Children are inspired to read and write when they meet the author and illustrators of the books that they read! Why are author-illustrator school and library visit so important? Children [...]
Celebrating books at the Hawaiian Book and Music Festival This free event brings together booksellers, publishers, musicians, actors, authors and illustrators. Not to mention the food of Hawaii! Scbwi [...]
This is the watercolor cover that I created for the Sweet Fairy Tales Book. I took something from everyone’s cake and added it into the illustration. I was going for [...]
I was honored to create a cake for the Texas Sweethearts and Scoundrels. It was raffled off at the Texas Library Associations annual conference. It was created using all 60 published [...]
Highlights from Highlights Picture book boot camp faculty Denise Fleming, Pat Cummings, Peter Brown and Greg Pizzoli DAY 1 Arrival and Tour The Barn Touring the Highlights Magazine Offices Dino! Carolyn Flores loves her dinos! After an [...]
I wanted to share with you my process of the Pied piper cake that I did recently. I will post some photos here, but would appreciate you checking out the Kidlit [...]
CHICKEN LICKEN I’ve been busy painting an image for the Tomie dePaola Illustration Competition through the SCBWI. He picks an excerpt from a children’s book story and illustrators from all over [...]
I am the Illustrator Coordinator for the the Southwest Texas society of children’s book writers and illustrators. We held a sketch crawl at the San Antonio Zoo. We spent the morning [...]
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators South West Texas Conference 2011 I wanted to share a bit of information from the SCBWI-SWTX (society of children book writers and [...]