Dick Bruna

Happy Birthday,  Dick Bruna: amazing and fantastic since 1927!

All the best kind of people are born in August ^_^

Katsumi Komagata

Here is one of many incredible books by Japanese children’s book designer, Katsumi Komagata. It’s called Feuilles (leaves) and is co-published by all of these amazing people: One Stroke (the author’s company), Les Trois Ourses, Les Droigts Qui Rêves and the Centre Pompidou in 2004. Every single one of Komagata’s books is better than the last, but this one is double fantastic as it tells the life of leaves and it’s clever tactility is as captivating for visually impaired children as for colour obsessed designers.

You can start here, click on the orange arrows, and take a tour through Komagata's work.

Wee Wonderfuls

Purl soho just sent out an announcement that the new book from Hillary Lang of Wee Wonderfuls. This is great news if you like to make dolls and if you are a fan of felt!

We are working on some new projects and we will be at Word on the Street to do a craft workshop. We also have a giveaway coming up soon!

Image from Wee Wonderfuls via the purl bee.

Owls See Clearly at Night | Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer

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Launch today!

Our launch is today. Hooray!

Foggy giveaway

To celebrate the launch of Foggy at Collage Collage this Saturday, we are giving away signed copies to three people. We will be announcing the winners on March 29th.

To win a copy, please tell us: What do you think Foggy's favourite thing to eat for breakfast? Email your answers to windyandfriends@gmail.com.

Special note: For those of you who haven't read the book yet, Foggy is the dog and the red- headed boy is Cloud.

Extra special note: The answer is not marshmallows, although he does love to eat marshmallows for dinner!

windyandfriends{dot}com

Ah, so...in our books you will find the url windyandfriends{dot}com. Here, for nostalgia, is an old page from our web site (Duthie Books, we miss you).

What happened to our web site? A few years ago our host closed, our files were transferred and somewhere along the way we temporarily lost the site. The good news is that we have emerged from the wilderness, and our new provider is stable and helpful.

For the time being, we are going to make this blog our home. Someday, we will put up a proper web site, but in the meantime, you may bookmark this blog. When we have a new site up, we will let you know.

We will be posting activities and colouring pages from the old site and also we are working on a list of places to find the books.

Collage Collage

A reminder that we'll be there this Saturday.

Edited to add another reminder!

Foggy outtake

In many ways editing is one of the most difficult challenge of writing a children's book. You can only use so many images, and you often have to choose only the ones which really serve the story. This image of the City enveloped in fog was one of our favourite images, but there wasn't room for it in the book.

Edited to add that Sara O'Leary has a related post about writing children's books in her blog today.

Foggy launch

We will be launching Foggy at Collage Collage on March 20th, at 3pm. It should be fun!

Foggy!

We're excited to announce that Foggy is printed, done and dusted.

Finally! Hooray!