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The first exhibition organized by San Francisco’s McEvoy Foundation for the Arts—established in 2017 by Nion McEvoy of Chronicle Books—brings together an impressive selection of works from McEvoy’s own collection alongside that of his mother, Nan Tucker McEvoy, both world-renowned collectors whose family legacy began with the founding of the San Francisco Chronicle in 1865. This impressively executed catalog illustrates the Foundation’s wide-ranging debut show, which highlighted the family collections’ strengths, documented here alongside an essay by curator Kevin Moore and an introduction by Nion McEvoy. A particular emphasis on Californian artists (Richard Diebenkorn, David Hockney, Ed Ruscha, Wayne Thiebaud) is matched by a wide array of recent acquisitions by artists including Anne Collier, Roe Ethridge, Nan Goldin, Carsten Höller, Ragnar Kjartansson, Zoe Leonard, James Welling and Christopher Williams, across mediums including sculpture, photography, installation, painting, video and illustration.

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With 80 sturdy flaps to lift and more than 200 key words, this handsome book encourages early reading skills as children enjoy hours of fun matching pictures and words and naming things. Clear labels and simple, fun texts challenge pre-readers to think and reason as they search for things, answer questions and explore the world. AGES: 1 to 3 AUTHOR: Steve Mack is a Canadian-based freelance illustrator and design specialist who has worked with Sesame Street, Hallmark, Penguin Publishing, Scholastic and Chronicle Books. He is currently working on new children's books, designing baby toys, greeting cards, magazine publishing and animated shorts for television and online. SELLING POINTS: . Promotes literacy . Builds word recognition . Encourages interaction with a parent or sibling . Improves hand-eye coordination . Brimming with surprises and fun to help instil a love of books and reading

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With 80 sturdy flaps to lift and more than 200 key words, this handsome book encourages early reading skills as children enjoy hours of fun matching pictures and words and naming things. Clear labels and simple, fun texts challenge pre-readers to think and reason as they search for things, answer questions and explore the world. AGES: 1 to 3 AUTHOR: Steve Mack is a Canadian-based freelance illustrator and design specialist who has worked with Sesame Street, Hallmark, Penguin Publishing, Scholastic and Chronicle Books. He is currently working on new children's books, designing baby toys, greeting cards, magazine publishing and animated shorts for television and online. SELLING POINTS: . Promotes literacy . Builds word recognition . Encourages interaction with a parent or sibling . Improves hand-eye coordination . Brimming with surprises and fun to help instil a love of books and reading

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Hats of Faith is a beautifully illustrated children's board book introducing readers to the shared custom of head covering. Using accurate terminology, phonetic pronunciations and bright, beautiful imagery, Hats of Faith helps educate and prepare young children and their parents for our culturally diverse modern world. Hats of Faith features 9 different head coverings including, a Turban, Hijab, Rasta Hat, Patka, Tichel, Chunni, Topi, Kippah and an African Head Wrap. AGES: 0 to 6 AUTHOR: Medeia Cohan is an experienced writer, but this is her first children's publication. Hats of Faith is a passion project for Medeia who firmly believes that early familiarity with faith-based customs and diversity will lead to kinder future generations. Sarah Walsh has illustrated a wide range of projects, from toys and home décor to apparel and greeting cards, as well as children's books and activity projects such as Draw Bridge, also published by Chronicle Books. She currently lives in Kansas City. SELLING POINTS: . Accurate terminology, phonetic pronunciation and clear information . Encouraging an early and open dialogue between parents and children . Inspiring tolerance and understanding of others

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Written for the budding publicist in any industry, for individuals who simply want to better understand how to generate press attention, and for those who retain publicist yet wonder what they actually do, this book is informative for one and for all. Generating publicity is not about knowing some wonderful secret, or about knowing the right people, or about having good luck. It is about employing a methodology and a series of steps in a thoughtful and dedicated manner. AUTHOR: With over twenty years of experience as a publicist, David Carriere began his career publicising books in 1986. He honed his professional techniques on both coasts of the United States at numerous publishers, including HarperCollins Publishers and Chronicle Books, and with book producers such as Callaway Editions and Weldon-Owen. In 1999, David launched his own publicity firm and is now nestled in Massachusetts, where he handles the publicity needs of a select few clients across a wide variety of industries. The author is a graduate of Saint Michael's College in Vermont.

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Blob the fish is excited that he has just won the ugliest animal in the world contest! But the popularity and fame that accompany Blob's win soon go to his head. And the loneliness of his new title goes to his heart. And of course, fame never lasts forever. "An irreverent and insightful modern fable about beauty, ugliness, the paths to acceptance, and how admiration hijacks our sense of self. ... The illustrations by Tallec lend the humorous story a lovely dimension of tenderness. Blob comes alive as a sensitive creature of contradictions—full of determination yet easily given to dejection, a living fable of ego and insecurity, easy to fault but also easy to love. ... Under Tallec’s subtle brush, we see a difficult realization dawn on Blob—privilege is bestowed largely by chance and little of actual substance separates the most fortunate from the least fortunate. There is something charmingly subversive about the very premise, as paradoxical as the idea of trying to fail at failure. There is also something profound in the questions it raises about our civilizational fascination with beauty and its counterpoint—what does it really mean to be ugly..."—Brain Pickings “An insightful tale about beauty and self worth. The illustrations are incredible with personality and humor oozing from the pages.” —The Reading Ninja Author Joy Sorman was a philosophy professor before she devoting herself to journalism and writing. Her first book was Boys, Boys, Boys, a challenging feminist story about a girl who is a little different. Sorman also works in TV and radio journalism. Olivier Tallec is an illustrator based in Paris. Following his graduation from the École Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques, he worked in advertising as a graphic designer. He has subsequently devoted himself to illustration and has illustrated more than sixty books, eleven with Enchanted Lion Books including Who What Where? Louis I, King of the Sheep and Big Wolf and Little Wolf and Who Done It? from Chronicle Books.

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