What with all the “picture book is doomed” talk you hear around the watercooler these days (note to self: stop pretending the internet is full of cool, drinkable water), I highly approve of the following manifesto from a crew of excellent authors and illustrators. It will run in the just-released Horn Book Magazine (and online at www.thepicturebook.co). Words to share.
(Thanks to Mac Barnett for the link)
About Travis Jonker
[...] you, Travis Jonkers, for the alert to The Picture Book Proclamation that is part of Picture Book Month founded this year by Dianne de Las Casas and now being [...]