This week I am up at a Summer camp in New Hampshire, called Beam . It's a camp which invites artists, architects, engineers, craftspeop...

Click on the image for more information This Sunday afternoon, June 26, from 4-5pm, I will be reading and drawing and signing books at po...

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Abrams gave me a heads up that there was a possibility Daniel Pinkwater might review Crows of Pearblossom on Weekend Edition this Saturday. ...

I wrote Are You Awake? nine years ago, when my son was about three. We had only been living in New York for a short time but had taken a ...

The pictures above were swiped from cabinetcardgallery and luminouslint but I have my own large collection of 19th century studio portrait...

Jules Danielson over at 7-imp invited me to come and do and show-and-tell about Crows of Pearblossom, so I did. Here is the title she gave...

I will be at Books of Wonder , (the only bookstore I know of where picture books are arranged alphabetically by illustrator ) in NYC this Sa...

I had an excellent time illustrating PW's Spring Children's Announcements cover last week. You can click on the image for a larger v...

Two Book Maker's Dozen events coming up on Friday March 4th and Sunday March 6th. Click on the invites for closer inspection. Hope to se...

Happy Year of the Rabbit! Learned scholars assure us the rabbit will bring wisdom and kindness and calm to the year ahead. (He has his work ...

It was a recent honor to be invited to the ABA Winter Institute in Washington DC with Abrams Books to present The Crows of Pearblossom , Ald...

Wishing you joyful, festive times in the company of people you love, and all sorts of good things to look forward to in 2011: creative endea...

From the Bookmaker's Dozen : "Please come out and join us at our first little shindig at Powerhouse Arena Where: Powerhouse Arena, ...

Two events this weekend where I will be signing, reading, chatting, drawing, blowing up balloons...hang on, I vowed not to do that ever agai...

Being an illustrator is a wonderful thing. You get to draw wild boars and rocket ships and petticoats and harpoons. You get to spend most of...

Big Red Lollipop is in the New York Times Top Ten Best illustrated Children's Books of 2010 . I have been a bit heavy handed with the e...

I was about half way through a gloomy day just now, when the doorbell rang and a dripping UPS man handed me a package. I thought it might ha...

Pecan Pie Baby , written by Jacqueline Woodson is out in the stores. There are lots of pictures and sketches from the book over at the fabul...