MORE, MORE, MORE!

✍✎ It's Freewheelin' Friday! ☄✒

Dedicated to Artistic Endeavors of all Sorts

It's also launch week for writer/artist/illustrator
BRIAN LIES☚cool website

Freewheelin'? 
Have I mentioned that he has wheeled around in these...  

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because Brian's the New York Times
bestselling author of these.
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And now there's...

a LOT more~~

Brian takes I.C. Springman's spare 
perfectly chosen words:
NOTHING  * FEW  * SEVERAL  * LOTS
  illustrates a magpie on a mission,
 {the twigs, a marble, that comb, those blocks...}

 and mice sounding the alarm,
 as 
  the 
collecting 
escalates! 

He'll have you counting, poking & studying,
{the pocket watch, a tarnished rattle, 
that harmonica,
those stamps & that ace of spades...}
with ~& without~a toddler at your knee. 

There's even, ummm, more! 
Brian illustrated this tale of the hoarding magpie on handmade papers. He chose half a dozen sheets, from pale & nearly clear, to dark & fibrous "...to echo the crescendo of the bird's collection, with papers which crescendoed in deepening color and organic inclusions~banana and mango leaf pieces, hay, etc." 

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brianlies.com 
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a joyful read & cautionary tale for all 
~little guys to grownups~ 
brought to life by a master at his craft.

"Dramatic paintings add depth and foreboding to a lesson about excessive materialism."--Kirkus

"The fable offers a finely drawn, restrained 'less is more' lesson about attachment to things."--Publishers Weekly

"This is a timely, clearly needed fable for contemporary society as it tries to unravel itself from excessive materialism. Ideal for discussions about reducing consumption."--School Library Journal, starred review

Head to your nearest indie bookstore. 

Pick up MORE for the child in your life 

                        &

MORE for your permanent collection.