Rickshaw Girl wins again
I am still glowing with the Lupine Honor and now comes another: the Jane Addams Honor Award for Rickshaw Girl! From the Jane Addams Peace Association press release: Three books have won honors in the Books for Older Children category. Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins, with illustrations by Jamie Hogan and published by Charlesbridge, is a contemporary novel set in Bangladesh. In clear prose and detailed black-and-white drawings, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting alpanas, traditional designs created by Bangladeshi women and girls. Her talent, though valued by her family, cannot buy rice or...
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YES!!! I am pinching myself still. Rickshaw Girl was chosen as the 2007 Lupine Honor Winner in the Juvenile/Young Adult category. The Lupine Awards have been presented annually since 1989 by the Youth Services Section of the Maine Library Association. Beloved author/artist Barbara Cooney’s Miss Rumphius was the inspiration for the Lupine Award. The awards were presented at the annual Reading Round-Up conference held at the Augusta Civic Center on April 17. Things got off to a swell start, with energetic assistance from my Lupine Committee host, Amy Hand, from the Camden Public Library....
Read MoreRickshaw in the rain
No amount of rain or dreary chill could dampen my excitement when the day finally came for my Brown Bag lecture at the Portland Public Library with Mitali Perkins. She gave an energetic and moving talk to the crowd of (mostly) young readers from three middle schools and several students from Deering High. I keep learning new things about Mitali’s source of stories, her heritage, and her strong connection to her audience. She’s one hard act to follow. The big question: how does a girl from New Hampshire illustrate a book set in Bangladesh? Well, it takes research and good drawing,...
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Ahoy! I’m an illustrator just getting into the blogosphere. Bear with me! I’m excited about my upcoming Brown Bag lecture at the Portland Public Library on April 4 at noon. Mitali Perkins, author of Rickshaw Girl (Charlesbridge Publishing) and I will talk about the book and show visuals. Should be fun. I met with Kirsten Cappy of Curious City to discuss getting visibility and she said DO A BLOG. So be it. I illustrated this amazing chapter book story back in early 2006, immersing myself in all things Bangla. I met the author a couple of months later at the annual Society of...
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