Leo Dillon, Author, Diane Dillon, Author Blue Sky Press (AZ) $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-47893-9
Two-time winners of the Caldecott Medal, the Dillons (The People Could Fly ) here take readers to what might be termed the king of all jam sessions. The venue: an imaginary Saturday night concert featuring seven of the genre's greats, from Thelonius
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Leo Dillon, Author, Diane Dillon, Author, Diane Dillon, Illustrator . Scholastic/Blue Sky $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-47883-0
In a departure from their recognizable illustration style, the versatile husband-and-wife team here uses a striking gouache painting technique that pays homage to Harlem Renaissance artist Aaron Douglas to craft an exuberant picture-book tribute to...
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Author, Diane Dillon, Author, Leo Dillon, Author HarperCollins $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-024903-8
Elements of fantasy and folklore intertwine in both the telling of and the artwork for this haunting, mystical tale. Unaware that her father was an east wind, Resshie, now a young woman, yearns to be a part of the sky. To support herself, she takes...
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Virginia Hamilton, Author, Leo Dillon, Author, Diane Dillon, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $18 (151p) ISBN 978-0-394-82873-2
The inspired pairing of this Newbery winner and these two-time Caldecott recipients has yielded a heartfelt and ultimately heartening chronicle of African Americans from the earliest days of slavery to the 1865 ratification of the 13th Amendment to...
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Diane Dillon. Blue Sky, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-338-16690-3
The title of Caldecott Medalist Dillon’s first solo outing sounds as if it’s about dreaming big, but its real focus is on quieting the internal voice that undermines those dreams. “I’m a bird. I can fly way up high,” announces a girl named Zoe; she...
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Diane and Leo Dillon. Blue Sky, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-338-33265-0
Spare, serene paintings cast a tranquil air in this story by the Caldecott Medal–winning team (Ashanti to Zulu), completed by Diane after Leo’s death in 2012. With a child on the way, a young couple hunts for furniture. They spot a white rocking...
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