Carol and the Pickle Toad
Esme Shapiro
What I Loved
This is my newest favorite! Ratatouille but with a toad, a pickle, and a pigeon instead of a rat. Slightly less cooking, still lots of instruction coming in from up top. Illustrations are richly colored, detailed, and whimsical.
Anyone who struggles with negative self-talk or enjoys a crisp deli pickle will enjoy this.
Chef's kiss.
Pickle Words
Crunchy, Punchy, Pickles and Poetry
April Pulley Sayre and Jialei Sun
Nonfiction
Phil Pickle
Kenny Herzog and Kelly Canby
Picture This
How Pictures Work
Molly Bang
What I Loved
This is an easy to read visual textbook. Each page has a corresponding image and the content together is digestible in just a few days.
What I learned
It's been years since I graduated from art school and my natural habitat is 3D work, so this book has been a helpful for me to dust off 2D compositional language. A refresher on the foundational co