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Philadelphia Book Festival, this weekend!
This Saturday and Sunday is the Philadelphia Book Festival at the Main Library. I'll apparently be an "event" at the festival itself on Saturday and I hope you can make it over to see whatever it is...
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Beastly Rhymes
Today is the official release date for Beastly Rhymes, a book I illustrated last year. It's written by Judy Sierra and is all creepy monster poems about giant squids, haunted zoos, carnivorous...
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One Beastly Beast in Japan
A mysterious box from my childrens book agent arrived yesterday, filled with copies of One Beastly Beast, the book I illustrated in 2006, written by Garth Nix. The odd thing was that this is the...
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I'm a T. Rex! sketches
Back in February I was in the middle of reading Leonard Marcus' book Golden Legacy, How Golden Books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became An American Icon Along the Way when I...
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drawing instruction
My sister found these books today at a yard sale. She says she got them because she thought maybe I could use the help. Maybe she's right. In any case I love these books. The best of all, of course, is...
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I'm a T.Rex Golden Book
Well it's out, and now I can safely say that when I retire as an illustrator and spend my days on the golf links in Boca Raton, I will have illustrated a Little Golden Book. I've loved Little Golden...
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Potato Chip Science
Workman just published a new activity kit called Potato Chip Science, for which I drew the cover illustration. If you're looking at the picture thinking "well Brian, your going insane, for that is not...
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Everything Goes is coming…
I came in to work this nice Monday morning and was fairly immediately greeted by the UPS truck outside. He gave me a package that I've been anxiously awaiting for several years now. Everything Goes is...
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Frank Einstein moves in
The mail-bot at the postal office done good today. One of the best days is the day where a real live copy of the book you've been going crazy working on (a year or six months ago) finally appears, and...
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