News
February, 2010
PAPA GATTO is now an i-phone app!
Now children can read along on an i-phone while the narrator reads the story of PAPA GATTO. Produced by PicPocket Books®, text pages alternate with images from the book. The narration is superbly done.
Here are a few sample pages...
This app can also be read on the new ipad, a large format, full-color device announced this month by apple computer, which will be for sale in the next month or two.
Downloads cost $2.99 each.
Click HERE to order PAPA GATTO for the iphone!
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January, 2010
PUZZLEBOOKS!
I have invented a new product - a book that turns into a puzzle that turns back into a book.
These are perfect for 3-6 year-olds
The pieces are numbered, which helps with the book page order as well as making it fun for children who are learning to count.
Each piece becomes a page in the book when stacked and bound with the easy-to-use rings. Younger children might need some help at first with clipping the pages together, but it should become part of the fun to make their own book, take it apart, make the puzzle, then stack the pieces, bind them with the rings and make the book again!
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WHITE MOUNTAIN PUZZLES is the distributor of the PUZZLEBOOKS. They are starting with CINDERELLA and MOTHER GOOSE. I'd so appreciate anyone passing the word on these - It is tough to market something new but I hope these will take off and I'll be able to repackage some of my out-of-print picture books and give them new life in a different and entertaining format.
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2009 NEWS ARCHIVE
Holiday 2009 News
My version of The Night Before Christmas is back in print in a special edition sold exclusively at
POTTERY BARN KIDS, (look under KIDS/BOOKS) along with plates, tumblers, a Santa snack set, ornaments, and a puzzle.
If anyone on your Christmas list is a puzzle fan, SUNSOUT has a number of puzzles for sale with
my images, including three Unicorn puzzles (one is above) and a Fall Faerie with 1500 pieces.
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October 15, 2009
THE FINISHED BEARS!
I finished these in May, 2009
See below for the details
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BEARS IN PROGRESS:
APRIL, 2009
I am painting two fiberglass bears for the Easthampton Bearfest,
based on Papa Bear and Baby Bear from my upcoming book, Goldilocks.
You can often find me on a Saturday morning,
painting in front of the MANHAN CAFE on Cottage Street.
Look for GOLDILOCKS this Fall
September, 2009 - GOLDILOCKS received a starred review in KIRKUS!
NEW HORSE DIARIES STORY - OCTOBER 2009
KODA is a Quarter Horse story, set on the Oregon Trail. These have 18-20 interior drawings.
A great chapter book series for horse-loving girls!
I am now working on the next two in the series for release next year- a Lippizanner story and an Appaloosa story.
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SNEAK PREVIEW
HUSH LITTLE HORSIE written by Jane Yolen
This will be a fall 2010 book
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2008 NEWS ARCHIVE
------2008 EVENT CALENDAR------
March 28th 4pm-6pm and March 29th 2pm-6pm - MOTHER GOOSE BOOK SIGNING and Open House at my studio at the the Thorndike Mills Art Center in Palmer, MA. I will have all of the paintings from the book for viewing; books and prints, cards and gift items will be on sale.
May 2nd : 10:30am - Storytime and booksigning at Barnes and Noble, Milbury, Ma ( 70 Worchester Providence Turnpike)508-865-3525
July 19th 1pm Slide talk and booksigning at The Eric Carle Picture Book Museum of Art, Bay Road, Amherst, MA
October 10-12 FAERIECON in Philadelphia
November 6-9 ILLUXCON Altoona, PA
November 16-Jan 31 R Michelson Galleries in Norhhampton Ma - Children's Book exhbit of origianl art
November 29-30 Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair at the Town Hall, Main Street, Monson Massachusetts
9-4 on Saturday and 12-4 on Sunday
December 6-7 : Open House at my studio in the Thorndike Mill Art Center,
4145 Church Street, Thorndike, MA From 10-4 each day.
December 12 7-9 pm Signing at Barnes and Noble in Holyoke, MA
DIRECTIONS TO MY STUDIO: From Mass Pike: Take exit 8, turn left onto Rte. 32. At second light take a left. Go straight, over RR tracks and at the end of the factory complex and metal building on left, turn left into Gate 4, the final factory gate. Enter door with blue arches.
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I have just created my very first FAERIES calendar for 2009 -
available on Cafe Press
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Goldilocks Sneak Preview
Here is the painting that I recently finished (in March) for the cover of my version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Little, Brown 2009)
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New Random House Horse Series
I am very excited to be on board at the beginning of this great new series of horse stories for Random House. Think "Black Beauty meets the American Girl Series" and you've got the idea. These two will be published in spring 09, the next one will be a Quarter Horse story for fall of 09, and then there will be hopefully one every spring and fall for as long as the series is selling well. I am in horse heaven. There will be 18-20 interior black and white drawings in each book. The age range is around 7-12
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A NEW BLACK STALLION BOOK
Here is the wrap-around cover I finished in April (08) for the new Black Stallion story, The Black Stallion and The Shape Shifter, by Stephen Farley. This will be published by Random House in 2009.
I plan to offer prints of this in the fall as well, so check back or sign up for my newsletter for details.
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Mother Goose is here!
Look for my 64-page Mother Goose and Friends in March 2008. See a sneak preview of the artwork on the Galleries page.
Do you recognize Mother Goose?
It is the modern-day rhymer herself, Jane Yolen.
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Two new chapter books for 2008 -
SUMMER PONY and WINTER PONY
Summer Pony and Winter Pony are two really sweet chapter books written in the 70's by Jean Slaughter Doty. Random house is re-issuing them in 2008 with new covers (above) and 12 interior black and white illustrations.
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---FALL 2007 EVENT CALENDAR---
October 1-30: Exhibit at the Manhan Cafe, 23 Union St., Easthampton, MA
Nov. 1-4: Exhibit: Showing at The World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga, NY
Nov. 15 Booksigning -Easthampton Library
Nov. 24-25: Monson Arts Council Holiday Fair - Booth #1 - Town Hall, Main Street, Monson, MA (10-4 and 12-4)
December 1-31: Exhibition of 20 original paintings at the Needham Public Library, Needham, MA ( Dec 1st program and booksigning 3pm)
December 15-16: Open Studio at my studio at The Thorndike Mill Art Center - 4145 Church Street in Palmer, MA (10-6 Sat. and 12-6 Sun.)
-----AUCTION NEWS-----
Robert's Snow: for Cancer's Cure
Illustrator Grace Lin founded this auction in 2004 with her husband, Robert Mercer (who has recently passed away from Ewing's Sarcoma) to raise money for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Every Nov-Dec over 200 snowflakes are auctioned off, all painted by children's book illustrators.
The Final Auction is LIVE.......Dec 3-7th.
My snowflake is now up for auction along with some wonderful artwork by other children's book illustrators....
(Click on the Robert's Snow link above - to bid!)
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MY EBAY AUCTIONS
Next Auction - December 2nd-9th, 2007
My next auction on Ebay will be The Nancy Drew Flying Saucer Mystery, which I illustrated in 1980. This will include a pencil sketch of Nancy on the half-title page, shown below. I have started to offer some extra copies of my "collectible" books on Ebay, and will post a few every other month or so. I'll include the listings in my newsletter and I will also have the direct link here.
---PUBLICATION NEWS---
MORE SAINTS, Lives and Illuminations (Eerdmans, 2007)
More Saints received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Read about it on the , and see some interior paintings on the Galleries page.
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