Karin Snelson

Language, books, music, the sea, axolotls, the usual.

[Karin Snelson @treehornshrinks]

This is not what I imagined The Thinker thinking.

[Karin Snelson @treehornshrinks]

@USBBY has posted its 2024 Outstanding International Books (OIB) list. What a sea of beauty! I was thrilled to see two of the books I adore--and helped translate/edit--with @EnchantedLionBooks on the list! https://t.co/FxUwUbymRT #WorldKidLit

[Karin Snelson @treehornshrinks]

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

[Karin Snelson @treehornshrinks]

@MeghanGurdon, critic for the @WSJ, chose French visionary Blexbolex’s THE MAGICIANS from @EnchantedLion (and me!) as one of the best children’s books of the year. Criteria: « fizz and real feeling »! ❤️

[Enchanted Lion Books @EnchantedLion]

🥳 HUGE NEWS!!!! @WSJBooks has selected not one, but two Enchanted Lion titles as #BestChildrensBooks of 2023! ✨✨✨

Congratulations to THE MAGICIANS by @blexbolex, trans. from French by @treehornshrinks, and BUNNY & TREE by #BalintZsako 👏

Full list: https://t.co/mLDg44sCM8

[Karin Snelson @treehornshrinks]

The French import "101 Ways to Read a Book" by Timothée de Fombelle and artist Benjamin Chaud (and translated by @redcometpress publisher @YuenKillick and me) made the @nytimes Holiday Gift Books for Children list today! "Oddball charm" is exactly right!
https://t.co/srvy34oih8

[Karin Snelson @treehornshrinks]

The Magicians (@EnchantedLion) gets its fourth shiny star from @bookpage and @yijiang_! "Elevated word choice and spirited phrasing give a timeless quality to Blexbolex's fantastic graphic novel, which muses upon mercy, change and possibility." https://t.co/jTjwQrs9dd

[Karin Snelson @treehornshrinks]

So exciting to see two of the beautiful picture books I worked on with @EnchantedLion on the “Best of 2023: Our Favorite Children’s Books” list from @KirkusReviews! Congratulations to genius artist #VioletaLopiz, the authors, translators, designers, and the ELB team! ❤️

[Travis Jonker @100scopenotes]

I love putting this post together. The Most Astonishingly Unconventional Children's Books of 2023: https://t.co/GYybs1gbWh

[Enchanted Lion Books @EnchantedLion]

AT THE DROP OF A CAT is the 2nd of #VioletaLopiz’s NYT/NYPL Best Illustrated Awards!

Written by Elise Fontenaille & trans. from Fr. by @treehornshrinks & Emilie Robert Wong, this is a beautiful, multilayered story of a boy & his larger-than-life grandpa:
https://t.co/eom4CkEaPL

[Karin Snelson @treehornshrinks]

November 7 is the book birthday for the fascinating French artist Blexbolex’s 200-plus-page visual stunner The Magicians, a translation by me and @EnchantedLion! Will magic disappear from the world along with the last three remaining magicians? On verra.

[Karin Snelson @treehornshrinks]

It’s time for you to shine, Pia.

[Karin Snelson @treehornshrinks]

October 17 is the book birthday of 101 Ways to Read a Book, a delightful book I co-translated from French with Angus Yuen-Killick @redcometpress! Do you read too long in the sun like the Lobster? Or are you perhaps the Water Lily, reading while immersed in a bath tub? Find out!

[Library Comic @LibraryComic]

Book Review: 101 Ways to Read a Book by Timothée de Fombelle, illustrations by Benjamin Chaud
https://t.co/6XpRot84Ap
#bookreview #picturebook #picturebookreview #reading #books

[Karin Snelson @treehornshrinks]

French artist-author Blexbolex’s gorgeous book THE MAGICIANS from @EnchantedLion gets its second starred review, this time from @PublishersWkly!

[PWKidsBookshelf is now on Bluesky @PWKidsBookshelf]

★ “Visually stunning” THE MAGICIANS by #Blexbolex is a “dreamlike fantasy graphic novel adventure that celebrates creativity, imagination, and magic” https://t.co/hGkRATFwdo

[Karin Snelson @treehornshrinks]

Oriecchiette! Bucatini! The Story of Pasta and How to Cook It by Steven Guarnaccia just arrived on my doorstep and suddenly I’m ready for fall! @GuarnacciaS @phaidonpress

[Karin Snelson @treehornshrinks]

@deanrobbins @malvernprimary @katieheit @GalltZacker @Scholastic @metahatem @scholasticuk 😆

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https://t.co/Z7qfaZ1Us3
Hooray! A starred Kirkus Review for The Magicians, a gorgeous, dreamlike, action-packed « tour de force » by French artist/author Blexbolex, due from #EnchantedLion on November 7.

[Karin Snelson @treehornshrinks]

Mr. Takeout

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@skeetermeeter @nabisco 😂

[Karin Snelson @treehornshrinks]

Delight du jour: One French way to say something is unusually great/flawless is “not nibbled by beetles.”

“…pas piqué des hannetons”