I am very happy to be the featured seller on Etsy today and am using the opportunity to clean out some paintings from my studio, and turn ...

I have finally, finally delivered Spinster Goose , Twisted Rhymes for Naughty Children (written by Lisa Wheeler to be published by Atheneu...

I mentioned Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me last year, but I'm thrilled she just won the Newbery Award (which is all to do with w...

Moving house around Christmas time was stupid, but moving while I have six books either due, nearly due or overdue was insane. This picture ...

I think I might be mad. I have three (or is it five?) picture books now officially overdue, I'm moving house in ten days time, I haven...

The new Ivy and Bean is out, book 6, Doomed to Dance. If anyone is in New York this Saturday, in the vicinity of the Brooklyn Museum , betwe...

It's been rather a long time. I've been a bit consumed with the other blog , and this one has become the overlooked sibling. The hom...

This is an illustration which accompanied a review in yesterday's Boston Globe of E. L. Doctorow's Homer and Langley . I don't ...

In response to a truckload of requests (or a snoodful at least), I have made prints available for purchase. I have started with images from ...

This is the cover for Rebecca Stead's new novel, When You Reach Me , and a couple of the alternative early stage sketches. I'm alway...

Here are two posters I illustrated recently for Piper Theatre productions of Hamlet (top) and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (above). If you l...

Many Observer-reading friends sent me a link to this article about pop star Mika last night, with the following fantastic tidbit: "Wai...

More than twenty surreal children turned up at the library yesterday to shuffle nouns and verbs and adjectives and elbow each other (ever so...

If you happen to be in New York this Saturday, in the vicinity of the Mulberry Street branch of the Public Library, around 2pm, I'm goin...

Yesterday, at BEA in the cavernous Javits Center in New York, Annie Barrows and I handed out hundreds of these Ivy and Bean cookies. I was r...

New things in the Etsy shop! Click on any picture to take you there...

I've just finished a picture book for Viking, called Big Red Lollipop, written by Rukhsana Khan. I guess it will be out next Spring? I n...

Wombat Walkabout is out today I believe. The Common Wombat was described by William T. Hornaday, Sc. D.(I promise that was his name), in the...

I have started a new blog here , of drawings based on Missed Connections . I'm staying local for now, and in typical, overly ambitious ...