Getting art back from the printer feels a bit like seeing a loved one again after a long time away. Only eight more months until pub day! (Patience is a virtue, especially when making books!)
EARTH: ONE PLANET’S EPIC STORY (Abrams) is available for preorder and will be out November 10, 2026. 📚💕
Monday driveabout. You can see my favorite city in the world, teeny-tiny on the horizon. 💙🍎
Thank you!
Time for a cover reveal! Very happy to share that EARTH: ONE PLANET’S EPIC STORY will be out November 10th, 2026!
I’m still fascinated to think about the length of time this planet has existed. We humans are lucky to call it home! 🌏🌍🌎
(Available for preorder now.) 📚💕
#kidlit #abramskids #earth
Everyone has the right to bear witness.
#sketchbook #drawing #sentineltree
A bird for these days.
#illustration #kidlitart #bird #pencil #sketch
Hard to see due to the angle of the sun, but my daughter snapped this pic of a Bald Eagle yesterday in my backyard!! What a magnificent creature. ♥️🦅
This country has a long history of disparaging the newest immigrants. I wish more descendants of the earlier ones remembered that.
Book spread from A PLACE CALLED AMERICA (Abrams, 2023).
#kidlit #kidlitart #bookswithmaps
Sunday sketchbook scribble.
Happy to be at the printer’s proofs stage for EARTH: ONE PLANET’S EPIC STORY! Not sure of the exact pub date yet, but it is soon. (Relatively speaking, in publishing time!!) 🌎🌍🌏🙂
#kidlit #nonfictionforkids #earthoneplanetsepicstory
Flight path.
#illustration #kidlitart #sketch #birds
A little atmospheric detail.
#illustration #kidlitart #sky
If you haven’t been watching Ken Burns’s The American Revolution on PBS this week I highly recommend it. History is layered, and complex, and there’s always more to learn. I especially enjoyed last night’s episode about New York!
Spread from MANHATTAN: Mapping the Story of an Island (Abrams, 2019).
Mood! 🪶
#illustration #kidlitart #sketch
Hooray for waves! 💙🌊
Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day today and every day.
From MANHATTAN: Mapping the Story of an Island (Abrams, 2019).
#mapmonday #illustration #kidlitart #indigenouspeoplesday
She’s gorgeous!
My reading companion. (Also, happy for wool sock season!)
#saturday #studiocat #authorlife #illustratorlife #autumn
Happy #MapMonday! Here’s my favorite island on the planet from way back in time. Look familiar?
From MANHATTAN: MAPPING THE STORY OF AN ISLAND (Abrams, 2019).
#illustration #kidlitart #maps #illustratedmaps #manhattan #iheartnyc
The art is en route to the publisher! It’s always hard for me to let it go. This book was especially intense, and it was so very satisfying to get lost in the making. (Random studio cat agrees.)
EARTH: One Planet’s Epic Story coming soon with @abramskids. Yay! 🌎🌍🌏
#kidlitart #earth
😂♥️
Final final touches! Though the art is never *truly* done. Ah well.
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Almost done. 🙂
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Blues. 🌎🌍🌏
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We had a visitor tonight. 🕊️
Good day to float in a pond.☀️☁️💙
Thank you, Shirley! 💕
Behind-the-scenes art-in-progress. 🌎🌍🌏
#illustration #kidlitart #earth
Fly away!
#illustration #kidlitart #workinprogress #earth
BIG bug.
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