I remember finding my then middle-schooler, voracious reader of all things, lying on the floor with a small stack of picture books after a rough day at school. She knew good medicine. Behold, indeed! Congratulations, Mac -- this is the best.
Congratulations!!! I did a pop up display in our library with both of your work, individual and collaborative, highlighting your ambassadorship and Jon’s wonderful new board books! Next week I’ll draft our proposal to bring you to our library…. Just saying…it’s in 🇮🇹. Not a bad place to rest during your whistle-stop tour! 😅🙏✨📚 🪄
Congratulations Mac! This is so well deserved and I'm excited to see what you do with your platform. I've loved that our kids keep returning to the picture books on their shelves, and that so many pictures books help with the many questions and milestones in life, in a way that makes it easier to have conversations and figure things out together. It's such an important medium!
It pains me to admit that I could easily be the kind of mom who 'evolves' her children to 'real' books at a certain age. But I still remember the first time I heard Mac say that his mother never took the picture books off his shelves and that just made sense to me. I'm sure your platform will help many moms see picture books in a new light. Congrats again, Mac! They couldn’t have picked a better person for the job!
Congratulations Mac! Your platform makes so much sense to me and is so powerful because honoring picture books = honoring kids. I would love it if we replaced pride in "growing out of picture books" with a love and respect for them. Behold the picture book!
I remember the excitement I felt when I knew the picture book was Mac’s focus. I think I saw it in Publishers Weekly, and then it led me here. Anyway, huge congratulations and way to go, Mac！
Congratulations! The perfect person for the job. I love that your campaign is focused on picture books. You work with some amazing artists! My third graders have gotten quite familiar with the names Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen along with several others this year!
Congratulations, your excellency! I’ve for sure overheard parents steering their kids away from picture books. I fell in love with picture books while reading them to my kids and became an author in order to learn about the art form and to write them myself. I soon learned how hard it is to do it well!
My own kids (10 and almost 13 (and therefore not a child so she says)) still love picture books. Maybe that comes from having a children’s book author as a parent!
I reached out to our local principal TODAY to put together a proposal for a school visit. Congratulations, Your Excellency, and keep fighting the good fight for children's literature!
“I do think that we rush kids out of picture books, and that they appeal to a much wider swath of readers than we think.” This is an interesting insight. I’m lucky my mother is a long time elementary school teacher (and just overall picture book enthusiast) so I was always surrounded by them and seeing the latest and best well into my teen and early adult years. It’s always been fun to me look at them and appreciate them in different ways in each stage of my life (including now that I’m reading them all to my kids). Thanks Mom for not rushing me out picture books!
"I think a deeper respect for kids' books requires a deeper respect for kids."
Yes.
Congratulations Mac! This is so well deserved.
Can we hope for an English translation of La Porta Segreta, which would fit nicely with your new duties? 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
I remember finding my then middle-schooler, voracious reader of all things, lying on the floor with a small stack of picture books after a rough day at school. She knew good medicine. Behold, indeed! Congratulations, Mac -- this is the best.
Congratulations!!! I did a pop up display in our library with both of your work, individual and collaborative, highlighting your ambassadorship and Jon’s wonderful new board books! Next week I’ll draft our proposal to bring you to our library…. Just saying…it’s in 🇮🇹. Not a bad place to rest during your whistle-stop tour! 😅🙏✨📚 🪄
Congratulations Mac! This is so well deserved and I'm excited to see what you do with your platform. I've loved that our kids keep returning to the picture books on their shelves, and that so many pictures books help with the many questions and milestones in life, in a way that makes it easier to have conversations and figure things out together. It's such an important medium!
It pains me to admit that I could easily be the kind of mom who 'evolves' her children to 'real' books at a certain age. But I still remember the first time I heard Mac say that his mother never took the picture books off his shelves and that just made sense to me. I'm sure your platform will help many moms see picture books in a new light. Congrats again, Mac! They couldn’t have picked a better person for the job!
Congratulations Mac! Your platform makes so much sense to me and is so powerful because honoring picture books = honoring kids. I would love it if we replaced pride in "growing out of picture books" with a love and respect for them. Behold the picture book!
I remember the excitement I felt when I knew the picture book was Mac’s focus. I think I saw it in Publishers Weekly, and then it led me here. Anyway, huge congratulations and way to go, Mac！
Congratulations! The perfect person for the job. I love that your campaign is focused on picture books. You work with some amazing artists! My third graders have gotten quite familiar with the names Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen along with several others this year!
Hooray for picture books! Congratulations!
Congratulations, your excellency! I’ve for sure overheard parents steering their kids away from picture books. I fell in love with picture books while reading them to my kids and became an author in order to learn about the art form and to write them myself. I soon learned how hard it is to do it well!
My own kids (10 and almost 13 (and therefore not a child so she says)) still love picture books. Maybe that comes from having a children’s book author as a parent!
Picture books = my favorite form of literature.
Cheering from Ann Arbor, MI!
I reached out to our local principal TODAY to put together a proposal for a school visit. Congratulations, Your Excellency, and keep fighting the good fight for children's literature!
“I do think that we rush kids out of picture books, and that they appeal to a much wider swath of readers than we think.” This is an interesting insight. I’m lucky my mother is a long time elementary school teacher (and just overall picture book enthusiast) so I was always surrounded by them and seeing the latest and best well into my teen and early adult years. It’s always been fun to me look at them and appreciate them in different ways in each stage of my life (including now that I’m reading them all to my kids). Thanks Mom for not rushing me out picture books!
So well-deserved, Mac. You are already acting the part, so why not make it official! Congratulations!
Congratulations, Mac! What an amazing honor and platform to do a lot of good for the kiddos. And we certainly need more good and joy right now.