The cover of this April 1, 1987, issue of BOOKLIST, featuring TOMIE DEPAOLA’S MOTHER GOOSE, was also a large 22” x 44” inch poster, published by the American Library Association.
The poster promoted National Library Week with the slogan: Take Time to Read Together… Use Your Library. (Bob)
Pray for Peace, Justice, and Equality
An Orderly Transition would be nice, too.
Think and say the word, or think and say “Peace.”
Pray for Peace, Justice, and Equality
Tomie was not very good as a team player on committees because of his, shall I say, confidence in his opinions.
Yet, he was always happy to travel to Washington, DC, to help judge the Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) poster contest and hang out with friend Lynda Johnson Robb and the likes of Anne Richardson, “Patron of Literacy” (NEW YORK TIMES), and wife of former Attorney General Elliot Richardson.
Tomie created this drawing for the finalist of the 1987 RIF contest.
One year, Tomie was given one of the finalist’s drawings. He chose ten-year-old Regina’s drawing of a scene in the Gulf of Mexico or the ocean. Regina was a fifth grader in Louisiana.
Decades later, in September, 2018, I came across Regina’s drawing and noticed her application information on the back of the drawing. With the help of the internet, I was able to write to Regina and ask her if she wanted the drawing returned to her. She was thrilled.
We found it especially interesting that she, as an adult, chose a career as an environmental scientist in Louisiana seemingly foreshadowed in her fifth grade RIF drawing. (Bob)
Pray for Peace, Justice, and Equality
An Orderly Transition would be nice, too.
Think and say the word, or think and say “Peace.”
Pray for Peace, Justice, and Equality
Today is National Bird Day. Tomie loved drawing birds - stylized birds - in illustrations, doodle pads, large paintings, small paintings, everywhere.
I think he would have enjoyed the news articles this weekend about bird-watcher crowds flocking to a Maryland park to see an unusual sighting, so far north, of a painted bunting.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/04/painted-bunting-bird-maryland-park
https://ebird.org/species/paibun/L214293
(Bob)
Pray for Peace, Justice, and Equality
An Orderly Transition would be nice, too.
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