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Ocean Soup!

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This is it! The final cover proof for Ocean Soup arrived from Charlesbridge this week! Steve Swinburne's tide pool poems are hilarious, but you'll have to wait until Spring '10 to read them. In the mean time, tide pooling is a fantastic way to explore the intertidal zones and the hardy critters that reside there. A great website for kids to "See into the Sea" is at www.tidalzone.org!

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"Soup That Bites!" from Ocean Soup, Tide Pool Poems (Charlesbridge, Spring 2010)

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This is an example of the small landscapes I've been doing lately. The morning marine layer across LA can be gloomy but it sure is pretty.
Pencil on Aristico hot press. 4" square

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Love Letter

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4 color letterpress print from the series "Love Song."
You can see the rest of the series at http://letterpresshabitat.blogspot.com. Then, scratch a note to a friend who is far away.

Ocean Soup

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I'm almost finished painting a new picture book for Charlesbridge called Ocean Soup,Tide Pool Poems by Steve Swinburne. Here's a sneak peak of the finished spread for the poem "Hairy Doris" about a lovely shell-less gastropod. How odd!

Concrete Verse Menagerie

Tootguy Sunday, January 11, from 12:00p.m. - 2:00p.m. I'll be doing a workshop for 8-12 years old.

We'll combine concrete poetry with paper models to create a zoo unlike any other.

This is an 826LA workshop and takes place at the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum.

Join us!

[UPDATE: I want to thank the FANTABULOUS kids who attended todays worksop! You are AWESOME! You made the talkiest, scariest, waddliest, crawliest, funniest, prettiest, wordiest managerie ever!]

Welcome To Woody's Backyard

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Winter Chores

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Fe Fi Fo Fum!

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Boo!

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Late: Illustration Friday

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Late...and dark...and stormy.

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I've added a new set of sketches to my portfolio at Flickr.com. Most of the images are drawn from life but occacionally I run across an interesting face like the one posted here of mid-century book and font designer Werner Hebhuhn. Although he looks like a character from Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands, he's the designer of a cheerful Eisenhauer era Googie-style font called Amper Sans.

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 'Possum woke up in a tree again!

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If you plan to be at the ALA this weekend, stop by and say hello. I'll be signing copies of Wiggle and Waggle from 10-11a.m. Sunday in the Charlesbridge booth 2741

Good news!

Coming in 2010 from Charlesbridge is PUMPKIN PATCH, a picture book about two little pigs who cause a mess of trouble on a farm, which I co-authored and will illustrate.
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Worry: Illustration Friday

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Wiggle and Waggle are winners!

Wiggle and Waggle has been named one of the Bank Street College of Education "Best Books of the Year"!Peterson_ww_3


Spring!

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Choose: Illustration Friday

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Portfolio

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Publishing

  • I am represented by Jennifer Rofe (Jaeger) of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. She can be reached at 831-422-5925 or jennifer@andreabrownlit.com

What's up?

  • Coming in 2010 from Charlesbridge is PUMPKIN PATCH, a picture book about two little pigs who cause a mess of trouble on a farm, which I co-authored and will illustrate.
  • "Wiggle and Waggle" has been named one of the Bank Street College of Education "Best Books of the Year"!
  • Coming Soon! 'Ocean Soup: A Book of Tide Pool Poems' by Steve Swinburne. Published by Charlesbridge
  • 'Wiggle and Waggle' has been named A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book!