ABIGAIL SPELLS has been named to the Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choice list. Hurray! CCBC Choices is the annual best-of-the-year li...

Happy first day of school! This week I am taking a short break from painting Disappearing Desmond to focus on Abigail Spells , since it is ...

This week 293 spellers will go to the Scripps National Bee in Washington D.C.! If you've seen the movies Spellbound or Akeelah and the...

This spring has been the busiest I've had in a very long time; two books came out within a month of eachother, I'm planning my weddi...

Last week Abigail made her debut in bookstores, hurray! I am so proud of this book, and so excited that kids will be able to read it at last...

This spring I am very excited to see the publication of two books a long time in the making, What Can You Do with an Old Red Shoe? and Abig...

As I mentioned under the question of the week , a week ago today I handed in the art for Abigail, yippee! This was a really fun project to w...

The art for my book Abigail Spells (see paintings from it here and here ) is due two weeks from today, so I am feverishly going back over m...

Continued from this post last week, here are the final stages of Abigail's spelling bee close-up.... does she look frozen in fear?

Still painting away on the illustrations for Abigail Spells, here is another preview of one of the paintings coming together... This is the ...

No time for a long post today as I'm busy painting Abigail Spells . Here is a recent finish:

After two lovely weeks in Hawaii (see below- you can tell I'm thinking hard about painting, right?), I am at last finishing this post (y...

As some of you might remember from this post, I've been working on the jacket image for my new book Abigail Spells. After some consider...

A short post today- I am busy working on the paintings for my new book Abigail Spells . Here is a sample:

Sorry for the short post today, somehow I managed to schedule three outings in one day- this morning I had a school visit in Arlington, in a...

As some of you may remember from this post, I've been working on a picture book about a bird named Abigail who enters a spelling bee. F...