2012 Best Children's Books of the Year

Yesterday I was thrilled to find out that Maggie & Oliver made the Bank Street College 2012 Best Children's Books of the Year list. Yippee! I'm also happy to see so many great books by friends and acquaintances on the list. Congrats to all!

Here are a few pieces of interior art. These are scans from the originals... they are printed in a lovely soft sepia color in the book:





















 

On The Desk & In The Queue

I'm working away on final art for the Sled Ride book and thinking (again!) about how to decide when a piece is finished. It's one of those questions you have to figure out over and over...

And, two more exciting book projects are lined up in the queue! (Yay!) I'll post more about them in the coming months...

(Also, fortunately, my drawing arm was not strained by the amount of pie it shoveled into my mouth this past weekend...)

Happy Book Birthday!

 Maggie & Oliver officially enters the world today!

Dept. of Good Stuff

I was knee deep in thumbnails when I hinted at it here. Now I'm thrilled to officially announce that I'm illustrating a picture book for award-winning, independent publisher Islandport Press!

The book is scheduled for late 2012, so I'll be posting more about it in the coming months. Onward to sketches!

Coming Soon!

Soon, as in, October!