illustration
of Joseph
Pulitzer, from Lady
Liberty:
A
Biography
(Candlewick, 2008)
 
7/2014
I'll be reading, signing books, and
doing a drawing demonstration at The
Smithsonian
American
Art
Museum in Washington, D.C.,
on July 19, part of the Baseball
Family
Festival! The event will
run from 11:30 to 3:00 (my program
starts at 1:00).
6/2014
Becoming Babe
Ruth
is a 2014
Comstock
Read
Aloud
Honor
Book!
5/2014 Becoming
Babe
Ruth
made Bank Street's Best
Children's
Books
of
the
Year
list!
2/2014 Jubilee!
got a starred review in Publisher's
Weekly!
5/2013
There
Goes
Ted
Williams:
The
Greatest
Hitter
Who
Ever
Lived
and Helen's
Big
World both made
Bank Street's Best
Children's
Books
of
the
Year
list!
3/2013 Becoming
Babe
Ruth featured
in The
New
York
Times!
1/2013
Helen's
Big
World is a 2013
ALA
Notable
Book!
1/2013
Helen's
Big
World was
named a 2013 Charlotte
Zolotow
Award Highly
Commended book!
1/2013
Becoming
Babe
Ruth got a
starred review in Booklist!
8/2012
Another starred review for
Helen's
Big
World! This one
from School Library Journal.
8/2012 Helen's
Big
World got a
starred review in The Horn Book
Magazine.
7/2012 There
Goes
Ted
Williams:
The
Greatest
Hitter
Who
Ever
Lived
was
named
a
Top
Ten
Sports
Book
for
Youth
by
Booklist.
4/2012
There
Goes
Ted
Williams:
The
Greatest
Hitter
Who
Ever
Lived
won
an
Oppenheim
Gold
Seal
Award!
3/2012 I'll
be
traveling
around
quite
a
bit
this
spring
promoting my new
picture book,
There
Goes
Ted
Williams:
The
Greatest
Hitter
Who
Ever
Lived
(Candlewick).
Check out my events
page to see where I'll be.
11/11 Over
the
River
and
Through the Wood
featured in The
New
York
Times!
8/2011 I'll be traveling
around New England this Fall
promoting my new picture book, Over
the
River
and
Through the Wood.
Check out my events
page to see where I'll be.
8/2011 My
upcoming There
Goes
Ted
Williams:
The
Greatest
Hitter
Who
Ever
Lived
(Candlewick, February, 2012) is a
2012 Junior Library Guild
selection. I'm very excited for
this one to come out!
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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