HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Merry Christmas!

Drawing on Imagination: An SCBWI Show

Eleven children's book illustrators will have their work on display from December 21 through January 31 at the Multnomah County Library central branch.

I will be showing some of the sets and characters from my first book, The House That Mouse Built.

Come to the opening reception TOMORROW from 12:00 - 2:00 in the Collins Gallery on the 3rd floor and say Hello!  See details

reindeer

card game

potato latkes

Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy your roast walnut!

Baby buggies

                                 

There's a nice article about Mouseland in the December issue of The Dolls' House Magazine, a publication out of England.  Click here to read it!

naughty

Grace Darling

This is a reshoot of an older scene.  Grace Darling, the daughter of a lighthouse keeper, became a celebrity in Victorian England for rowing out in a storm with her father to save the victims of a shipwreck.

runaway

Trick or treat!

This diorama is at Green Bean Books all this month  http://www.greenbeanbookspdx.com/

outing

a little animation

grandbaby

Sam

my genius son, Sam Alden

conversation

harvest time

dishes

proposal

reunion

mush

paperdolls

weeds

time to scrub the deck

old friend

travellers

Bathing beauty

introverts

jump rope

Madam M

Easter egg

pizza!

earthworm

mouse maker

    I haven't posted in awhile because I've been busy finishing up my next mouse book.

Valentine

small mouse, big city

Where I went last week

characters

Here are a few characters I made for my new book...nearly ready for their close-ups!

dance