It is that time of year when children are getting excited about school being out for the summer and parents are planning their vacations. I remember as a child riding in the car for long periods of time and being very bored. When I viewed Roxie’s A-maze-ing Vacation Adventure app , it brought back memories […]
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Author Interview With Roxie Munro
Recently I did a review on this blog for Roxie Munro’s interactive children’s activity app, Roxie’ Doors and more recently, Roxie’s Amazing Adventure. I am pleased to also have interviewed Roxie and thought everyone would enjoy getting to know a little bit more about this fascinating, talented and award winning, author and illustrator. Questions: […]
Be Creative – Sketch Day 5 & 6
I have been working on the illustrations for my new picture book, Lucy And Pablo’s Garden. Lucy is a very girly ladybug and Pablo is a curious boot-wearing preying mantis. This is one of the opening illustrations for the book.
Be Creative – Sketch Day 4
The last couple of days have taken up with long meetings, but I worked on a couple of sketches developing character for another new book. Right now I am just getting ideas so this might not be the final characters. It is a start and sometimes just taking time to compare the characters and think […]
Be Creative – Sketch Day 3
Today I did a sketch involving circles. My idea behind it was all alike but different expressions with different feelings about the same activity. They are synchronized emoticons (smileys). The characters are one of the ideas I have for an educational Math concept storybook I am working on. I am not sure if this will […]
Be Creative – Sketch Day 2
Here it is my second sketch for Sketch Day May. This a character that I have planned for a picture book. It is based on thoughts I have from several sources including both my thick head of hair and images of me as a young girl and also my granddaughter who loves to draw, paint […]
My First App – Kids Interactive Activity
A great new kids interactive activity app is available in the App store for IPhone and IPad. The name of it is “My First App” and the author, creator is Kristen Heitmann. The app has the distinquished honor of winning the German Computer games award last week. The app is a traditional picture book with […]
Roland’s Stupendous Imagination And The
Since I was a child, I have always been interested in Native American cultures and traditions. My interest has grown over the years and the desire to know more about the culture and the legends. Roland is a young boy with a stupendous imagination that often gets him in trouble when he daydreams at school. […]
Children’s Books – Ashley Howland – Auth
Recently I have had the pleasure of getting to know Ashley Howland from Adelaide, Australia. Our virtual friendship has unfolded in a natural series of steps. We both have two children’s books that have been published recently. In an effort to get to know her better and learn more about her books, I asked her […]
Children’s Books -Drabsville Book Traile
When trying to decide how I would make my first video about my children’s picture book, Drabsville, I decided to focus on the spider which is the pet of the main character, Matt, in the book. The spider was added to the cast of characters late in the development of the book, actually after […]