On the Drawing Board ...

Jr. Ranger Day

And now with paint, and it's just in time for Jr. Ranger Day on Monday!

Happy Earth Day sketch

This is a day to remember just how important it is to love our planet! What better place to love the Earth than at our National Parks on this Earth Day!  Celebrate our National Parks   Happy Earth Day!

April Fools' Day

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: 

It's good to be silly at the right moment.  ~Horace

In like a lion...

In like a Lion, out like Lamb.

HMH Fall Catalog 2015

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Fall 2015 Catalog is out!

The first two books of the Bradford Street Buddies series by the amazing Jerdine Nolen and illustrated by yours truly can be found within their pages!  I feel so honored to be in this catalog with so many other fabulous authors and illustrators!  Seriously.  This is so great!

Check out the HMH catalog (Bradford Street Buddies are on page 102, and 103)!!

And now you can pre-order both books!  Tell your friends, tell your family!  :)

Bradford Street Buddies: Block Party Surprise
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Books-A-Million
IndieBound
The Tattered Cover

Bradford Street Buddies: Backyard Campout
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Books-A-Million
IndieBound
The Tattered Cover

Oh Winter.

Look at winter
With winter eyes
As smoke curls from rooftops
To clear cobalt skies.

Breathe in winter
Past winter nose:
The sweet scent of black birch
Where velvet moss grows.
Walk through winter
With winter feet
On crackling ice
Or sloshy wet sleet.

Look at winter
With winter eyes:
The rustling of oak leaves
As spring slowly nears. 

~Douglas Florian