LITTLE TUG is docking near you!

Princeton Children's Book Festival

Saturday, September 8, 2012, 11 - 4pm

(LITTLE TUG reading at 2:20pm)

Brooklyn Book Festival

Sunday, September 23, 2012, 10 - 6pm

(LITTLE TUG reading at 11:30am)

Powerhouse Books 

LITTLE TUG launch party

Brooklyn. NY

Sunday, October 7, 2012, 4 - 5pm

Rhode Island Festival of Children's Books & Authors

Providence, RI

Saturday, October 13, 2012, 9 - 5:30pm

Books of Wonder

New York, NY

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Words

Maplewood, NJ

Saturday, November 10, 2012  - 11am

Brooklyn Museum Children's Book Fair

Saturday, November 17, 2012  - noon to 4pm

Where's Walrus? Indonesia!

Indonesian students enjoy my 2011 book Where's Walrus?, donated to their school by Scholastic Asia. Photo courtesy of the Asia Foundation.

Fall Announcements!

The fall children's book season is upon us and I had the distinct honor of illustrating the announcements cover for Publisher's Weekly.

Old School

My editor, Neal Porter, likes to kick it Old School. Our new book, Little Tug, has a cloth spine and the cover is paper over board.

Little Tug

Publisher Neal Porter and I unveiled our new picture book, LITTLE TUG, at Book Expo in New York City today. It hits bookstore shelves in October.

International Reading Association Award

When my editor David Saylor and I set out to create WHERE'S WALRUS?, we worried about the response from librarians and educators. Would a wordless book be welcomed into the classroom? The response has been an overwhelming 'yes'! This month, we proudly accepted the IRA's Primary Fiction Award at their annual conference in Chicago. 

Cyber-portrait

My portrait on the cover of this week's New York Times Book Review of sci-fi writer William Gibson, the man who coined the term "cyberspace".

NYTBR

Today's Christmas edition of the New York Times Book Review features a bunch of my spots.

Connecticut Children's Book Fair

Stefanie, Chloë and I drove up to the University of Connecticut to attend the Connecticut Children's Book Fair, November 12-13. Fair organizers Terri Goldich and Suzy Staubach hosted a wonderful dinner at the Nathan Hale Inn where Mo Willems, Matt Tavares, Wendell Minor, Tommie dePaola and I expressed our gratitude by drawing all over the plates, cups and silverware. Terri and Suzy confiscated the doodled dinnerware and donated it to the Dodd Center.

I'll be speaking, along with Marla Frazee and Paul Zelinsky, at the Society of Illustrators in New York City next month.

Communication Arts Design Annual

2011 Target Children's Book Festival

I'll be appearing at the Target Children's Book Festival in Minneapolis on September 10, 2011 along with Peter Brown, Nancy Carlson, Bob Shea, and Olympic gold medalist (and children's book author) Kristi Yamaguchi. Yeah, you betcha!

Vacation

I was happy to get a call last week from Brad Walters, art director of the Health and Science section of the Washington Post. The assignment appears in today's paper.

Double Bill

I had the great privilege of reading and signing books yesterday at Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn with author/illustrator Frank Viva. His new book, Along a Long Road, is just lovely.

My op-ed art is da bomb!

Horn Book ad

Walrus celebrates literacy

This year, Scholastic launched a global literacy campaign: “Read Every Day. Lead a Better Life”. Yesterday, I had the great privilege of joining 11 other artists marking the event, and we spent the day wining, dining and signing at the company headquarters in New York. Each of us created posters for the campaign, and original lithographs of the images were auctioned off. One of the posters had a Big Red Dog on it... and looked vaguely familiar. That's right. Norman Bridwell, who turned 83 this year, was there in attendance, along with his darling wife, Norma. Meeting the couple was an honor and a pleasure, and I was humbled to discover that Norman created Clifford in 1963— two years before I was born!

The poster posse: L to R: Jon J. Muth (Zen Shorts), Mary GranPré (Harry Potter), Norman Bridwell (Clifford the Big Red Dog), Raina Telgemeier (Smile), Bruce Degan (The Magic School Bus), Barbara McClintock (Our Abe Lincoln), Ed Fotheringham (Tony Baloney), David Shannon (No, David), Jeff Smith (Bone), Sean Qualls (Dizzy), Mark Teague (LaRue) and (gulp) me. Photo credit: Stuart Ramson.

NY Times Book Review illustration

My work in today's Times is 'Patently Obvious'

Brooklyn's in the house!

I spent the morning at the Brooklyn Public Library, speaking to 200 kindergardeners, first graders and second graders from PS 9 and PS 282. Thanks to my gracious hosts Paquita Campoverde and Judy Zuckerman.