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Book Anniversary! - You're My Boo
Happy One Year Anniversary to 'You're My Boo' - Beach Lane Books (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) September 2016. It was such a thrill to illustrate this book and I just love the trailer Kate and I had made for it... so I thought I's share it again. Enjoy!
Sunny and Stormy Day - Target Pick!
Sunny and Stormy Day - Target Pick!
Sunny and Stormy Day! Book & Game for Peaceable Kingdom (exclusively sold at Target)
I was thrilled to work with one of my all time favorites, Peaceable Kingdom, on this storybook game project called Sunny and Stormy Day. And much to my surprise it was selected to be a and exclusive at Target! Woo Hoo!!
My Big Box of Books Arrived!!
A big box filled with the children's book I illustrated, called 'You're My Boo', recently arrived from Simon & Schuster! Such an exciting day... it's so fun to see your 'real' book. To feel the hardcover and binding and jacket and feel the turning of the pages. Love it! So, so exciting and a dream come true.
My daughter was just as thrilled to see them too. :-)
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You're My Boo - Awesome Kirkus Review!
KIRKUS REVIEW
A day in the life of a family is more than the sum of its adorable parts.
“You’re my peek-a-boo, my sneak-a-boo, / my laughing till-you-squeak-a-boo.” So begins this mother fox’s celebration of her quick, sneaky, funny, naughty little fox cub. All day long, the toddler plays, alternating between engaging its baby sibling and teasing it. And all day long, the mother cajoles, comforts, or corrects the child’s behavior, using the “boo” diminutive throughout, until at day’s end the child is comforted and tucked in to sleep. Adult readers with a low saccharine tolerance may shudder at the sweetness of the endeavor, but with its meticulous scansion and playful affection, it subtly morphs into a story that is both a silly name litany (always popular with young readers) and a quietly reassuring statement of continual mischief-proof parental love (“And no matter what you do… / you will always be my boo”). The book also draws a fairly neat line between the “boo” of “peek-a-boo” and the contemporary, affectionate slang term for “sweetheart.” Withrow’s accompanying pencil, collage, and digital art aptly illuminates the cub’s day, excelling in vignettes that illustrate the protagonist’s shenanigans even as the text delivers simple, one-word descriptions. In the end, it’s the love between parent and child that carries the story.
Boo-tiful. (Picture book. 3-5)
And here's the link to the actual Kirkus review, /www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kate-dopirak/youre-my-boo/
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