A free kid's guide to visiting museums and making art inspired by my new book IZZY PAINTS. Click file below to download.   IZZY PAINTS KID'S GUIDE A Kid's Guide to Visiting Museums and Making Art IZZY PAINTS KID'S GUIDE.pdf Adobe Acrobat Document 2.0 MB Download ..read more

As Gregor awoke one morning he found himself transformed ..read more

I'm happy to share the news that IZZY PAINTS has been selected to be in the 2022 Original Art Exhibition at the Society of Illustrators ..read more

Check out this special episode of Ready Set Draw! where we play the “How to make art when you don’t know what to make game”, inspired by my new book IZZY PAINTS ..read more

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I'm honored to share the news that IZZY PAINTS has been chosen as a Gold Standard Selection but the Junior Library Guild ..read more

Cashew, Jon Snow, Jojo, and Edie. The real life kitties that inspired the story. Tiny Kitty, Big City, is available today. Please support your local indie ..read more

Thank you School Library Journal for such a stellar review of Tiny Kitty, Big City. The book will be available on March 2, but you can pre-order copies now. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062414427 ..read more

Festival celebrates the drawing power of children's books John Parra's illustration of a young Frida Kahlo is from the book "Frida Kahlo and her Animalitos." Credit: John Parra  PRINT SHARE  When Gus, the hero of the children’s story “Gus and the Greatest Catch of All,” launches his fishing boat in search of a great catch, he finds, instead, empathy, kindness and ..read more

'Picture This' exhibit celebrates art of children's books No youngster himself, The New Yorker magazine cartoonist William Steig created his most beloved drawings at 83 years of age — in a 1990 children’s picture book called “Shrek!” The success of his anti-fairy tale about an amiable swamp-dwelling green ogre had largely to do with the fact that he never really grew up, the illustrator once admitted, holding onto a world view that was as playful as it was compassionate. That view is on ..read more