tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90836507775016974152024-03-08T08:19:27.364-05:00--Lauren Castillo Blog--Lauren Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653655339293961775noreply@blogger.comBlogger229125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083650777501697415.post-54113284148439360422015-03-25T12:41:00.000-04:002015-03-25T12:41:36.634-04:00"Everyone Can Fly" Exhibition at the SAM<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am thrilled to be a part of the lovely group exhibition <b><i>Everyone Can Fly</i></b> at the <a href="http://sqart.org/galleries/everyone-can-fly/" target="_blank">Susquehanna Art Museum</a> in Harrisburg, PA. The show opened on March 20th, and will be up through the end of May. If you find yourself in the Harrisburg area I hope you'll drop by the beautiful museum and enjoy a visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Everyone Can Fly</i> is an exhibition of original illustrations
from a group of award-winning children’s books with a focus on literacy
and its relevance for the youth of our region. The centerpiece of this
collection will be all of the original artwork from <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Tar Beach</span>
by internationally renowned author/painter/quilter/lecturer Faith
Ringgold. This magical story was the recipient of the 1991 Coretta Scott
King Award for Illustration and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book
choice. Another feature of this unique exhibition will be the addition
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.amybates.com/" target="_blank">Amy Bates</a>, <a href="http://jonathanbean.com/" target="_blank">Jonathan Bean</a>, Lauren Castillo, <a href="http://meganlloyd.com/" target="_blank">Megan Lloyd-Thompson</a>, <a href="http://www.faithringgold.com/" target="_blank">Faith Ringgold</a>, <a href="http://www.jumpin.shadrastrickland.com/info/" target="_blank">Shadra Strickland</a></span></span></span><a href="http://www.jumpin.shadrastrickland.com/info/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b> </b></span></a></h4>
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Lauren Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653655339293961775noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083650777501697415.post-7269220306693775972015-03-24T14:38:00.000-04:002015-03-24T14:38:47.393-04:00Something something something. Caldecott Honor (!!!)So many months (and so many adventures) have passed since my last post that I think I'm just going to have to skip over a ton of things and go straight to this:<br />
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It is still hard to believe <a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal" target="_blank">this actually happened</a>. I've been pinching myself a lot.<br />
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On the morning of February 2nd I received a phone call from a room of cheering Caldecott committee members, telling me that my book NANA IN THE CITY had won a Caldecott Honor. Wow. Whoa. Oh my gosh.<br />
Stunned.<br />
Overwhelmed.<br />
Elated.<br />
Just a few of the many emotions I've felt these last several weeks.<br />
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To know that the committee saw something special in my little book just blows me away. I cannot wait to thank them in person and accept the award at the<a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc/annual" target="_blank"> annual ALA conference </a>in San Fransisco this June. <br />
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For now, here's a little Times Square marquee thank you. ♡♡♡<br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/121214032">Thank you, Caldecott committee!</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/laurencastillo">Lauren Castillo</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Lauren Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653655339293961775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083650777501697415.post-41617084558334398852014-05-23T13:24:00.001-04:002014-05-23T13:24:06.911-04:00Book Expo America!Next week is <a href="http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/Home/?campaignid=61813297&iusercampaignid=82145390" target="_blank">Book Expo America </a>at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, and I'm super excited to be making the trip up for it. I get to visit with all my New York buddies, plus share my <a href="http://hmhbooks.com/laurencastillo/books.html" target="_blank">two new books <i>The Troublemaker</i> and <i>Nana in the City</i></a> at the conference. It's going to be a fun few days!<br />
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<i><u><b>·Wednesday, May 28th</b>: BEA kicks off with the <b>20th Annual Children's Book Art Silent Auction</b></u> </i><br />
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the <a href="http://www.abffe.org/?page=Auction" target="_blank">ABFFE</a><a href="http://www.abffe.org/?page=Auction" target="_blank"> </a>(click on the link for all the deets). This little guy below (from <i>Nana in the City</i>) is looking to go home with a new friend.<br />
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I'm going to skip the conference to hang out with my friend and former editor, Frances Foster, along with my good friend (and editor extraordinaire) Noa Wheeler. One of the things I miss most about living in NYC is being able to easily take the subway to the UWS to visit Frances and her husband Tony. I haven't seen them since I moved away from the city in January. It's going to be really nice to spend the afternoon with the Fosters :) </div>
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<b>12-12:30 pm</b> -- I will be in the <b>Autographing Area</b>, signing and giving away a buncha <i>Troublemaker'</i>s. Info is <a href="http://bea14.mapyourshow.com/5_0/sessions/sessiondetails.cfm?ScheduledSessionID=1DA9C8" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Please come snag a copy and say hello!</div>
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<b>3:30 pm</b> -- I'll be at the <b>ABC/CBC Author and Illustrators Tea</b>, chatting about <i>The Troublemaker</i> and <i>Nana in the City</i> with a group of awesome booksellers. I wish there was a way to clone myself so that I could also sit at the tables of the other authors— what a lineup (It's crazy to think I'm even going to be in the same room with all these guys)! Info is <a href="http://www.bookweb.org/bea2014/abc-cbc-tea-childrens-authors-illustrators" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Right after the Tea I'll be hopping on a bus back to Baltimore. A short but full trip! I hope that if you are also heading to BEA next week, I will get to run in to you some point . . .</div>
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Wishing you all a lovely Memorial Day weekend. Hooray, summer is almost here!!! </div>
Lauren Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653655339293961775noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083650777501697415.post-21957912133439554862014-05-03T15:04:00.000-04:002014-05-03T15:42:14.063-04:00Playing catch upHi, friends!<br />
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Man oh man, how I've neglected this blog!<br />
Somehow it is already MAY.<br />
MAY 2014.<br />
How did that happen?<br />
Seriously, the year is flying.<br />
FLYING!<br />
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A super quick update:<br />
Since my last post in January I have . . . <br />
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-Moved out of Brooklyn, New York, and down to charming Baltimore, Maryland. A BIG change, but a very good one.<br />
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-Started and (almost) finished the art for a picture book titled <b>YARD SALE</b>, written by Eve Bunting (!Pinch me!), that will come out in spring 2015.<br />
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-Purchased a new sketchbook where a tiny hedgehog showed up one happy day in February. Now, two and a half months later, it is hard to draw anything BUT Hedgehog. I'm obsessed.<br />
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-Finally jumped in to the wonderful world of Twitter, where I have had the opportunity to meet and chat with so many lovely and awesome new people. Hooray for social media (mostly:)!<br />
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-Received actual bound copies of my new book as author/illustrator, <b>THE TROUBLEMAKER</b>. I am so pleased with how it's turned out. A million thanks to my editor, art director and all of Clarion/HMH for encouraging and supporting me and this book. I'll be doing my first read aloud to a group of 60(!) Pre-K kiddos next week. Please, keep your fingers crossed for me! :)<br />
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THE TROUBLEMAKER's book birthday is one month from today. June 3rd, 2014. I cannot wait! You can read more about the book <b><a href="http://www.hmhco.com/shop/books/The-Troublemaker/9780547729916" target="_blank">here</a></b>.<br />
I'll leave you with my first ever attempt at animation, below.<br />
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Happy weekend, all! Hope it's a fantastic one. <br />
xo~Lauren<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="500" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/92196599" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/92196599">The Troublemaker</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/laurencastillo">Lauren Castillo</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Lauren Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653655339293961775noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083650777501697415.post-62689902813838123192014-01-21T15:37:00.000-05:002014-01-21T15:37:17.987-05:00A litttle Q & A<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A big thank you to Joanna Marple of <i>Miss Marple's Musings</i> for interviewing me on her wonderful blog last week. <a href="http://joannamarple.com/2014/01/illustrator-interview-lauren-castillo/" target="_blank">Here's a link to our full conversation</a>, where I talk a bit about the makings of <i>City Cat,</i> and share some sneak peeks of the art from my upcoming book, <i>Nana in the City</i>.<br />
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Thanks again for having me, Joanna! <br />
Lauren Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653655339293961775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083650777501697415.post-64796403355412564972014-01-08T11:23:00.000-05:002014-01-08T11:23:39.736-05:00The Horn Book likes City Cat!<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">"A
small smoky-gray cat follows a family on its trip through Europe. She
hitches rides, stows away on boats, cadges food, and invites herself
behind the
scenes. As is the way of cats, she makes herself supremely comfortable
wherever she is, whether bathing in a Parisian fountain or picking her
way across the roof of Gaudí’s Casa Batlló in Barcelona. Castillo’s
drawings capture both the grandeur of great cities
and their human dynamism as people cycle, shop, work, rush, parade,
dress up, and even play the tuba. In each picture, we look for the
family, and the family looks for the cat. Banks’s text is confident and
rhythmic, dotted with rhymes and half-rhymes that
bounce off the tongue. “She sits on piers with perked-up ears / and
gazes out to sea.” The words pass the read-it-again test with flying
colors. A well-traveled child, armchair or otherwise, will spot Big Ben
and the Eiffel Tower. For all the rest, an appended
spread, both child- and cat-oriented, identifies the cities and the
sights, and a map lets us trace the family’s eight-city journey." <i>—sarah ellis </i>(Jan/Feb issue)</span>Lauren Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653655339293961775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083650777501697415.post-75972472010984672572014-01-06T14:54:00.001-05:002014-01-06T14:54:49.916-05:00Happy 2014, friends!Wishing you a BRIGHT and COLORFUL new year! xo~L<br />
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<span class="userContent">It was a total surprise to discover that <b>CITY CAT</b> had been <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/books/city-cat-and-emma-in-paris.html?_r=0" target="_blank">reviewed in the New York Times</a> a couple weeks ago... and fantastic review to boot! Here is a snippet:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“City cat, strutting down the boulevards,<br />taking in the city sights.<br />The skyline, pulsing, bathed in light.<br />An obelisk, a graceful arch,<br />a gilded bridge, a sprawling park.” </i> </span></span></div>
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Castillo, who has worked with Banks before, on <i>“That’s Papa’s Way”</i>
(2009), creates illustrations that are a good match for the author’s
evocative language. Her street scenes, with all their architectural
detail, have the intentionally rough, textural look of lino prints, and
her palette is an attractive and fashionable combination of rich
neutrals and bright reds and mustard yellows. In all, <i>“City Cat”</i> may
appeal as much to parents as to children, but there’s no harm in that.
One advantage human travelers have over beasts: If you have to pack a
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"A black cat serves as European tour guide for child readers in this offering from Banks and Castillo.
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">The cat and a family of travelers begin in Rome. Outstanding
backmatter later tells readers that the famed Coliseum is home to over
200 stray cats that are protected by Roman law. But before reaching the
informational paratext, readers follow the cat from
one European locale to another, right alongside the family on holiday.
The family seems almost superfluous, even intrusive to the cat’s
adventure. First, the cat stows away in the back of the family’s car and
ends up in Marseille, and it then goes on to Barcelona
and five other destinations before returning to Rome. <b>Banks’ graceful
writing describes the sites visited through sensory detail, while
Castillo’s soft, yet detailed art deftly fills in narrative gaps by
showing how the cat gets from place to place.</b> Some legs
of the journey may seem a bit implausible, and it’s quite coincidental
that the cat and the family keep turning up in the same places. By
book’s end, the nod to the child asleep in his bed and the cat “curled
up in a statue’s arm” nearby feels rather forced.
Nevertheless, the art presents a veritable feast for the eyes from page
to page, and Banks’ narrative is characteristically well-paced and
lyrical. A lovely, if unlikely, feline journey."<i> (Picture book. 4-8)</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Banks’s verse sees some of the great cities of Europe through the
travels of an independent black cat. Making her way by cat, boat, bike,
and bus, City Cat romps through the Coliseum, nestles under one of Notre
Dame’s gargoyles, and pads across the Bridge of Sighs. The scenery
described isn’t pinned to a specific location: “City Cat is on the run
from the morning mist/ and the baffled sun hidden by the fog./ She
squints into a smoky sky/ and sees a tower rising high.” It’s up to
Castillo, who illustrated Banks’s That’s Papa’s Way, to supply the
missing information, drawing what’s visible in the fog: Big Ben and the
Houses of Parliament. In the absence of a character to know more deeply
or a narrative to tie the book together, the meticulously drawn spreads
take center stage. <b>Castillo takes no shortcuts, drafting each city’s
distinctive architecture in soft, pleasing lines.</b> Though there are
parallels with Banks’s The Cat Who Walked Across France, this feline
isn’t trying to get home; she’s happy to wander Europe’s plazas and
cathedral squares, and to have readers trail along." Ages 3–7. (Nov.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">"City
Cat travels through Europe, paralleling a human family’s vacation.
Rhyming verse follows the stray as she hitches rides and wanders
through Italy, France, Spain, England, the Netherlands, and Germany.
Flags dot the various spreads, giving clues to the locations, which are
further described in the endnotes. <b>Lyrical verse follows
an interesting rhyming scheme and incorporates rich vocabulary, and
lush illustrations capture the atmosphere of each location with plenty
of details to invite close study. </b>Children will enjoy the fanciful
adventures of this intrepid feline as she explores
rooftops, bridges, and ancient ruins, especially when compared to the
rather boring, grounded meanderings of the human tourists. However, not
much happens in the story and the connection between the cat and the
family is not clear. Overall, this is a pretty
book for armchair travelers and cat lovers." –<i>Suzanne Myers Harold, formerly at Multnomah County Library System, Portland, OR </i>(Dec.)<i><br /></i></span></span></span><br />
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Great news! My new book<a href="http://us.macmillan.com/citycat/KateBanks" target="_blank"><b> CITY CAT</b></a> was selected to be a part of this years <b>Original Art Show</b> at the Society of Illustrators. It's such an honor to have my art hanging in the exhibition, alongside <a href="http://www.societyillustrators.org/Awards-and-Competitions/Original-Art/Featured-Artists.aspx" target="_blank">THIS</a> amazing roster of illustrators. Thanks so much to<a href="http://www.societyillustrators.org/Awards-and-Competitions/Original-Art/Juries/2013-Jury/The-Original-Art-2013-Jury.aspx" target="_blank"> the awesome jury</a> for including CITY CAT in the show. If you are in the NY area, please come join me at the opening reception this Thursday evening, October 24th. Details are <a href="http://www.societyillustrators.org/The-Museum/2013/Original-Art/Opening-Reception--The-Original-Art.aspx" target="_blank"><i>here</i></a>. Hope to see you!!Lauren Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653655339293961775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083650777501697415.post-62134216096120109672013-07-14T17:46:00.000-04:002013-07-14T17:46:31.429-04:00Happy July, friends! I've recently set up shop at <a href="http://society6.com/Laurencastillo" target="_blank"><b>Society6</b></a>. I now have art prints, t-shirts, pillows, phone cases, laptop skins, stationary, tote bags and more for sale... Pretty exciting! Please check out <a href="http://society6.com/Laurencastillo" target="_blank">my little store</a> if you'd like, and feel free to spread the word : )<br />
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<br />Lauren Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653655339293961775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083650777501697415.post-75166633482648862842013-06-03T21:47:00.001-04:002013-06-03T21:48:43.208-04:00Melvin joins the book club!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of my favorite booky events of the year is tomorrow evening! If you're in the NYC area, come out to the Jacob Javits Center for the <b>19th Annual Children's Book Art Silent Auction</b>
at <i>BookExpo America</i>! Bid on some great original art to raise money for
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Lauren Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653655339293961775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083650777501697415.post-48864514838081251582013-04-18T15:21:00.000-04:002013-04-18T15:21:34.878-04:00Exciting SPUNKY news!<span class="userContent">Just found out that SPUNKY
TELLS ALL is a nominee for the 2014 <b>Beverly Cleary Children’s Choice
Award</b>!! You can view the 7 books that were nominated <a href="http://www.olaweb.org/bccca-2014-nominees" target="_blank">right here</a>. </span><span class="userContent">Hooray for Spunky!</span><br />
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I've just begun character studies for my next (3rd) book as author, <i>Nana in the City</i>, about a boy who travels to the city to visit his nana and needs a little
convincing about why the city is a good place (for a nana) to live. I'm looking forward to jumping in to final art this spring!Lauren Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653655339293961775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083650777501697415.post-30569627490504122082013-02-14T08:44:00.000-05:002013-02-14T08:44:54.669-05:00Happy Valentine's Day!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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sketches around Union Square: 1/3/2013<br />
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Love, LaurenLauren Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653655339293961775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083650777501697415.post-90098708437509762192012-12-21T11:51:00.000-05:002012-12-21T11:51:35.316-05:00Happy Holidays<div style="text-align: center;">
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LaurenLauren Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653655339293961775noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083650777501697415.post-46187899948772245912012-12-04T12:24:00.002-05:002012-12-04T12:26:23.246-05:00100 Titles for Reading & SharingI was thrilled to find out that <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Happy-Soccer-Junior-Library-Selection/dp/0763646164/ref=la_B0069GC0GG_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1354641801&sr=1-5" target="_blank">HAPPY LIKE SOCCER</a> has been selected for <b><a href="http://www.nypl.org/collections/nypl-recommendations/lists/childrens2012#picture" target="_blank">The New York Public Library's <i>100 Titles for Reading & Sharing</i> 2012 list</a></b>!<br />
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Thanks so much to the NYPL Committee for including our book!!Lauren Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653655339293961775noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083650777501697415.post-20455631088399146832012-12-03T19:24:00.000-05:002012-12-03T19:25:42.646-05:00Let it Snow!<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3LaWbeHtdxA/UL1CSE7SfTI/AAAAAAAABfY/lcAYkq3_dFQ/s1600/BruceMuseumShow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3LaWbeHtdxA/UL1CSE7SfTI/AAAAAAAABfY/lcAYkq3_dFQ/s640/BruceMuseumShow.jpg" width="588" /></a><br />
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I'm really excited to be part of the <a href="http://brucemuseum.org/site/exhibitions_detail/let-it-snow-childrens-book-art" target="_blank">group exhibition <b><i>Let it Snow!</i></b></a> at the <b>Bruce Museum</b> in Greenwich, CT! The show is now open, and will run through most of the winter. If you are near Greenwich, stop
by and check out the art and books. As a part of this
exhibition, the museum will also be running <a href="http://brucemuseum.org/site/education_detail/exhibition-programs-for-let-it-snow-childrens-book-art" target="_blank">programs for teachers, parents and kids</a> between now and Feb. 24, 2013. Hooray for snow!<br />
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NY friends— Hope to see you at <a href="http://www.bookcourt.com/events/amy-hest-lauren-castillo">BookCourt this Saturday</a>! Come eat some <span itemprop="description"><span class="fsl">h'orderves,</span></span> drink some wine, and jump start your holiday shopping : ) Lauren Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653655339293961775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083650777501697415.post-26146295554544513692012-11-27T18:42:00.000-05:002012-11-27T18:42:09.320-05:00THE READER on 7-imp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Character studies, sketches & final art from THE READER on the very awesome Seven Impossible Things blog. Many thanks to Jules Danielson for <a href="http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=2459"><b>this nice post</b></a>!Lauren Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653655339293961775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9083650777501697415.post-34449763062682647882012-11-07T13:07:00.000-05:002012-11-07T13:07:21.294-05:00Three cheers for<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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