{"id":8076,"date":"2013-04-03T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2013-04-03T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T10:00:55","slug":"pileska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=8076","title":{"rendered":"Exhibits Not to Miss: One Just Opening, One Soon to Close, and One Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"charlotte's<\/a>Before it closes after April 21, anyone with an excuse to get to the fabulous Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art <\/a>in Amherst, Massachusetts, should nab the chance to see\u00a0 Some Book!\u00a0 Some Art!:\u00a0 Selected Drawings by Garth Williams for Charlotte\u2019s Web<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, which celebrates the book’s\u00a060th anniversary and what would have been Garth Williams\u2019 100thbirthday.\u00a0<\/em>One particularly sweet note: the website mentions that the exhibit showcases, among other pieces, “The Carle\u2019s very first art acquisition\u2014the drawing of Lurvy tossing a bucket of water on Wilbur [p. 128].” Aww!
\nI haven’t had the opportunity to see the exhibit yet, and since Charlotte’s Web<\/em> is my all-time favorite children’s novel (if I were forced to choose just one), I will be going! Hope to see you there.
\n\"gashlycrumb<\/a>Perhaps the sorrow over the closing of this exhibition can be partially assuaged by ogling original artwork and manuscripts at The Gorey House<\/a>‘s tribute to the 50thanniversary of an Edward Gorey trilogy called The Vinegar Works: Three Volumes of Moral Instruction<\/strong>. <\/em>The trilogy includes one of Gorey’s most famous works, The Gashlycrumb Tinies<\/a>. <\/em>(I had a poster of this alphabet of ghastly ends of unfortunate waifs on my college dorm walls \u2014 “A is for Amy who fell down the stairs \/ B is for Basil assaulted by bears,\u201d and so on. I had thicker skin back then and thought it was hilarious.) The other two books in the trilogy are The Insect God<\/em> and The West Wing.<\/em> I’m a huge fan of Gorey’s distinctive, elegant, wickedly sly style and have always wanted to visit the Gorey House in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts. Now I have an excuse! The Vinegar Works exhibit will run from April 18 to sometime in December, so there’s time!
\nIn case you’re looking for more children’s book-related outings, the Children’s Book Council <\/a>has a nice ongoing Calendar of Events<\/a>. I’d love to see this expand even more and be a clearinghouse for activities across the country! Ideally, there would be subsections: say, one for art and manuscript exhibitions, one for panel and scholarly discussions and lectures open to the public, and one for readings and signings.
\nAnd here’s a heads-up for next month: bookmark this link<\/a> to keep an eye on a chance to own some brilliant children’s book art! One of the best events in children’s-book land is the Association of Booksellers for Children’s annual silent auction featuring original art\u2014sketches and finished paintings and sometimes sculptural art\u2014by children’s book illustrators who generously donate work in a fundraising benefit for ABFFE<\/a>, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, which is an organization dedicated to protecting free speech and fighting censorship. Published children’s book illustrators may donate art<\/a> up until April 29, and the auction will have a live component at BookExpo America on May 29 at the Javits Center in New York City, as well as an online component here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a spring filled with original children’s book art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}