talks about his Love of Reading Gallery submission titled The Incredible Book Reading Joy.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Relevant links:

Interview with Oliver Jeffers on Just One More Book!!
Review of The Incredible Book Eating Boy on Just One More Book!!
National Literacy Trust

Love of Reading Gallery – Ruth Sanderson

Mark — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:00:22 +0000

As part of the second anniversary celebrations of the Just One More Book!! children’s book podcast, we’re conducting short interviews with each of 51 contributors to our Love of Reading Gallery. These interviews will be published three times a week as extra shows in our interview feed until we’ve interview everyone who contributed before June 15.

On this edition, Mark speaks with illustrator, artist and fantasy art enthusiast (as you’ll learn in this interview) Ruth Sanderson about her contribution called Curl Up With a Good Book.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Books mentioned:

The Golden Key by George MacDonald

Love of Reading – Rebecca Gavney Driscoll

Mark — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:00:55 +0000

When we put out the call for illustrations that promote a love of reading, we didn’t expect to receive 51 submissions in about a month.

On this edition, Mark speaks with Rebecca Gavney Driscoll about her contribution called Reading With My Friend.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Love of Reading Gallery – Siri Weber Feeney

Mark — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:00:15 +0000

As part of the second anniversary celebrations of the Just One More Book!! children’s book podcast, we’re conducting short interviews with each of 51 contributors to our Love of Reading Gallery. These interviews will be published three times a week as extra shows in our interview feed until we’ve interview everyone who contributed before June 15.

On this edition, Mark speaks with author, illustrator and designer Siri Weber Feeney about her contribution called Book Catcher.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Love of Reading Gallery – Deborah Zemke

Mark — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:15 +0000

It’s a fun job and somebody has to do it.

We’re talking about interviewing 51 artists — professionals, hobbyists and children — about their drawings for our Love of Reading Gallery. It’s all part of the celebration of the second anniversary of the Just One More Book children’s book podcast.

On this edition, Mark speaks with Deborah Zemke about her contribution, You are What you Read.

Besides book illustration, Deborah Zemke is an illustrator for Ranger Rick Magazine.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Love of Reading Gallery – Lee Edward Fodi

Mark — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:43 +0000

When we put out the call for illustrations that promote a love of reading, we didn’t expect to receive 51 submissions in about a month.

As part of the second anniversary celebrations of the Just One More Book children’s book podcast, we’re conducting short interviews with each illustrator that contributed to our Love of Reading Gallery. These interviews will be published three times each week as extra shows in our interview feed.

On this edition, Mark speaks with Lee Edward Fodi about his contribution called He Was a Tiger of a Storyteller.

Lee Edward Fodi on Just One More Book

Interview with Lee Edward Fodi
Waiting at the Door to Unger 9-part documentary series
Vancouver writers book discussion (featuring Lee Edward Fodi)

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Love of Reading Gallery – Bob Staake

Mark — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:26:16 +0000

As part of the second anniversary celebrations of the Just One More Book children’s book podcast, we’ve been conducting short interviews with each of this spring’s Love of Reading Gallery contributors. These interviews will be published three times as extra shows in our interview feed.

On this edition, Mark speaks with Bob Staake about his contribution called Taking a Book for a Stroll.

Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

CLICK HERE to hear a full length interview with Bob Staake.

Our Love of Reading Gallery – a work in progress

Mark — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:04:01 +0000

Interest in our Love of Reading Gallery exceeded our expectations. Submissions continue to arrive in our inbox despite the June 15 cutoff date and the number of people stopping by to admire the amazing artwork grows everyday.

Thank you to everyone who submitted artwork for our gallery. Your work is incredible and we love being able to admire it — anytime and all the time — and share it with other children’s book enthusiasts.

Interviews with the artists whose artwork arrived on or before June 15 will be published beginning next month.

In the meantime, we have decided to continue accepting artwork for our gallery. Details on how to submit appear at the top of our Love of Reading Gallery page.

Our growing Love of Reading Gallery

Mark — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:47:18 +0000

There are only three days left in our call for illustrations for our Love of Reading Gallery. Fabulous submissions continue to arrive daily as we head towards the June 15th wrap-up.

We are now conducting interviews with participating illustrators (children included) about their submissions, style and the of impact children’s books have had on their own lives. We’ll begin publishing those interviews as part of our 400th episode/2nd anniversary celebrations in July.

Details on how to participate in our Love of Reading gallery are available on the gallery page.

Big week for our Love of Reading Gallery

Mark — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:13:46 +0000

It’s been a big week for our Love of Reading Gallery. More illustrations arrived in the last five days than any two previous weeks combined — and they arrived from all over the world.

Be sure to check out the amazing artwork in our growing gallery.

We are now scheduling interviews with the participating illustrators (children included) about their submissions, style and the of impact children’s books have had on their lives. We’ll begin publishing those interviews as part of our 400th episode/2nd anniversary celebrations.

Details on how to participate in our Love of Reading gallery are available on the gallery page.

Our Love of Reading Gallery continues to grow

Mark — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:19:54 +0000

Illustrations for our Love of Reading Gallery continue to arrive on a regular basis. It’s exciting to receive the amazing artwork and we’re extremely happy that so many illustrators and children are participating. Be sure to check out the amazing artwork in our growing gallery.

We are preparing to invite all of the participating illustrators (children included) for interviews to discuss their submissions, style and the of impact children’s books have had on their lives.

Details on how to participate are available on the gallery page.

Can you guess who made this Love of Reading illustration?

Mark — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:10:41 +0000

We continue to receive fantastic illustrations for our Love of Reading Gallery, and have even spied a sneak preview of a work in progress by one illustrator. Yesterday, we were surprised when we received the illustration that appears at the right of this post. Can you guess who created it?

Don’t forget to stop in to our Love of Reading Gallery to see the great artwork that’s on display for everyone to enjoy.

Announcing our Love of Reading Gallery

Mark — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:27:35 +0000

We have been receiving submissions for our Love of Reading illustration event — a part of our 2nd anniversary/400th episode celebrations that will take place in July.

We are currently preparing to interview our contributors. In the meantime, we are pleased to announce the launch our…

Love of Reading Gallery

…so that everyone can enjoy the great illustrations.

Illustrators of all backgrounds are invited to submit a logo-like illustration that can be resized nicely and featured on our website for everyone to enjoy. Illustrators submitting artwork will be invited to be guests of Just One More Book!! to talk about their design, the creative process and how their submission helps to promote a love of reading.We ask that all submissions be emailed to justonemorebook@gmail.com in JPG, PNG or GIF format, 500×500 pixels on or before June 15, 2008. Let us know if you have any questions.

Celebrate two years and 400 episodes of promoting children’s books

Mark — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:42:08 +0000

This July, the Just One More Book!! children’s book podcast will celebrate its second anniversary and 400th episode of promoting children’s books and literacy. As part of our celebration, we are redesigning our website and would like the new look to include artwork that promotes a love of reading.

We ask that all submissions be emailed to justonemorebook@gmail.com in JPG, PNG or GIF format, 500×500 pixels on or before June 15, 2008. Let us know if you have any questions.

We always welcome feedback and book recommendations/reviews. Please leave us a message on our voice feedback line, +1.206.350.6487 and we’ll include it in the show.

Also, you can now subscribe to our podcast using any combination of the following options: