Welcome to the illustration section of the December Carnival of Children’s Literature.  As there are a lot of categories, I decided to post them all separately. First up we have Early Literacy followed by: Fiction, illustration, interviews, non-fiction, and poetry.

Sarah, Local Love: Books for Children in New England, I talk about how illustration and book design support the text of chilling fairy tales in LIES, KNIVES, AND GIRLS IN RED DRESSES.

Zoë from Flippity Flup talks about My post is a brief review of Julia Donaldson’s ‘The Further Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat’. I loved reading the book and would love other bloggers to hear about it and read it too!