Iwao Takamoto was one of the Disney greats. Films like Sleeping Beauty owe a lot to his meticulous lines.
The studio was a kind of home for him -- it was a big change. Just before, he'd been in the camps. We explore the story:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/takamoto-a...
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
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Happy Year of the Horse!
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Thank you, Kathy! Happy Lunar New Year!
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Day 47 #365PictureBooks
WE ARE LION DANCERS
@bshum79.bsky.social
Happy Lunar New Year!
Excited to read this after watching our awesome local Lion Dance team, The Noble Eight!
Shum’s story captures the joy, energy and excitement for early readers, plus loaded with information.
#kidlit
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Thank you for sharing 💛
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Thank you for sharing!
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Yes! You are correct!
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Activities – Benson Shum
Thanks Meg! I've got some free activities to go with the books if your students are interested.
bensonshum.com/activities/
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Thank you, Meg for reading Alex's good fortune to them!! 🧧🙏🏽🥰
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Thank you so much, Daniel! 🙏🏽🥰
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Photo showing 3 picture books - Amy Wu and the Lantern Festival by Kat Zhang and Charlene Chua, Alex’s Good Fortune and We Are Lion Dancers by Benson Shum
Last day to enter our Lunar New Year giveaway! 🧧
Enter here: tinyurl.com/y3a9ybj6
#kidlit #LunarNewYear #books Benson Shum
02.02.2026 15:32 —
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ICYMI - we have a 3 book giveaway happening! 👇
#kidlit #lunarnewyear
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Activities – Benson Shum
Thank you so much, Vianne!! I really appreciate it. To go with the books, I also have free printable activities for the classrooms! Please feel free to share 💛 bensonshum.com/activities/
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Thank you!! 🙏🏽☺️
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Invaluable for 3d animators as well, walks are simultaneously the most important thing to be able to do, and the hardest thing to master for sure
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Lunar New Year #giveaway ! Win a copy of @bshum79.bsky.social Alex's Good Fortune and We Are Lion Dancers + Amy Wu & the Lantern Festival (illus. by @charlenedraws.bsky.social )!
1 US & 1 Canadian winner!
To Enter: tinyurl.com/y3a9ybj6
#kidlit #booksky #bookgiveaway #lunarnewyear #yearofthehorse
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🧧Lunar New Year #giveaway !
Win a copy of @bshum79.bsky.social Alex's Good Fortune and We Are Lion Dancers + Amy Wu & the Lantern Festival (illus. by @charlenedraws.bsky.social )!
1 US & 1 Canadian winner!
Enter here: tinyurl.com/y3a9ybj6
#kidlit #booksky #bookgiveaway
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Cover of HUG? by Charlene Chua, published by Kids Can Press
Happy #NationalHugDay - hugs for all who need one & want one 🫂
(As always, it’s also ok if you don’t want a hug!)
#kidlit #kidlitart
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Happy #nationalhugday
Join Little Seed as he learns and explores all different kinds of hugs non hug with new friends!
#kidlit #kidlitart #boardbooks
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Thank you for joining us!! It was so nice to meet you!
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It was a day of the unexpected. A three month delay of sentence on the college kid’s surgery, and we only made it to one bookstore. However, we met @bshum79.bsky.social at CHLA. He even read us HI, JUICE BOX! And signed one to add to Jaxon’s Child Life tool kit! 🙂
#Skybrarian #kidlit #kidlitart
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😍😍😍
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Thank you so much!
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