Okay…I saw this is already available for preorder on Amazon, so I guess it makes it official now! 😍
Ariel has been my favorite girl since forever and working on a Little Golden Book has been my dream since, well, forever, which makes this a double dream come true! 🧜🏻♀️
“Part of Your World” will be released on April 9 and I can’t wait for you to see it and sing along with it!
It’s so wild to know that the song I’ve been constantly singing since I first saw this movie when I was a little kid has now my drawings to accompany it in an actual Little Golden Book 🥹
Hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did! I don’t know when, I don’t know how, but I know something is starting right now… ;) 🐠 🦀
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The page proofs for my 2nd illustrated book, Everyone starts small, have arrived! It came out so good ya'll
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Very tiny skzoos in tiny business attire who are off to do very important business stuff (in tiny)
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Angela Barrett, illustrator (British, b. 1955) • Beauty and The Beast • Retold by Max Eilenberg • Candlewick Press • 2006
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Today is the release day of the new Little Golden Book that I illustrated! This is a great intro to Greek Mythology for kids and I hope they’ll enjoy looking at the pictures as much as I enjoyed drawing them. I am really proud of this one and with how the illustrations turned out. I can’t wait to hear what people think of it.
Written by John Sazaklis
Illustrated by me
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Looking for kids' books to celebrate Native American Heritage Month? Check out the new display in our Children's Room!
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she lives by the sea, collecting forget-me-nots, making blueberry scones
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It’s the squad! Dorothy Gale, Princess Ozma, and Polychrome.
A quick doodle to work out character designs for a set of kid books I wanna make about the friends of dorothy (yes that is intentional) that talks about loving people who are a little different than your normal kansas girl.
Oz has a lot of openings for that, as (for it’s time) it was very progressive. The author was a staunch feminist and the books reflect that, always featuring strong girls having adventures and ruling. Ozma is canonly trans (tho obviously in a very different but also weirdly NOT way), love is for your friends, kindness to all is what wins.
(He also has some really REALLY bad takes on indigenous people, just…fyi. He was still a rich-ish white guy in the 1800s, alas.)
The first one I’m making is for my beloved Polychrome who can’t focus on anything, can’t handle weird textures in food or clothes, wanders away to dance when she can’t focus, and falls apart when her routine is broken. Ethereal rainbow fairy princesses can sometimes be autistic too.
After that I want to explore chronic illness with Jack Pumpkinhead. While Jack can start out good, as the month goes on his pumpkin starts to rot, and he must take it easy until he can spoon out a new one.
Anyway, all of this cane up because of a behind the bastard episode about how the digital market for kids books is being diluted with cheap AI books that are screwing up kids abilities to learn how to read subtext in a story between what the text says and the image shows. In a normal picture book they come together to provide a complete story….in AI books they’re distantly related non-sense that’s screwing kids up
So I figure….I can’t do worse than that, right?
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My copy of 'Everyone Starts Small', written by Liz Garton Scanlon and published by Candlewick Press, has arrived! I'm excited to share sneak peaks of my 2nd illustrated kids book with ya'll soon. Coming out this March~
Just under 2 months left to pre-order this book! You can do so online at Barnes n Nobles.
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