How Martha Saved her Parents from Green Beans
Dial Books
Author: David LaRochelle. Illustrator: Mark Fearing. Available April, 2013.
My early review: “Fantastic! I’ve never read or seen a better book about green beans.”
Chronicle Books. July 2012
Earthling! is a graphic novel I wrote and drew. It’s 250 pages of Sci-fi, all ages, funky-alien fun.
It took a few years but the book is done, and will be released from Chronicle Books in July of 2012. You can read the first two chapters on the Chronicle Books Website! Just click here.
You can order a copy from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Powell’c city of books. Why stop with just one? Order a few.
David Kamp- The New York Times
“A high-octane space adventure starring a lovable hero kids will quickly relate to. Earthling! is the perfect book for young readers!”
—Jarrett J. Krosoczka, creator of the bestselling Lunch Lady series
Here’s an Earthling! review from August 2012 at Stacked.org.
The Book That Eats People
Tricycle Press/Random House
The 2011-2012 Picture Book of the Year in North Carolina!
Author: John Perry. Illustrated by: Mark Fearing
From an Amazon Review: “What a great book! My daughter had me read
it to her so many times she has it memorized.”
The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot
Schwartz and Wade Books/ Random House
Author: Margaret McNamara. Illustrated by: Mark Fearing
Will be released Sept. 27th, 2011.
Review excerpt from Amazon: “Young Readers and space enthusiasts…will enjoy this fun romp through our solar system. The text is quite clever and the illustrations are a riot.”
So You Want To Catch Bigfoot
Candlewick Press
Author: Jamie Michalak. Illustrated by: Mark Fearing
A tie in book to the Judy Moody universe. Related to the feature film released in 2011.
Cenozoic
OPP Press
Written and drawn by: Mark Fearing
A comic book published by OPP in 2004. It was a small press release and is hard to find.
Review excerpt from Ain’t It Cool News; “Fans of Sergio Aragones’ Groo the Wanderer will be pleased with this one…
I found myself laughing out loud at the cavemen who talk as if they were living in modern times.”
Good Dog Publishing
Where’s There’s Smoke, There’s Marshmellows.
iPad ‘read along’ comic.
Written and drawn by: Mark Fearing
Featuring music and sound effects. The character voices
were done by Tom Kenny. (The voice of Spongebob!)
Review from the iTunes store: “Simple but elegant interface with lovely characters.”
Hi Mark, my brother has fallen in love with an earlier illustration of yours called “Volcano Man”, and was wondering if there is a book with a story to accompany it? Thank you, Lolly x
I’m always happy to hear when someone responds to a piece. There is a story. I’ve revised it several times over the past 4 years. It’s a bit of a hybrid, part story book, part fairy tale and I’ve been told, totally unpublishable in this day and age. It’s not a picture book and the current market for picture books is fairly conservative and there is a modern expectation for what an illustrated book for kids will be like. I understand that and I do realize that Volcano Man is a throw back in some ways to a more traditional fairy tale or adventure story. I’ve thought about putting it online. I have perhaps half the art work in sketch form and 2 or 3 development pieces for it. I’ll post some on this blog in the future.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for reading to the students at BTES today. Their teacher said they talked about it the rest of the day. Not many people would have done what you have for our students. Can’t wait until July when we can order Earthling! Thanks once again, you are a celeb at our school:)
Hi Mark,
Your book definitely made an impression (though thankfully not teeth impressions!) on him 
I’m a children’s librarian in Bermuda and I’ve just stumbled onto your great blog. I thought you’d be interested to know that one of our young patrons checked out “The Book That Eats People” recently, and then came back with his mother to return it to us the very next day. She explained that he was (rightly of course!) concerned for his little sister and made sure to stack it underneath several very heavy books to prevent it from snacking on any family members in the night
It’s nice to hear that the little boy was so concerned for his sister! I know it can be a bit scary for some kids, but they also seem to really enjoy it. John Perry is the wonderful author of that book and I enjoyed illustrating every funky page of it. Thanks so much for dropping me a note!
We’ve got a lot of kids that enjoy it immensely as well. But I think it’s something for a kid to have a visceral response to a book like that – it means it’s really hitting the right notes in his imagination. I have no doubt that with an imagination that vivid that one day he’ll be writing his own stories
I agree. I think for most kids the response is one of “What if…”. And that is a very powerful thought process. That book acts as a jumping off point for a child. They have to make some decisions about how serious the story is. And it promotes not only creative thinking but constructive thinking. Some classic dialectic that would make Socrates proud. IF this book is really able to eat people…And I think they pretty quickly arrive that it is not possible, but it’s FUN to pretend!