I have been burying myself in research for A Fine Dessert, in a lovely, but boggy sort of way. For instance, I spent the better part of a ...

  As I mentioned in the last post, Emily Jenkin's A Fine Dessert begins: A bit more than three hundred years ago, in an E...

A Fine Dessert is a book about blackberry fool, made by a farmer's wife and her daughter in England in 1710, a plantation slave and her...

I am starting in on a new picture book. It's always an exciting time; blank canvas and all that. When it's a book you've writte...

Here are a few of my delightful visitors at the Princeton Book Festival last weekend. Over 75 girls, a few boys and one brave librarian d...

 This Saturday September 21st (tomorrow in fact!) I will be at the Princeton Children's Book Festival, (with an astonishing bunch o...

 I am thrilled to be collaborating with the Design Company, Whigby, on a series of Missed Connections greeting cards . Whigby, in th...

Watch out, you diabolical masterminds! There’s a new detective on Pancake Court: Bean! She laughs at danger! She solves even the ...

If you are in New York next Monday, please come and say hello.  I'll be at The Bubble Lounge in Tribeca, 228 W Broadway from 7...

I am thrilled to announce The Mighty Lalouche is finally here! The author, Matthew Olshan and I first met competing for a cool spot at ...

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I have been on the road a bit lately. I visited the Gates Foundation in Seattle to open the exhibit, Let Every Child Have a Name , and was...

After a decade, ten books and around 700 drawings, I have painted Ivy and Bean for the last time. The tenth book, written of course by th...

When anyone in the studio finishes a book, a bell is rung. We have yet to install a proper bell, so the bell in question is Sergio Ruzzier ...