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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.

YOUTUBE

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

 
           
   
RECENT, NEW, AND FORTHCOMING BOOKS  
       
    Moonshot

Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 was published last year by Richard Jackson Books/Atheneum/Simon & Schuster, and this year was named a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book. More about the book is on the web site here, additional background notes on the book are here, and blog posts about the book are here.

 
   
           
 
    Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring  

Just published is Ballet For Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, a picture book by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan about three American artists and the landmark piece of American dance that they created. Ballet For Martha is published by Neal Porter Books/Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press and has received starred reviews from School Library Journal, The Horn Book Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews. More on the book is on the web site here.

 

 

           
    The Traitors' Gate
Also just published, from Richard Jackson Books/Atheneum/Simon & Schuster, is the paperback edition of Avi's novel The Traitors' Gate, for which I had the chance to do the cover art. You can visit Avi's web site here.  
   
 
         
 

Now, gathering steam but still a ways down the track, is my next book as author/illustrator, coming from Richard Jackson Books/Atheneum/Simon & Schuster. For overt clues to the subject matter, please note the metaphors in the previous sentence. For explicit clues, please see the sketch below, made recently in Utah.

Some other exciting illustration work is underway, too. More about all that to come.

Thanks for your interest in the work!

 
         
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