My first picture book, STEP GENTLY OUT, will be out March 13, 2012 from Candlewick Press. It's a collaboration with novelist and poet Helen Frost. We have two great reviews so far, a starred review in KIRKUS, and a starred and boxed review in Publisher's Weekly. Several book signings are schedu... more

My first picture book, STEP GENTLY OUT, will be out March 13, 2012 from Candlewick Press. It's a collaboration with novelist and poet Helen Frost. We have two great reviews so far, a starred review in KIRKUS, and a starred and boxed review in Publisher's Weekly. Several book signings are scheduled, and a museum exhibition and book signing at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in April. Very exciting. Read the reviews,watch the book trailer & get more info: http://bugdreams.com/sgo/ "One can only hope the present collaboration will be the first of many between nature photographer Lieder and Frost (Hidden, 2011, etc.), one of the most gifted, versatile children's poets writing today, for the synthesis of word and image in this short picture book is so finely wed that the final page turn leaves one begging for more." -- KIRKUS "Working in concert, the words and images achieve a Zenlike calm" -- Publisher's Weekly And I don't take this seriously, but Step Gently Out was mentioned as a promising candidate for the 2013 Newbery Medal on School Library Journal's Mock Newbery Blog: . Crazy, but very cool!