For those of you who haven’t checked in for a while, earlier this week, we announced the name and logo of our new kid’s book club, Bobbledy Books.
We’ve been thinking about Bobbledy for a while in big-picture ways, but before we made an official announcement, we wanted to make sure we had accounted for all the moving pieces: what it would be called, how it would work, what services we would offer. This took many months and many discussion-laced car rides up and down the east coast (and across the great midwest).
But eventually, we had everything in place except…the books themselves.
We loved the idea of doing a subscription-based book club for kids but were faced with the important question of whether we even knew how to make children’s books. We figured we were qualified, having been kids, having kids of our own, and knowing how to make other kinds of books. Perhaps this is faulty logic (or just sheer hubris), but just the other day, right before we made our announcement, Robbi completed the first illustration for the first book for the new press.
Here it is, a panel from a book about a little boy and three robots (this is the green one).
To us, it looks like a children’s book, or at least, what our version of a children’s book would look like. As for the question of whether it will read like a children’s book, we’ll leave it up to you decide once we’re done.
All we know is that we’ve lit the fuse. At some point (not too long from now, we hope) this thing is going to happen.
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