Happy Children's Book Week!
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Happy Children’s Book Week!
Our illustrator Peter Willis was featured a couple times for Children’s Book Week. He was asked to provide drawing activities for kids. These are based on our books CLANG! and THE NANTUCKET SEA MONSTER.
Clang! is the story of German scientist Ernst Chladni (CLOD-Knee), who was the “Bill Nye, the Science Guy” type entertainer of his time. He entertained nobility with his science experiments, especially experiments about sound. When he went to the French court and entertained Napoleon, he received funding for his landmark book about acoustics.
The Nantucket Sea Monster is a true fake-news story. Tony Sarg, who invented the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons, created a sea monster balloon and floated it off the shore of Nantucket island. The news went out across the U.S. that a sea monster had been sighted. Some call it “just” a publicity stunt. But the trust is that the newspaper men KNEW it wasn’t true, yet they published it anyway. Need a non-political way to talk about fake news? This is it!
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Peter Willis, Illustrator
Learn more about illustrator Peter Willis in this series of blog posts. Use the red arrows at the bottom to advance to the next article about him.
I went to England in August and was thrilled to meet Peter! We have worked together on 11 books now, and this is the first time we met in person.
Learn more about the Moments in Science series, illustrated by Peter Willis!
And here’s a sneak peek at a cover-in-progress.
Last year, I went to Czech Republic (which resulted in NOT EXTINCT: The Przewalski’s Horse Returns from Extinct in the Wild), and also Poland, where we went to every site about Copernicus: his birthplace, his college in Krakow, and the cathedral where he worked for forty years, Frombork Castle. Coming out next year will be NIGHT, the story of Copernicus’s work.
I love Peter Willis’s art! Don’t you?
These look so cute!