A few months ago I was surfing on the internet and came across a children’s book that caught my eye my eye immediately with its eye-catching cover. The children’s book – Belle’s Wings, by author, MJ Gillot completely captivated me. I immediately contacted the author and illustrator, M.J. Gillot to ask if I could interview […]
Children’s Book Review -A Birthday Clown
Clowns are fun and colorful. Archer wants a clown to attend his 5-year-old birthday party but his Mom has different ideas. she thinks clowns are scary and say “no”. Archer is determined to change her mind. Kathy Mashburn is the author of this children’s book that explores the feelings of both adults and children on […]
Free Kids Art and Reading Club – Day 2
I hope everyone had a good time visiting the MOMA interactive online art gallery on Day 1. There are a lot of fun things to do while viewing the animated version of the MOMA art gallery in New York City. Also I hope you will draw your self portrait (a picture of yourself) and post […]
Kids’ Art And Reading Club – Summer Lear
It is that time of the year when school is out and children are overly excited about being out of school for the summer. The kids are excited but most parents start scrambling after the first one or two weeks to find activities to keep them busy. Most parents realize that if the kids are […]
Kids’ App Review – Roxie’s A-maze-ing Va
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 […]
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 […]
The Artist Mortimer, Interactive Childre...
Simple, uncluttered and amusing are the three words that come to mind in review of Bo Zaunder’s Interactive storybook app, The Artist, Mortimer. It is a story of an artist and how he loves to paint more than anything else in the world and a problem that he has to overcome to be able to […]
Southern Breeze Illustrators Sketchbook ...
On March 9, 2013, we had our second Sketchbook event for Southern Breeze, SCBWI illustrators to the historic Fox Theatre in downtown Atlanta, Ga. Being a native of Atlanta ,I have many memories of going there as a child. It has always been a place of wonder and magic to me and I have enjoyed sharing it […]