Newsflash! 3x3 Picture Book Annual No.10 winners announced...

...and three of my dogs from Dogs A-Z made it in!
A big thank you to the judges who gave them the thumbs up.
I guess the old adage about doing, or in my case drawing what you love is true.

M is for Mutt!

Gracias

J is for Japanese Chin

H is for Havanese

Dogs A-Z (to be continued...)

Children's Book Illustration

child looking bored... wait a minute!

that would be impossible since he's reading Dolphin's Big Leap!
(in english, not arabic).

bedtime kiss for little fish

just got a note from Lorie Ann Grover, the lovely author of Bedtime Kiss for Little Fish telling me that she's seen samples and it looks great! a quick google search later and it looks like it's available for pre-order on amazon, barnes and noble, etc...

how we got there

i thought it would be interesting to post pictures of my initial sketches for the book along with the final versions.
as you can see, my original vision was a little "darker". the wonderfully patient and kind team at Scholastic helped to guide me out of the dark and into technicolor cute.

pages from my new kids book - out july '09

i've been reviewed!

how awesome is this?
love rachel c.'s drawing.
nice work!

and in case you wondered what the book would look like in Arabic...
http://www.araboh.com/view_details.php?id=8