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 […]
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 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 […]
Author Interview With Bo Zaunders
Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Bo Zaunders, photographer, author and illustrator. A couple of weeks ago I did a review on this blog about his storybook app, The Artist, Mortimer. When did you decide to become an author and what impact has this had on your life? Bo Zaunders: From being an art […]
Roxie’s Doors – Kids’ Interactive Activi
Anyone that has been around children know how they get bored very easily. Roxie’s Doors is a kids’ interactive activity IPad App and offers an immediate remedy for bored children. The app reminds me of children’s books that are written with the idea of search and find. The ones I have seen are usually large […]
Puppet Workshop – Creative App for Kids
http://youtu.be/_PI4AbjOqR8 The popularity of apps continues to explode on the horizon of technology. Almost anything you can imagine and then some you can find through an app. A new app for children is being introduced , February 21, 2013. I was privileged to preview it and must say it is one of the cutest and […]
People Are Like Lollipops – Children’s B
A new digital children’s book, People Are Like Lollipops, has recently been made available in IBooks on IPad and on Kindle. The author, Annie Fox, M.Ed, has over thirty years experience writing and teaching educational content for children. She originally wrote and illustrated People Are Like Lollipops in 1971 as an undergraduate at Cornell […]
My First Picture Book – Drabsville
I was very proud to publish my first picture book, Drabsville to say the least, but the fact that the idea came to me over 30 years ago made it an even greater accomplishment. Writing and illustrating a children’s book was something I had always wanted to do. While taking an art education course when […]