8/2024 The Shape of Things, written by Dean Robbins and illustrated by me, is now available! 6/2024 The Shape of Things is a Junior Library Guild selection! 12/2023 Dasher Can't Wait for Christmas made the National Indie Bestseller List! 11/2023 Hoops was named a 2024 Charlotte Huck Award Recommended Book! 11/2023 Hoops was named a New York Public Library Best Book of 2023! 10/2023 Hoops won the New England Book Award, in the middle grade category! 10/2023 Hoops won a Good Housekeeping Kids' Book Award! 9/2023 Announcing the Dasher Can't Wait for Christmas tour! I'll be spending most of November and December reading, drawing, and signing books at bookstores around the midwest and New England. Details here... 9/2023 Get your official Dasher Can't Wait for Christmas tour merch here! T-shirts, hoodies, adult and youth sizes available. 9/2023 Dasher Can't Wait for Christmas is now available! 5/2023 Hoops has made the Indiebound National Bestseller List in each of its first 7 weeks since publication! 3/2023 Hoops debuted at #5 on the Indiebound National Bestseller List! 2/2023 Hoops was named to the Kids' Indie Next List by the American Booksellers Association! 9/2022 Good news: Hoops is a Junior Library Guild selection! 12/2022 Dasher made it back onto the New York Times Bestseller list for its 4th Christmas in a row, hitting #9 last week!   6/2022 I made a graphic novel! It took forever, but it's finally done. Hoops, coming in March, 2023. I can't wait! 12/2021 Dasher made it back onto the New York Times Bestseller list for its 3rd Christmas in a row, hitting #3 last week! 12/2021 Dasher cracked the top 100 on the USA Today Bestseller list for the first time, hitting #76 last week! 12/2021 Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was named to the Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2021, School Library Journal Best Books of 2021, and the Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2021 lists! 11/2021 Jeff Gottesfeld and I won the Audrey Geisel Friend of Military Children Award, for Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 11/2021 My poster design, featuring the cover art from Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. was chosen by the US Department of Veterans' Affairs as the official 2021 Veterans Day poster. it will also serve as the cover for the program for the Veterans Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, honoring the 100th anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 3/2021 Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is now available! 2/2021 Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier received starred reviews from Kirkus, The Horn Book, and Shelf Awareness! 12/2020 Dasher made the New York Times Bestseller List, the USA Today Bestseller list, and the Indiebound National Bestseller list! 3/2020 A Ben of All Trades is now available! 1/2020 Dasher spent 8 consecutive weeks on the Indiebound National Bestseller list, including 3 weeks at #2! 12/2019 Dasher made the New York Times Bestseller List!!! 11/2019 Dasher made the Indiebound National Bestseller list!! 9/2019 Dasher is now available! 11/2018 If you're looking for prints of my artwork... good news! Archival museum quality giclee prints of some of my illustrations are now available through Society6. They come in multiple sizes and can be ordered framed or unframed. 9/2018 Lighter Than Air was selected by the Society of Illustrators to be included in their exhibit of the best children's books of the year, The Original Art 2018! The exhibit opens on November 8 at the Society of Illustrators in New York City. 4/2018 The National Council for the Social Studies and the Children's Book Council selected Lighter Than Air for the Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2018 list.   12/2017 Red & Lulu finished 2017 in style, with five consecutive weeks on the Indiebound National Bestseller List!  Thanks to independent bookstores across the United States, and thanks to everyone who bought a copy! 12/2017 Nice mention of Red & Lulu on Betsy Bird's A Fuse #8 Production blog 12/2017 Red & Lulu hit #5 on the Indiebound National Bestseller List for the week of 12/6/17! 11/2017 Red & Lulu made its debut at #10 on the Indiebound National Bestseller List for the week of 11/29/17! 9/2017 Red & Lulu was selected by the Society of Illustrators to be included in their exhibit of the best children's books of the year, The Original Art 2017! The exhibit opens on November 2 at the Society of Illustrators in New York City. 9/2017 Red & Lulu got a starred review in Publishers Weekly! 8/2017 I'll be traveling around quite a bit this fall reading and signing Red & Lulu. Here's where I'll be. Come say hi! 5/2017 Crossing Niagara made the Bank Street Best Children's Books of the Year, 2017 list! 4/2017 Red & Lulu (coming in September) is a Junior Library Guild Selection! 2/2017 Lighter Than Air is a Junior Library Guild Selection! 10/1016 Growing Up Pedro won a Massachusetts Book Award Honor! 9/1016 Growing Up Pedro won an International Latino Book Award! More News...

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