Happy Birthday America!! And to my sister, Jennifer, and my editor, Tanya, and the head of SCBWI, Stephen. It's a popu...

Every morning here at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, I go walking the campus with fellow Professors. And every day we swing throug...

Did your child complain about going to school this morning? Maybe you should show them this post at Daily Dawdle: In Some Parts of the Worl...

That are hard to believe really exist. Like this image of the Hitachi Seaside Park in Japan by nipomen2 ... CLICK HERE to see the entire ...

Writing a novel, a love story by Libba Bray (author of The Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, Beauty Queens, and The Diviners ). It's ...

One of the perks of teaching at Hollins is each of the instructors is giving a workshop on their technique. I gave two days on Photoshop and...

Here's our crew of folks in the program this year: Click the image to see it larger in a new window.      From the left is Cecilia Wyl...

     I drew this lofty gator on a thank-you note for a friend a while back. She was from Louisiana, so it only seemed fitting I...

is a new exhibit in the New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building curated by Leonard Marcus. As one of the strongest prop...

Oh - I want!!! This awesome bird's nest is by California artist Jayson Fann. CLICK HERE to go see more photos of this awesome creation ...

This will be an offbeat documentary about humor, art and the genius of the New Yorker cartoon. I'd want to watch it! Thanks to SwissM...

This one is featured in PW Shelftalker by Elizabeth Bluemle (owner of the Flying Pig bookstore in Vermont): Illustrators Give the Best Studi...

Today, I invited Gail Karwoski to drop by and tell us about her newest title, which I read when it was still a work-in-progress and I think...

So the last three days have been a whirlwind of unpacking, setting up classes, hooking up computers, and decorating. Or as Ashley Wolff lik...

     Here's another of the former stamps which I'm now able to share with you as a coloring page. You like her?       ...