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Each bird in turn makes an excuse for not setting out, until at last they are all ready to get started.

The hoopoe (hudhud or tajidar) is here the spiritual guide leading the birds through perilous valleys to Mount Qāf and the mythical Simorgh.

Original hoopoe piece, painted in full colour with mineral pigments and gold on paper

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Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · Jul 24

Bright and beautiful! I love it.

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Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 24

La Patita de canasta y con rebozo de bolita va al mercado a comprar todas las cosas del mandado 🎶🎶

Testing some watercolors today! 🥰

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 18

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

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Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · Jul 10

Starting reading it but will hold off until I see the movie. Will admit, I am almost more excited to read the review.

Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · Jul 10

FFC review: SUPERMAN (2025), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/07/supe...

Superman (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

****/****starring David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Edi Gathegiwritten and directed by James Gunn by Walter Chaw I’m in the bag for Superman, I admit it. I grew up in a small town, Go...

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Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · Jul 5

Yes! Good luck!

Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · Jun 18

I love this art so much!!! Good luck to you in the competition!

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Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · Jun 13

Can't wait for you to read it!

Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · Jun 12

Right? No better sound for two coconuts colliding. 😁

Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · Jun 12

JIM! isn't even in my local library yet. So glad to see it in yours!

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Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · Jun 12

Oooh, I like the mustachioed mediator. If you don't get along, he'll clonk your heads together.

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Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thank you, Troy!

Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · Jun 12

Let me know when it does!

Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · Jun 12

Back when I was mentoring, I used to advise aspiring picture book authors to study oral storytelling. The best way to do that? Attend storytelling events! Like this one (tonight!) with storyteller extraordinaire, Tim Ereneta.

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MoonShine Stories: STRAWBERRY MOON, June 2025

Tim Ereneta: "Tim is a contemporary, hip storyteller... original and authentic." ~ Gay Ducey, Bay Area Storytelling Festival

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Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · Jun 12

Oooh. I want it to be D, but I think it's A.

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Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · May 30

Ugh. Same here.

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Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · May 22

I would have guessed parakeets. Despite their screeching being far from a muffled noise.

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Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · May 19

What's that? You're running out of ways to transport your favorite James Marshall picture books? May I suggest this vintage Viola Swamp tote bag? 🖤🖤

Come to my Zoom party for a chance to win this rare bit of picture book merch! Register below 👇

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A split image. The left side is of a tall man browsing books in a bookstore. He stands in the middle of a long corridor bordered by shelves full of books. Over his shoulder is a tote back decorated with a cartoon illustration. The right side is a closeup of that illustration. It's of a severe looking woman with her hair parted in the middle and set into two side buns. Text on the illustration reads: VIOLA SWAMP IS WATCHING YOU AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!

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Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · May 17

Thank you, Eija! Would have been fun to see you but I'll look forward to the next one. 😁

Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · May 16

Did I mention the prizes include a signed copy of James Marshall's Hansel and Gretel that features an ORIGINAL James Marshall sketch? 👀👀👀

Come to the party! Sign up here!!

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a copy of James Marshall's picture book Hansel and Gretel sits on a wooden desk

An ink sketch of a cartoon witch on red paper. The drawing is signed "James Marshall".

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Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · May 16

STANLEY Q. STUPID SPEAKS!!! Tom Arnold gives me a shout out for my James Marshall biography. A true thrill!

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STANLEY Q. STUPID SPEAKS!!!

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Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social · May 12

This one felt personal in a way all the other garbage hasn't.