Blogging for the Cure

For this year's Robert's Snow there has been a blizzard of illustrator interviews.
Poet and kid-lit blogger Elaine Magliaro of Wild Rose Reader interviewed me and it is up now.
Bidding on my Hope in Winter begins December 3rd as part of the 3rd round of snowflakes. (First round starts November 19th so go pick out your favorites.)
other interviews today:
Monday, October 29 Dan Santat at Writing and Ruminating Joanne Friar at The Longstockings Diane Greenseid at Just One More Book!! Sean Qualls at Brooklyn Arden

this week's schedule is here.

alexandra gets a gold star

The Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards results are out and Our Friendship Rules won the gold medal in the Best Picture Book - All Ages Category.

owl post

so i sent my owl off to keene state today. i had such fun drawing an owl. at first i was rather intimated by the idea of drawing feathers. they made me think trying to draw fire or waves. tricky. i got all side tracked in my research reading about athena (notice the olive colored paint above) and then my emily dickinson reading spilled over from my snowflake.

but it all tied together last night after i was finished and thought about the quotation and athena, who grew up inside zeus's head. she would have a rather interesting take on "the Brain - is wider than the Sky."

(p.s. click on the keene state owl label below to see the post with my original sketch)

it's suppose to snow on saturday

come see all the snowflakes at Child at Heart Art Gallery this saturday, October 6th. the open house runs all afternoon. several artists will be there. (i will be signing books from 4-5.) hope to see some of you there.

And if you don't happen to be in newburyport area, you can now see all the snowflakes online at the Robert's Snow site.

alexandra out in the world

i just got an email from my publisher that OUR FRIENDSHIP RULES is a semifinalist for the 2007 Moonbean Children's Book award in the Picture book - all ages category.