Back in July 2002, my company relocated us from Boston to New York (us as in the Children's Division, Bulfinch Press, International, and...

The Society of Illustrators show is happening at the end of next month. It's the original art show which displays what the judges think ...

Alvina has written an interesting post about race on her personal blog which I wouldn't want Blue Rose Girl readers to miss. Being a ...

Black Beauty grows old (and Ginger dies!); Mattie never is nice to Wanda Petronski, and joins the other girls in egging her on about her “hu...

So I was checking my website stats as I do on occasion and saw one hit for "the other website." I though, "What on earth is t...

What kind of person becomes an author/illustrator? Reading everyone's responses about the question of the week last week (what distracts...

Children’s books ooze with themes of hope. No matter how dreary or depressing the subject matter, it’s a seemingly unbreakable rule that the...

Our question of the week is: What outside influences do you use to keep yourselves focused? This question will be answered throughout the we...

I have a booksigning tomorrow... er...today (it's going on 3am) and I might not be able to post later, so I'll post before bed. this...

Many months ago I painted the last painting of a picture book, got on the train and dropped it on a white desk in the lobby of a New York pu...

I wanted to post a comment about the - how do you promote yourself - question a while back, but never did. This sat I'm doing a signing ...

I've been thinking in analogies lately. This week, running has been on my mind, because I'm running in the NYC half marathon on Sund...

This isn't really children's book related, except that it's unsettling when things we've always accepted as facts are change...

Last week, I sent in a ms. for a children’s book – my name won’t be on it, and I’m not getting royalties, and the publisher probably wouldn’...

Over the years, one of the comments I often get about my work is that it is quiet. It is an interesting label to ponder, particularly becaus...

As I mentioned earlier, after my whining about my Amazon rankings, I’ve begun to feel twinges of concern. It's not that I'm not prou...

Our question of the week is: What distracts you the most? Answers to be given throughout the week so keep checking back (and feel free to c...

Anna was the second Blue Rose Girl I met. As she wrote already, she, Grace and I were in a children's book class together at RISD. I was...

The second book I was planning to write about is Hippo! No, Rhino by Jeff Newman, which is, like, one of my favorite picture books EVER, and...

Our Fall list is starting to come out already, and I've been meaning to write about two of my summer books. I'll try to do one tonig...