Storytime with Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh reads Lotus & Feather, written by Ji-Li Jiang and illustrated by Julie Downing.
“The Very Hungry Cthulhupillar”
The Cthulhupillar has risen in R’lyeh and it is hungry. (Thanks, Sachin!)
“Trippy Hippy Kid’s Books of the 1960s and 1970s”
It’s a little gallery of 1960s and 1970s children’s book covers and illustrations collected by Ang Wyman!
6,000 Children’s Books
Open Culture has an archive of 6,000 historical children’s books free for you to enjoy online! “Occupying a space somewhere between the purely didactic and the nonsensical, most children’s books published in the past few hundred years have attempted to find a line between the two poles, seeking […]
“Beautiful Books, Terrible Times”
Hyperallergic has a piece on Soviet children’s books between 1920 and 1935, with images from Inside the Rainbow: Russian Children’s Literature 1920-35: Beautiful Books, Terrible Times. “The 1920s in Russia weren’t exactly what people had hoped they would be. After the 1917 Russian Revolution brought down the old regime […]
“Four Continental Black Afrikan Speculative Fiction Artists”
Chronicles of Harriet profiles Black African artists who work in speculative fiction: Loyiso Mkizse; Tobe “Max Spectre” Ezeogu; Setor Fiadzigbey; and the artist of Kiro’o Games.
The Cultural Gutter 