Posts under ‘children’s illustration’

Bologna Children’s Book Fair

Pippin and his Little Poppet pals are visiting Bologna Children’s Book Fair this week – how exciting!

November already! The trees still have a lot of their leaves and everything is glowing. I recently took a trip with a friend to the Keene Children’s Literature Festival in New Hampshire. Melissa Sweet, David Wiesner, E.B.Lewis, Bryan Collier and Harry Bliss all did very different and inspiring presentations. I am a huge fan of [...]

Autumnal

Winds are a-blowing and the leaves are a-turning. Makes me feel like staying in, keeping cozy and planning projects for the winter. Knitting needles have already been clicking…. and I just dug out all of my wool roving – one step closer to needle felting some little characters again. Little Pippin who I made last [...]

Summerings

Why hello there – where did the summer go? I was immersed in illustrating a chapter book for Kids Can Press and it involved a lot of firsts. Not only was it the first time I have created black and white illustrations for a book but I had also worked on them digitally, which is [...]

Spring and things

Well, hello there! My blogging activity didn’t end up getting any livelier as I got caught up in finishing The Little Christmas Elf for Little Golden Books. It was really fun working on this book – lovely folks at Random House and the author Nikki Shannon Smith is really sweet. Dream job really – nice [...]