NetGalley introduced me to the work of Ashley Spires this week, and, if you haven’t read any of her picture books, you’re going to be thanking them as much as I am.  Spires is both author and illustrator of The Most Magnificent Thing and Over-Scheduled Andrew, as well as many other books.  The illustrations are simple – mostly penciled backgrounds, with the colorful characters and all the action in the foreground – but also really expressive. The young inventor in  The Most Magnificent Thing, for […]