Just One More Book

Here's an interview I did the other day with Mark Blevis from the Just One More Book podcast.

Just One More Book is a thrice-weekly podcast which promotes and celebrates literacy and great children’s books. I love listening to Mark and Andrea interview authors and illustrators, so it was an honor to be featured on their show. Definitely visit their web site, and scroll down their amazing list of authors and illustrator interviews and book reviews.

Lady Liberty video

Here's a short video about the collaborative process involved in creating Lady Liberty: A Biography. It's a clip from a DVD produced by Candlewick Press entitled "Open Studios", which also features segments about Peter Reynolds and Timothy Basil Ering. You can view other clips from the DVD at Candlewick.com.

Lady Liberty interview

Here's a recent interview from "207", a nightly magazine show on Portland, Maine's NBC affiliate, WCSH.

Upcoming Events for Lady Liberty: A Biography

When Doreen Rappaport and I arrived at Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, Georgia on Wednesday, we were greeted by this gigantic frog, sitting in the window, reading Lady Liberty: A Biography to a smaller frog. They seemed to like it. I think they could relate to Lady Liberty, because they're also green, and made of copper.
Here are some of the other places I'll be during the next couple weeks:

May 10 2:00-4:00 Book Ends, Winchester, MA, slide presentation on the making of Lady Liberty: A Biography, and book signing

May 17 12:00-2:00 Barnes & Noble, Newington, NH, reading and book signing

May 18 12:30-2:30 Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, slide presentation on the making of Lady Liberty: A Biography, and book signing

Here she is...

photo by Paula Renda

Monhegan Library

Here are some photos from one of my favorite library events of 2007- the reading/signing I did at Monhegan Library on Monhegan Island, in Maine.

note: I brought the illustration I was working on to the library that day, to show people an illustration in progress. If you look closely, you can see the partially-painted picture from Lady Liberty displayed on the easel. The final illustration is now on my web site.

Yaz

I guess it's time to take the autographed picture of Roger Clemens down from my studio wall.

There goes one childhood hero. At least I still have Yaz... I drew this picture of Carl Yastrzemski in 1983, when I was 7. If I remember correctly, I was coloring at my grandparents' coffee table on the day of Yaz's final game at Fenway. I think I copied a photograph from that day's Boston Globe.

(note: I still think Z's should face the other way...)