THE BLOG

For news, sketches, and reports on work in progress, please visit the blog.

UPCOMING APPEARANCES

These are now also listed on the blog, in the right hand column under the heading “Live and in Person.” Clicking on the event listing will take you to the event website, where available.

PRINTS AVAILABLE

Prints of my work (and prints of work by other talented friends in the field) are available via the Book Maker’s Dozen. The group’s blog is here. Prints can be ordered via the group’s Etsy page, here.

YOUTUBE

You can watch video previews for a few of the books here on YouTube, here.

NEW AND COMING SOON

Published last May was Marty McGuire, by Kate Messner, which I illustrated. Marty McGuire is a warm and funny novel of the third-grade, involving frogs, school plays, and princesses.

Kirkus Reviews says: "Messner gets all the details of third grade right: the social chasm between the girls who want to be like the older kids and the ones who are still little girls, the Mad Minutes for memorizing arithmetic facts, the silly classroom-control devices teachers use and the energy students of this age put into projects like class plays. Floca’s black-and-white sketches are filled with movement and emotion and are frequent enough to help new chapter-book readers keep up with this longer text.Believable and endearing characters in a realistic elementary-school setting will be just the thing for fans of Clementine and Ramona."

The second Marty book, Marty McGuire Digs Worms, comes out in April, 2012.

COMING EVENTUALLY

On the desk now are illustrations for a picture book for Schwartz & Wade and my next book as author/illustrator. Like Moonshot, my next book is a story of daring engineering and long-distance travel in the year of '69. It is behind schedule but not off the tracks. It is gathering steam, and will arrive, someday, from Richard Jackson Books / Atheneum / Simon & Schuster.