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June 16, 2008
Me Hungry! is the daily fave over at Parenting.com. I’m very lucky to have my book singled out like this. What an honour!
And speaking of honours: I was not honoured with a Libris Award last night. Oh well. Melanie Watt took home the prize for best illustrator of the year (and best author — lucky her!). Well deserved I say. Go Melanie Go!!!!
June 8, 2008
This is awesome: Boston Celtics guard Rajon Rondo was seen reading Grumpy Bird to a group of kids the other day at the Blackstone Community Center in the South End of Boston. The article, in the Boston Herald, says a star-studded cast was on-hand to open a new computer lab and reading room. Check out the photo of Rondo with my book!
May 25, 2008
Seeing as Betsy over at School Library Journal just did a post about book trailers I think this might be the perfect time to upload the two ME HUNGRY! trailers to this website for your viewing pleasure. However, my initial attempts to upload them did not work. So for now go and check out Betsy’s blog and enjoy them there. I’ll get them uploaded here as soon as I can figure out how.
May 23, 2008
Here’s a nice acknowledgment: ME HUNGRY is the featured book of the week at Babble.com this week. How nice is that? They’ve also posted one of the animated book trailers on the site.
ME HUNGRY also got a little nod from the delightful Patricia Storms (whom I just about typed as Sue Storm — how nerdy am I?).
Also a very brief review in the Liverpool Echo in the UK. Nice to get an overseas review!
May 23, 2008
Grumpy Bird made the top five list of baby and children’s books over at the Baby Buy Products website. Go take a look, he’s in excellent company.
I’ll also be doing a little write-up, hopefully, of the recent Blue Spruce Awards ceremony. I didn’t win, but got an honourable mention.
May 15, 2008
Oh, man! It’s been too long since I last wrote an entry here. I’ve been busy though. Since the Toronto launch of ME HUNGRY! I’ve been working hard on my next book (actually I’ve been working on it for half a year, but only occasionally), and spent some time in Saskatoon at the Literacy for Life Conference.
I recently did an interview for BookPage magazine. Each month they interview an author/illustrator and have them hand-write/illustrate their interview. It’s a really cool way of doing an interview and the end result is lots of fun. The hardest part was figuring out what to leave out — I wanted to write and draw a lot more than they gave room for! It’s in the May issue of BookPage if you’re interested. They also just uploaded the interview to their website so I can now share it with you! Go take a look.
April 22, 2008
Today is the official release day for ME HUNGRY! So… I strongly encourage all of you, dear blog readers, to head to your favourite book shop and purchase a copy. And if they don’t have a copy tell them it’s a great book and they should carry it. It’s also Earth Day so you could walk or ride your bike to the book store.
Happy ME HUNGRY day!!!
And Happy EARTH DAY!!!
April 20, 2008
Another award nomination! Is this crazy or what? I’m up for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award. Two awards will be given, one for picture books and one for young adult or middle reader books. The award recognizes both writing and illustration in Canadian children’s literature. Guess who I’m up against this time? That’s right, Wallace Edwards and Melanie Watt again. And the other books look amazing too. The winner will apparently be announced on May 6th. The picture book nominees are:
The Aunts Come Marching by Bill Richardson, illustrated by Cynthia Nugent (Raincoast Books)
The Boy From the Sun, written and illustrated by Duncan Weller (Simply Read Books)
Grumpy Bird, written and illustrated by Jeremy Tankard (Scholastic Canada)
The Painted Circus: P.T. Vermin Presents a Mesmerizing Menagerie of Trickery and Illusion Guaranteed to Beguile and Bamboozle the Beholder, written and illustrated by Wallace Edwards (Kids Can Press)
Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend, written and illustrated by Melanie Watt (Kids Can Press)
April 4, 2008
Another award nomination for Grumpy Bird! I’ve been nominated in the Children’s Illustrator of the Year category of Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Awards. I’m up against Melanie Watt and Wallace Edwards again. Do I stand a chance? I doubt it. But we’ll see. We’ll see. The winner will be announced at Book Expo Canada on June 15th.
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