illustration of Joseph
Pulitzer, from Lady Liberty: A
Biography (Candlewick, 2008)
 
3/2011
I've started a
new feature on my facebook page- a monthly book giveaway! Here are the details.
3/2011 Henry Aaron's
Dream won a Kiddo
Award!
The award is presented by James
Patterson's organization, Read Kiddo Read, to honor
"the very best books of the year for getting kids absolutely addicted
to reading".
3/2011 I started
a new
feature on my facebook
page- a monthly book giveaway, of a signed
book
with
an
original
drawing
inside! "Like" my page so you can
enter the next giveaway.
1/2011
The National Council for the Social Studies named Henry Aaron's Dream a 2011 Notable
Social Studies Trade Book for Young People!
1/2011 Henry Aaron's Dream was named a 2011 Orbis Pictus Award for
Outstanding Nonfiction for Children Recommended Book!
1/2011
Henry Aaron's Dream is a 2010
Cybils
Award
Finalist!
12/2010
Henry Aaron's Dream is a finalist for a Kiddo Award!
12/2010 Henry Aaron's Dream
was named one of Smithsonian's
2010
Notable
Books
for
Children.
11/2010
NEW! Original pencil sketches from The Gingerbread Pirates now
available in the shop!
10/2010 Jack's Path of Courage: The Life of John
F. Kennedy is now available in
bookstores!
9/2010 Jack's Path of Courage: The Life of John
F. Kennedy will be in stores October
26! In the meantime, check out the book
trailer.
9/2010 Upcoming Jack's Path of
Courage: The Life of John F. Kennedy won an Oppenheim Gold
Seal Award!
9/2010
I'm thrilled to be
a part of this exhibit: "Children's
Book Illustrators" at the Brush Gallery in Lowell, MA, featuring
original illustrations by 5 contemporary American children's book
illustrators: David Wiesner, Matt Tavares, Kelly
Murphy, David Macaulay, and Christopher Bing. Exhibit runs 9/19/10
through 10/24/10. Opening reception and book signing with all the
illustrators 10/2/10, noon-4pm
9/2010 Henry Aaron's
Dream was selected by
Booklist as one
of the Top
10 Sports Books for Youth.
8/2010 Original
artwork
from Henry
Aaron's Dream will
be
exhibited at the Museum of
American Illustration at The Society of Illustrators in New York City,
as part of "The Original Art 2010: Celebrating the Fine Art of
Children's
Book Illustrations". The juried exhibit will be on display October
20-November 24.
6/2010
Library Media
Connection gave Henry
Aaron's Dream a
starred review!
5/2010 Check out The Horn Book
Magazine's list of
recommended summer reading for kids (including Henry Aaron's Dream!)
4/2010 Henry Aaron's Dream is one of fifteen children's/YA
books featured in the 2010 Kirkus nonfiction preview! Download the
whole issue here.
2/2010 I was honored to be featured
on one of my favorite children's book blogs, Seven
Impossible Things Before Breakfast.
2/2010 I'm featured in the "Meet the
Illustrator" column in the Febraury issue of Bookpage.
First time I've answered interview questions with words and
pictures!
1/2010 The Great Lakes Independent
Booksellers Association selected Henry Aaron's Dream as the only
children's book on their "Great Lakes,
Great Reads" list for Winter, 2010.
1/2010 Henry
Aaron's Dream got a
starred review in School Library Journal!
12/2009
Henry
Aaron's Dream will
be available in stores on January 12,
2010.
12/2009 About.com
picked The
Gingerbread Pirates
as one
of the top ten Christmas children's books of 2009.
11/2009 Lady Liberty: A
Biography
was chosen for the Virginia Readers' Choice Award list for the
2010-2011 school year!
11/2009 The
Horn Book came out with
its annual list of recommended new holiday
books, and The Gingerbread Pirates
made the list!
10/2009
The
Gingerbread
Pirates got a
starred review in Publisher's
Weekly!
8/2009
I'll
be
doing
a
bunch
of
book
signings with
Kristin Kladstrup this Fall, to introduce our swashbuckling new picture
book, The Gingerbread Pirates!
8/2009
Thanks
to
Candlewick
Press,
you
can
download
a free Gingerbread
Pirates
Story
Hour
Kit with a fun craft project and a recipe for
Gingerbread cookies!
1/2009 Lady Liberty: A
Biography
made
the
2009 Capitol
Choices list of noteworthy books for children.
1/2009 Lady Liberty: A
Biography
made Book Links Magazine's "Lasting
Connections" list, which spotlights the editors' selections of the
30 best children's books of 2008 for libraries and classrooms.
1/2009
About.com
picked
Lady
Liberty: A
Biography as one of the 10
Best
Illustrated
Books
of
2008.
1/2009
Grandparents.com
picked Lady Liberty: A
Biography as one of the 10
Best
Children's
Books
of
2008.
12/2008 Susan Dove Lempke
of the International Reading Association chose Lady Liberty: A
Biography as one of the top
10
children's
books
of
2008.
11/2008 Lady Liberty: A
Biography won a Parents'
Choice
Gold
Award!
11/2008 Lady Liberty: A
Biography is on the 2009 Texas
Bluebonnet
Award Master List!10/2008 The Children's Hour
selected Lady Liberty: A
Biography
as one of the best
books of 2008.
9/2008 Lady Liberty: A
Biography was featured in The
New
York
Times
Book
Review!
9/2008
Teachers,
you
can
now
download
a
free
teacher's
guide for Lady
Liberty: A Biography.
9/2008
Original
artwork
from
Lady Liberty:
A
Biography will be
exhibited at the Museum of
American Illustration at The Society of Illustrators in New York City,
as part of "The Original Art: Celebrating the Fine Art of Children's
Book Illustrations". The juried exhibit will feature original artwork
from over 100 children's books, and will be on display October
16-November 26.
8/2008 Here's a nice review of Lady Liberty:
A
Biography
in The
Boston
Globe.
7/2008 Doreen Rappaport and I were
guests on
The Book
Report. Listen to the entire one-hour radio program here.
6/2008 Lady
Liberty: A Biography
got a starred review in The
Horn Book Magazine!
6/2008 Lady
Liberty: A Biography won an Oppenheim
Gold
Award!
5/2008 Amazon.com
has picked Lady
Liberty: A Biography as one of the three best
pictures
books of May!
5/2008 Lady
Liberty: A Biography is
getting
some
really
nice
reviews
from
the
blogosphere- here's one
written by Julie Danielson at Seven
Impossible Things Before Breakfast, one by Julie M. Prince at YA
Books
Central, and one by Stacy Dillon at Booktopia.
Thanks,
bloggers!
5/2008 Lady
Liberty: A Biography will
be
available
on
May
13.
In
the
next few weeks, I'll be doing
presentations and book signings at Little
Shop
of
Stories in Decatur, GA, Book
Ends in Winchester, MA, Barnes
and Noble in Newington, NH, and the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
in Amherst, MA. See a full list of events here.5/2008- Lady Liberty: A Biography got a
starred review in School Library Journal!
4/2008- Lady Liberty: A Biography got a
starred review in Kirkus Reviews!
4/2008- I'd like
to help
spread the word about Our White House: Looking In,
Looking Out (Candlewick, September, 2008), a 256-page collection of
writings and artwork offering a look at American history through the
prism of the White House. I am honored to have contributed an
illustration to the book, alongside work by 107 acclaimed writers and
artists, including David Macaulay, Brian Selznick, Chris Raschka,
Kate DiCamillo, M.T. Anderson, Jane Yolen, John Scieszka, and Leonard
Marcus.
4/2008- Lady Liberty: A Biography got a
starred review in Booklist!
3/2008- If you're in the Boston
area, and you'd like to get a sneak peek at my next book, Lady Liberty: A
Biography, please come to
the Concord Free Library
on Saturday, March 8 at 2:00. There will be a few advance copies
on hand, and I'll be doing a slide presentatiaon about the process I
went through while working on this book.
1/2008- If you're in the New York
City area, I'll be signing books at Books of Wonder on
Thursday, January 31, 5:00-7:00pm, with Kadir Nelson.
11/2007-
Robert's Snow: For Cancer's Cure:
Here's a great opportunity to buy a one-of-a-kind Christmas gift, and
help an important cause at the same time. Exclusive
original pieces of art- wooden snowflakes decorated by 200
children's book illustrators- are being auctioned off to raise money
for cancer research. Bidding on my snowflake ends November 30, but
several snowflakes will be available until December 7. I saw all the
snowflakes in person, and they're amazing!
11/2007- IRON
HANS: A GRIMMS' FAIRY TALE won a Parents'
Choice
Award!
9/2007- IRON
HANS: A GRIMMS' FAIRY TALE is now available in stores!
9/2007- Here's a
nice
review
of JACK AND THE BEANSTALK from a newspaper in South Africa.
8/2007- Thanks to the Boston Public Library and their excellent "Read
Your
Way
to
Fenway" program, I'll be signing books before the game
at Fenway Park on Sunday, August 19, underneath the right field
grandstand! Visit my events page to see
where else I'll be.
6/2007- I
started a new
illustration yesterday for LADY LIBERTY: A BIOGRAPHY, written by
Doreen Rappaport. I'll be tracking its progress on my blog. If you're
interested in seeing how
I
make
my
illustrations, check it out. And if you have any
questions or comments, let me know.
1/2007- 'TWAS THE NIGHT
BEFORE CHRISTMAS made the BookSense NEIBA (New England Independent
Booksellers Association) Bestseller
List!
It was listed at #11 in the Children's Fiction/Illustrated category for
the week ending December 28, 2006, trailing only 4 picture books- The
Polar Express, Where the Wild Things Are, Goodnight Moon, and
Pirateology!
1/2007- Check out my
new blog! I'm new to the
world of
blogging, so I'm not making any promises... but if you're interested in
seeing sketches, works-in-progress, and other behind-the-scenes picture
book stuff, you just might like it
12/2006- 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE
CHRISTMAS
featured on the Parents'
Choice
Foundation's
Holiday
Gift
Guide!
12/2006- Two nice
new
reviews for 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by The
St.
Louis
Post-Dispatch and the Wall
Street
Journal!
12/ 2006-
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK won a Parents'
Choice Gold Award!
12/2006- Check out
Deirdre Baker's excellent review of JACK AND THE
BEANSTALK in the Toronto
Star. She calls the book
"glorious", and calls my Giant "squalidly
repulzive." That's good, right?...
12/2006- a nice review of
both 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS and
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK in The
Bangor
Daily
News
10/2006- JACK AND THE
BEANSTALK featured on 612 ABC
Radio in Brisbane,
Australia!
10/2006- JACK AND THE
BEANSTALK got a starred review in School Library
Journal!
10/2006- JACK AND THE
BEANSTALK was selected for the New York
Public Library's 2006 "100 Titles for Reading and Sharing" list!
10/2006- Original artwork
from JACK AND THE BEANSTALK will be
exhibited at the New York Public Library Central Children's Room,
November 13, 2006- January 5, 2007.
10/2006- Original artwork from JACK AND THE
BEANSTALK is being
exhibited at the Museum of
American Illustration at The Society of Illustrators in New York City,
as part of "The Original Art: Celebrating the Fine Art of Children's
Book Illustrations". The juried exhibit will feature original artwork
from over 150 children's books, and will be on display October
26-November 22.
10/2006- Maurice Saxby, Australia's leading
critical
commentator of Children's Literature, wrote this wonderful review of
JACK in Magpies
Magazine.
9/2006- JACK
AND
THE
BEANSTALK is now
available!
4/2006- MUDBALL is one of
ten nominees for the Vermont state
children's book award, the Red
Clover Award!
4/2006- MUDBALL
is one
of eight nominees for the 2007 Nevada
Young Readers Award!
1/2006- The St. Louis
Post-Dispatch named MUDBALL one of the 6 best
picture books of 2005!
11/2005-
Original
artwork
from
MUDBALL
is
being
exhibited
at
the Museum of
American Illustration at The Society of Illustrators in New York City,
as part of "The Original Art: Celebrating the Fine Art of Children's
Book Illustrations". The juried exhibit will feature original artwork
from over 150 children's books, and will be on display November
2-November 23.
50 illustrations were selected (including the MUDBALL one) for a
traveling exhibit that will be shown at the Rochester Institute of
Technology after the conclusion of the NYC exhibit.
For more information on "The Original Art": http://www.societyillustrators.org/index.html
11/2005- Also,
original
artwork from 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS will be
exhibited at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, PA. The
exhibit, called "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" will feature many
different illustrators' interpretations of the poem, bringing together
paintings, prints, drawings and other imagery from the 1800s to the
modern day. Included are works by Thomas Nast, Everett Shinn, N.C.
Wyeth, Jessie Willcox Smith, and many others, past and present. The
exhibit will run from November 25 through January 8.
For more information: http://www.brandywinemuseum.org
-Robert's Snow 2005:
Exclusive
original pieces of art- wooden snowflakes decorated by 200
children's book illustrators- will be auctioned through eBay this fall
in Robert's Snow: for
Cancer's Cure. Last year
they raised over
$100,000 for cancer research! Click here
to view my snowflake.
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