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August 16, 2010

cat

Part of the dummy for an upcoming book. It might not be a cat in the final book though.

August 5, 2010

Sarah Jessica Parker and Grumpy Bird

A friend of mine just pointed me to this nice link. If you click on the Sarah Jessica Parker video under the LITERACY CHAMPIONS headline you can see a copy of Grumpy Bird prominently displayed behind Ms. Parker. Nice!!!!!!

August 5, 2010

Sherman

Indulging my current interest in machines. I was accused by a grade two student a few months ago for the decided lack of trucks and vehicles in my books. I admit to having an aversion to drawing machines. So perhaps I can learn to overcome this by practicing a bit. Here’s a Sherman tank. I recently watched Kelly’s Heroes (an old Clint Eastwood movie) that I had remembered enjoying when I was much younger. It held up pretty well. Donald Sutherland plays Oddball, a Sherman commander. He’s almost the best part of the movie. World War 2’s only hippie. He enjoys riding in a Sherman. So this was inspired by Oddball and his Sherman. And I kind of like the idea of a cute tank.

August 4, 2010

sketchy tiger

A tiger. I thought he was pretty cute.

July 31, 2010

Me Hungry review

I thought I’d share this lovely review of ME HUNGRY! courtesy of B is for Books. She makes mention of the book being vegetarian friendly. It’s funny, I’d never really thought of that before. But I suppose it is. Thanks for liking my book so much Thao!

July 7, 2010

Me Hungry! write-up

ME HUNGRY! was the featured review on Word of Mouse the other day. Thanks Word of Mouse!

July 2, 2010

Nice blog write-up

I just saw this lovely little write-up about my books. I thought I’d share it. Thanks Erica!

July 1, 2010

Lovers Lock

My friends Ryan and Jenn met at the book launch for Grumpy Bird a couple of years ago. I still think it’s one of the best things about the launch. Check out Ryan’s little story about how he and Jenn met. It’s good!

May 31, 2010

Blue Spruce Winner

I can’t believe I’ve been too busy to report this! Boo Hoo Bird WON THE BLUE SPRUCE AWARD for 2010!!!!!!!! I was as surprised as the next person. Here’s a link to the list of winners 2002 to the present. And here’s a link to all the winners from the Forest of Reading program.

May 20, 2010

Two more reviews

Two recent reviews of the Bird books from the Warren County Public Library. First up is their review of Grumpy Bird. And here is their review of Boo Hoo Bird.