Monsters

One of a set of 6 ‘classic’ monster faces I created. Not sure what to do with them. T-shirts?

All the art in this series are based on recollections of some of my favorite monsters.

Beware what lurks behind this door!

A door hanger every kid needs when they check this out of the library!

Photo below is the front and back.

A Very Witchy Spelling Bee

With Martha out and about and children all over the land heading her warning about green beans, I may as well talk about my next book. A Very Witchy Spelling Bee will be out in late July or August…I think.  It’s about a young witch and an old witch. It’s about casting SPELLS and spelling correctly. All the better to celebrate Autumn, the return to school and the return of  spelling tests. And boy, do I remember some spelling tests in third grade. I was, and still am, a very good creative speller. But the teachers never graded on creativity on a spelling test. I’ll share some of my spelling test stories including my one PERFECT score and what unfolded after that! I’m still recovering…

Below, Our hero Cordelia faces Beulah Divine in the final round…What will happen next?

Wait until July!

What are you doing down there?

Third in a series of unknown numbers!

A page here, a page there…

Here’s two disparate pages from a project that just may never see the light of day. It may live only on my computer. When I speak at events about writing and drawing I often explain how most of what I do never sells. There is a lot of ‘other stuff’ I don’t finish or no one wants to publish. This is part of that other stuff.

What’s this blog for…

No. I don’t see this blog as being mainly about self promotion, yet here I am self promoting. But, if I don’t who will!?

The Horn Book recently recommended Earthling! in an article on graphic novels for kids. Here’s what they had to say:

Gr. 4-6 In this sic-fi graphic novel, Bud gets on the wrong bus and ends up at Cosmos Academy, an intergalactic school whose students fear Earthlings. With the help of new friends Gort, Bud devises a plan to return home before the aliens figure out who he is. Action and humor (especially in the characters facial expressions) are successfully captured in bright cartoon panels.

How Martha Signs book in Portland!

I will be reading and signing copies of my newest picture book, How Martha Saved Her Family from Green Beans at the entirely appropriately named, Green Bean books in Portland, Oregon on Saturday, May 4th. Stop by around 2 to join in the fun. Drop in about 1:45 to see me sweating and worrying that I forgot what I was going to say.

Green beans are welcome as long as they behave. I’ll read, draw some beans and answer questions about green beans. But I won’t pick any green beans up. They bite.