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Lifting Spirits

Posted on July 23, 2020 by rosinskynatalie

Pandemic dangers and safety limits . . . uncertainties about the shape of the upcoming school year—it remains hard to be upbeat when these woes press us down. Low spirits, of course, affect kids as well as adults. Two recent … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, picture books | Tagged A Map into the World, Asian-American, brother-sister relationships, brothers and sisters, C.S. Lewis, Caldecott award-winning, Covid-19 anxiety, Covid-19 depression, Dan Santat, death of child, Drawn Together, elementary age-readers, fantasy, Hmong, humor, Kao Kalia Yang, Khoa Le, Lift, Minh Le, Minnesota, Narnia, pandemic anxiety, pandemic dangers, pandemic depression, picture book, school reopening, Seo Kim, sibling relationships, siblings, Thai-American, The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, The Most Beautiful Thing in the World, The Shared Room, upcoming school year, Xee Reiter | Leave a comment

Outdoor Art with Heart

Posted on May 28, 2020 by rosinskynatalie

Heartfelt messages to neighbors and neighborhood heroes have brightened many of today’s pandemic city views. Drawing with chalk, kids have decorated sidewalks, driveways, and even walls with scenes and words to celebrate people and events such as birthdays and graduations. … Continue reading →

Posted in biographies, Books, picture books | Tagged A Map into the World, AIDS, Bill Thomson, celebrations, Chalk, chalk art, Covid-19, grandmother, Hmong, Hmong American, Kao Kalia Yang, Kay A. Haring, Keith Haring, Keith Haring The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing, Khoa Le, Minnesota Book Award, neighborhood, neighborhood heroes, neighbors, outdoor art, outdoor artist, Pandemic, pop art, refugees, Robert Neubecker, Seo Kim, sibling death, sidewalk art, sidewalk chalk drawing, story cloth, street art, The Art of Chalk Techniques and Inspiration for Creating Art with Chalk, The Most Beautiful Thing, The Shared Room, Tracy Lee Sturm, Xee Reiter | 2 Comments

Fireworks or Fizzle?

Posted on July 1, 2019 by rosinskynatalie

Anticipating or recalling those 4th of July fireworks? Colorful blasts have been part of “Independence Day” celebrations ever since the U.S. Declaration of Independence supposedly was signed on July 4, 1776. Yet our new country’s continued growth is the exception … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels | Tagged Andy Warner, Arizona Mystery Castle, Auroville, Dean Kamen, Failed Utopias, Fourth of July, gay and lesbian, immigrant, immigrant detention, Intentional Communities, KIng Camp Gillette, Libertatia, Micronations, Nek Chand's Rock Garden, North Dumpling Island, Oneida, pirates, slavery, slaves, Sofie Louise Dam, strange dreams, This Land Is MY Land: A Graphic History of Big Dreams Micronations and Other Self-Made States, This Land Is Your Land song, Visonary Environments, Woody Guthrie | Leave a comment

Great Graphic Gifts

Posted on December 1, 2018 by rosinskynatalie

Giving “experiences” rather than “things” is a trend this winter holiday season, making graphic literature a fashionable, two-for-one joy for the tween-and-up readers on your gift list. They can hold a volume in their hands, actively scanning between text and … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, hybrid books | Tagged Auschwitz, Brian Selznick, concentration camps, demonizing enemies, displaced persons camps, elves, Eugene Yelchin, goblins, holiday gifts, Holocaust, humor, hybrid graphic novel, hybrid novel, Judaism, M.T. Anderson, music, opera, spying, survivors, The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, Vesper Stamper, war, What the Night Sings | Leave a comment

Picturing Butterflies

Posted on May 1, 2018 by rosinskynatalie

A brand new, sumptuous picture book biography is my focus today. Its illustrations refreshed my winter-weary eyes, even as its crystal-clear language movingly revealed an exceptional woman, from girlhood through old age. And, whether by remarkable coincidence or fate, my … Continue reading →

Posted in biographies, picture books | Tagged 17th-century women, art history, butterfly metamorphosis, Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis, Don Larsson, entomology, Jeyaraney Kathirithamby, John Jacques Audubon, Joyce Sidman, Julie Paschkis, Kim Todd, Margarita Engle, Maria Merian, Maria Sibylla Merian: Artist/Scientist/Adventurer, naturalist, Peter Kuper, Ruins, Sarah B. Pomeroy, science, Scott Pakudaitis, Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian, Surinam, Susanna Centlivre, The Bassett Table, The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science, women artists, women scientists | Leave a comment

On Earth Day: Poetry Embracing Science

Posted on April 21, 2018 by rosinskynatalie

I was shocked—an editor had just told me that poetry had no place in science books! This young man had been assigned by the publisher to shepherd my completed work-for-hire, about watersheds for middle school readers, into print. The poetry … Continue reading →

Posted in articles | Tagged A Place in Space:: Ethics Aesthetics and Watersheds, Anna Dumont, Beckie Prange, Beth Krommes, Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow, Cathie, Cathie Felstead, Chris Brubeck, Christopher Wormell, Convergence, Damia Lewis, Dirt: The Scoop on Soil, e.e. cummings, Earth Day, Earthshake: Poems from the Ground Up, Frederica von Stade, Gary Snyder, J. Patrick Lewis, Joyce Sidman, Light: Shadows Mirrors and Rainbows, Lisa Westberg Peters, Matthew John, Patty Schlutt, picture books, poetry, River of Song, River of Words: Young Poets and Artists on the Nature of Things, Rocks: Hard Soft Smooth and Rough, science, Sheree Boyd, Song of the River Boatman and Other Pond Poems, Swan Song: Poems of Extinction, watersheds | Leave a comment

Korean Tales

Posted on November 1, 2017 by rosinskynatalie

North Korea remains forefront in U.S. news, as both countries’ boastful, ambitious leaders toy childishly with nuclear threats. We here in the U.S. can only hope and work within our political system to avert such disaster. Novels such as Adam … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, manga | Tagged Adam Johnson, adolescence, Booklist"s Top Ten Graphic Novels for Youth, fantasy, frequently challenged book, goblins, Hangul, Julie Kim, Kim Dong Hwa, Korea, Korean American, Korean folk tales, Korean folklore, manhwa, Moon Rabbit, mother-daughter relationship, nine-tailed fox, North Korean, Sejong Cultural Society, sex, sexuality, South Korea, The Color of Earth, The Color of Heaven, The Color of Water, The Orphan Master's Son, Where's Halmoni, writing competition, YALSA Top Ten Graphic Novels for Teens | Leave a comment

Going Nuclear

Posted on March 1, 2017 by rosinskynatalie

Going nuclear? A recent, award-winning picture book; another acclaimed, older picture book; and some classic and in-progress graphic novels remind us just how terrible this military choice has been. These works center upon the World War II atomic devastation of … Continue reading →

Posted in biographies, graphic novels, manga, memoir, picture books, Uncategorized | Tagged A Cartoon History of Hiroshima, atom bomb, atomic power plant, Barefoot Gen, Caren Stelson, comics, Depression, Fukushima nuclear power plant, Hiroshima, Ichi-F: A Worker's Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Japan, Japanese Prime Minister Abe, Junko Morimoto, Kazuto Tatsuta, Keiji Nakasawa, My Hiroshima, non-violence, nuclear arsenal, nuclear disarmament, nuclear melt down, nuclear power plant, nuclear war, peace, Peace Garden, President Trump, Raina Telgemeier, Sachiko Yasui, Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story, Silbert Honor Award, United States, World War II | Leave a comment

Twenty-first Century Genius

Posted on November 1, 2016 by rosinskynatalie

Two graphic novelists were among the twenty-three creative people recently awarded an annual MacArthur “Genius” grant, with its hefty prize money. The MacArthur Foundation “celebrates and inspires the creative potential of individuals through no-strings-attached fellowships.” I was delighted to see that … Continue reading →

Posted in biographies, graphic novels, weather | Tagged atom bomb, biography, Brian Selznick, Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Ellis, Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, climate change, collage, copper plate etching, cyanotype, dance, Doris Eaton Travis, Elicia Castaldi, Erik Drooker, Gene Luen Yang, history of science, Hollywood, Jennifer L. Holm, Last Living Star of the Ziegfe, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies, Lauren Redniss, Marie Curie, McArthur "Genius" award, memoir, Nobel Prize, nuclear medicine, nuclear power accidents, Ozge Samanci, Peter Kuper, Pierre Curie, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie A Tale of Love and Fallout, radioactivity, radium, science, Shaun Tan, TED Talk, Thunder & LIghtning: Weather Past Present and Future, weather, World War I, World War II, Ziegfeld Follies | Leave a comment

Color Me Puzzled . . . But Pleased

Posted on June 18, 2015 by rosinskynatalie

I had more questions than answers at last Sunday’s Minnesota Crossword Puzzle Tournament, held in St. Paul’s grand Landmark Center. Yet I had enormous fun participating in this annual event, organized four times now by the Friends of the St. Paul … Continue reading →

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