Announcing Grandpappy’s Corner—A New Regular Feature

I’m very excited to announce a new regular feature that I’m calling Grandpappy’s Corner.

I’ve always gladly accepted requests from Children’s and Picture Book Authors to talk about their books–and I’ve even bought a few for that sole purpose (although those tend to skew towards Picture Books for the Adult Audience). But in the coming weeks (for reasons that should be self-evident), I’m going to start buying* and reading many more of them on a pretty regular basis. So, if I’m going to be paying attention to them more, I’m going to be blogging about them more.

* Okay, the purchasing has already started. What’s your point?

So why bother coming up with a new name for these posts, come up with a logo, etc.? Well, I’m going to be thinking of them a little differently, I think. I’ve always sort of tried to think about how it’d be to read them to a kid, how a kid might react, etc. But I’m going to focus on that a lot more. I want to talk about the art from the POV of the Reader (read: me) and the Read-To (read: the GrandCritter). I want to talk about what I experience as I read it aloud, what I think of the book, as well as what the Critter does, how they react, etc. (once they get to the point where I can notice a reaction). So to focus on that sort of thing, I want to change how I write about these books.

Also, it’ll make it easier for me to find them/point readers to them.

My first post along these lines should go up tomorrow–and maybe one more this week. I’m not going to flood the page with them, but they will appear frequently.

I can’t close out this post without calling attention to Idaho’s own Jeremy Billups, children’s book author/illustrator, (check out his website, and here’s every time he’s come up on the blog) who drew my Grandpappy Pilcrow figure. I love him.