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Jon's Eyes

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By Jon Klassen
| lookingatpicturebooks.com
Deep dives on great picture books. Picture book recommendations. Working on picture books. Looking at Picture Books merch. A few weeks ago, we did a post on the evolution of our book Sam & Dave Dig A Hole, which, as far as I could remember, was the first time I’d drawn human people with eyeballs in a book. That is to say, eyes with whites and pupils, that weren’t just kind of elongated black dots.
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The House with Nobody in It

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By Jon Klassen, Renee Nault, Christina Gonzalez
| Publishers Weekly
The House with Nobody in It In this gently eerie board book ghost story, Klassen (Your Truck) invites readers to venture into the ostensibly empty residence that inspires the work’s shape. Narration proceeds in a neutral tone as a speaker invites the curious to enter via a doorway: “There is nobody in this house. There used to be somebody. But there is nobody now.
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Your Truck: Your Things Series Book Review

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By Jon Klassen, Mandie Caroll 
| Common Sense Media
age 2+ Deceptively simple, utterly charming truck bedtime book. Parents need to know that Your Truck by award-winning author-illustrator Jon Klassen is the first installment in his Your Things series. Unlike the Your Places series, which is best enjoyed as a set, this book is a complete story that explores only one main object—your truck. The text invites little readers to be curious, imaginative, and creative about their truck.
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