I'm hosting an open studio on Sat 3/29 to celebrate the release of my book BEANSPROUT - I hope you can stop by!

Drop in anytime from 2-4pm - we'll have sketches & art from BEANSPROUT, plus an art activity, free snacks & books for sale from @whitelambooks.bsky.social

Hope to see you there!

Let’s make books handout for kids, detailing various roles in making books; author, illustrator, editor, designer, marketing/publicity, librarians/booksellers/teachers and finally readers.

Two worksheets, “be a writer” with a writing mad lib, and “be an illustrator” with some drawing prompts.

Two more worksheets, “be an editor” with editorial marks to practice on some editable sentences, and “be a cover designer” with four books needing covers.

Two final handouts: “be a librarian, bookseller or teacher” with six kids and six books to match, and “be a reader” with preferences in genre and types of books to narrow your reading preferences to help find more books to enjoy.

Here is a handout I made for my kid’s class last week, when I went in to talk to them about making books. I Frankensteined together a bunch of art I already had to make it, and filled other stuff in. But it was a big hit, so I’m sharing it here in case you know any kids interested in making books!

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The last few weeks have been pretty hard, but at least I can still draw this family of happy chickens.

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Happy to be able to announce the sale of my book THE MOST PERFECT BOX OF ART SUPPLIES (although it doesn't come out til 2027, it will be the 10th published book that I've written & illustrated!). Many thanks to my agent, Emily Mitchell & @candlewickpress.bsky.social.

A little bit about how I made the illustrations for my newest book, BEANSPROUT, out March 11th from @charlesbridge.bsky.social (but available for pre-order now!)
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