{**UPDATE** Using random.org to generate a random number, the winner is Susan who posted on February 16th. Susan, please contact me at info@wanart.com with your details. Thanks for entering everyone – I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED reading your posts! :D I will be hosting another give-away soon! xo}
I hope everyone had a nice Valentine’s Day (whether [...]

My book We Belong Together was 1 of 150 books recently selected out of 650 entries nationwide to be featured in the Society of Illustrators 2011 Original Art Show, an exhibit which showcases the year’s best children’s books. Here’s a link to more information about the show including the complete list of all the illustrators [...]

A little late on this recap but I just had to share! Right after my first picture book Greetings from Kiwi and Pear came out in 2009 I joined the Society Of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators to absorb as much as I could about the craft of writing/illustrating children’s books and about the publishing [...]

I did a reading of my book Greetings from Kiwi and Pear for a 1st grade class at Nest+m a few weeks ago and got a stack of letters from the kids a week later. The letters are SO freakin’ cute! I’ll post them here every now and then. It’s stuff like this that makes [...]

What a crazy week! I attended the NJ SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) 2010 Conference last weekend in Princeton then flew off to Las Vegas for a few days to check out the Licensing Expo! My head is buzzing with new ideas about books, licensing, and design.
 
Check out my recap of the [...]

There’s a SCBWI New Jersey Chapter conference in a couple of weeks. These conferences are great as we get to take workshops on a variety of book topics as well as sign up for a one-on-one critique on a manuscript with an editor or literary agent! They also get me motivated to work on [...]

I received advance copies of my book yesterday and it looks fantastic! I had asked my publisher for some copies to display in my booth where I will be showing and selling my greeting card and gift products at the New York International Gift Fair which starts this week. Hopefully, I can direct some traffic [...]

Happy (belated) New Year! Things over at Wanart have been pretty busy as we start preparing for the Year of the Ox which starts on January 26. I have also been working on a couple of new book dummies including one about Kiwi and Pear going to outer space! Here are some sketches from the dummy:

Here are scanned pages from the catalog showing the Greetings from Kiwi and Pear book and the Travel Flash Cards!
(Greetings from Kiwi and Pear – left side of spread) “Travel around the world with Kiwi and Pear! – Kiwi and Pear are a pair of monkeys who do everything together, and now they’re off on [...]

Welcome to the Kiwi and Pear blog where you will find the latest news along with information pertaining to the highly-anticipated Kiwi and Pear book “Greetings from Kiwi and Pear” which is coming out in Spring of 2009! Here are some concept sketches I did for the book dummy before taking the book to finish: