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one week in: solid feedback, if you still need a gift for a kid or someone with a kid, perhaps consider:

the children’s poetry book section on amazon (in general - not new releases) is pretty heavy hitting: all “real” authors, but i did just get up in the top 100 there:

when researching nursery rhymes for this book, i enjoyed how odd and tautological some of them were. this is my favorite:

btw according to the robot algorithm at amazon i am fit to be ranked alongside manga (which is technically filed as ‘children’s book’) (?)

it's an honor to be let into a a child's world. i take it very seriously. at the risk of sounding grandiose, i wanted to make a civilizational transmission: a thread running through the anglospheric mind for a kid to tug at.

thanks for scoping my pics. hope your winter vibe is unfolding well.

we read some older poetry anthologies here. i made this because i felt like there wasn't one that "went hard" in the way i would. really making a package where the message is: you, as an english speaking kid, have this huge treasure chest of linguistic artistry waiting for you.

...emily dickinson, lord byron, edward lear, and way more.

i believe i went through over 2000 pages of older books to select these. i was very pleased to get certain authors in, like rudyard kipling, who you can see below. i also snuck a ben franklin in there.

the book spans from folk rhymes and nursery rhymes all the way up the early 1900s. you can see two nursery rhyme pages below.

a short list of heavy hitting authors included: lewis carroll, shakespeare, rudyard kipling, poe, wordsworth, milton, william blake, beatrix potter ...

this book was inspired by reading with my son. i was impressed by how much each book became a part of his world, and opened up new aspects of our world to him.

for that reason, the below poem by A. A. Milne (he wrote winnie the pooh) is the keystone for what the book is about:

hey bluesky. if you’re looking for a gift for a kid this christmas, might i suggest… myself. i just released a heavily illustrated anthology of poetry that runs from nursery rhymes to the 1600s to the early 20th century.

you can find that here:
(more pics in the replies)

amazon.com/dp/B0G4K8X79X

hey. went afk to get my next book ready

if you know anyone into my work, or the topics i generally cover, today may be the last day to order this package and get it in time for christmas. takes me a few weeks to get these in

(we are already in holiday mode, charting shipping dates and logistics)

third rejected new yorker cartoon while im wrapping up my next book. (tried to meet them halfway on this one).

second rejected cartoon. i liked this one. perhaps i am just built for the internet, where readers are more comfortable with creatures in complex implied mortal danger.

here’s some cartoons that got rejected from the new yorker. first up. someone on my end said they wouldn’t go for a joke about “kids drowning”. it’s not really about that though, is it? i think we’re getting a little sensitive here.