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Looking for some signed Elephant and Piggie art?Well, then Northampton's Forbes Library has a great deal for you. They're selling giant 18" x 24" Read with Friends posters featuring Elephant and Piggie reading all of their favorite local authors, authors you may have heard of like pals Norton Juster, Holly Black, JJK, Eric Carle, Patricia MacLauchlan and more! The posters are signed by me for

Here's a nice interview with me from Follett that covers how I work, why I work, what I'm working on, and my background in sketch comedy.If you're in the mood for interviews, here are a bunch of extraneous quotes from animation folk about making TV including Craig McCracken, Doug TenNapel, Butch Hartman, & myself given during interviews with animator/author/pal Dave Levy for his books on making

If you live in the Northampton Mass area, then you know how cool the Forbes Library is. This year, the library needs your help renovating the Children's Area, which is over due for a fixin'.Late spring, I'll be hosting a benefit cartoonapalooza evening of animation featuring animated versions of my books, plus classic Sesame Street and Nickelodeon animated shorts.We're also releasing a limited

January will be a short month for appearances, but come February I'll be traveling across the country to introduce young readers to Cat the Cat and reading a new Elephant and Piggie book. The tour will include me riding in Tucks on the Saturday before Mardi Gras in my hometown of New Orleans and throwing special, exclusive Elephant and Piggie Kazoos! Stay tuned for details later in the week.

Less than a week is left in Scholastic's Pigeon Drawing Contest!Indianapolis' JOIN THE PIGEON CROWD, READ ALOUD initiative ends November 30th! Get reading! Get LOUD!But, you still have a few months to catch the fabulous 20th Annual Illustration Show at R. Michaelson Gallery in Northampton, MA!And if you're near Belmont, MA tomorrow you can see a screening of the animated Don't Let the Pigeon

If you're in NYC on Thursday Nov 12 at 7 PM and are looking for a new Calendar and some cartoons, then I've got good news for you. The fine folks at ASIFA-East (the society of animators) are unveiling their new benefit calendar, featuring 12 months of cartoons and drawings by leading East Coast animators (I got to do December).Additionally, they'll be screening contributors films, including this

Speaking of old films, my last personal film was produced a decade ago (although it should probably be called a personnel film as it used 30+ NYC animators), produced while making the pilot for Sheep in the Big City. The deal was I gave each animator pal two drawings; first the beastie to be eaten, next the beastie to do the eating. Then, I let 'em rip.It was great fun being an animator in the

Is 15 years old this, uh, year. Not quite sure when I started on this one, but I think it was the fall.This short was animated back when cartoons had to be shot on film and inked and painted by hand, I wrote and drew this short just as I was about to start making cartoons for Sesame Street. (Sorry for the ad before the film).Another Bad Day for Philip JenkinsAtom.com: Funny Videos | Animation |

The old mailbag this week had a brand-spanking new copy of pal David Levy's new book Animation Development, a tome aimed at animators and cartoonists interested in getting their own series. David is a teacher, animator, director, and the President of NYC's society of animators, so he knows his stuff. Consequently, the book is chocked full with info and insights from TV animation creators like

In addition to doing rockin' animation for me over the years like this and this and this...Pete does this when he goes to Egypt:Dude!Pete's currently animating The Pigeon Finds a Hotdog! for release next year.

Weston Woods' Paul Gagne sits down with Booklist to talk audio books, animated recordings and such. The interview touches on Paul's annual tradition of recording one of my books for audio book and animation.This year's record (of The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!) utilized the voices of myself and my daughter, Trixie. This is the Trixter's 3rd animated film; she records every other year as it turns

Thanks to you, Elephant and Piggie's Elephants Cannot Dance! is still on the New York Times Bestseller list for it's 7th week at #6. Oh, and here's a recent nice review and Elephant and Piggie have been named "summertime boredom busters".Huzzah! That's so cool, it's worth dancing about!If you follow the Pigeon's Tweets, you know that this week was the recording for the animated "The Pigeon

It seems someone has gathered all of the mentions of Shrimpola Cola in my late, unlamented animated series, Sheep in the Big City, and put them together.With the distance of years (and the refusal of CN to release the stuff on DVD) I'd forgotten just how insane that show was.*And this stuff wasn't the weirdest part of the show (yikes).Nor was this:Or this:*Not that I regret it; being a rapping

As part of sneak peek week, here's a clip from the animated short Knuffle Bunny Too, available for schools and libraries from Weston Woods. This clip details the dark side of the how to pronounce "Knuffle" debate.The DVD also includes a short interview with me about the Knuffle Books.Enjoy!

Today is the big premier of the animated versions of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny Too, and the live-action documentary Getting To Know Mo at the Eric Carle Museum.For those of you who can't make it to the show, here's a preview clip of the end credits of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Yup, that's me as the Pigeon improving with National Ambassador for Children's

About 4 years ago I retired from TV animation... Or so I thought.About a year or so ago I got a call from Mitch Hurwitz, which is cool because I like to watch his show, Arrested Development. Turns out we have a few things in common besides both having had a TV show suddenly canceled. Turns out Mitch likes Knuffle Bunny. Well, so do IWell, before I know it my new pal has asked me to make some

The Pigeon is 6 years old today. No (April) foolin'.Thanks to you, he's still around desperate to drive a bus, get a puppy, have a hot dog by himself, and stay up all night! To celebrate his first publication in 2003, here's a link to info about the new animated cartoon based on Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! starring myself and Jon Scieszka as the Bus Driver. Mo' info to come!

One of the things that made my cartoon sketch show Sheep in the Big City fun was the 30 second appearances of the Ranting Swede at the end of each episode.I flatter myself to think that the Ranting Swede’s format was unique in TV cartoon production. We would give actor Kevin Seal a loose idea (“coffee tables”) and let him go off for as long as he could. We’d edit the track and give it to a

As a kids book maker, I have no place suggesting how you vote, but I do ask that you go to the polls. And on Nov. 5th, please be gracious. No gloating. No cursing. Your kids and your country are watching to see what you are really made of. If, somehow you are still undecided, how about this for a write in? Yup, that's indi-funky kids store Hicklebees. Oh, and you can celebrate the victory

The next two weeks will involve setting up my new studio and a bit of travel. I'll be in back Brooklyn for the Bookfest, visiting some schools in NY state, visiting Jake (the winner of the Pigeon Wants a... Contest) and his classmates in Ohio and speaking at the Open Book Fest in Indiana (you can check out my fall schedule here.) On Sunday, Sept. 21, drop on by the Jackson Heights Film Festival

Projects are working well so far, and 2009 should have a fun crop of books, including a fun pop-out book that’s progressing nicely. The next month includes a recording session for an animated short based on Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! with yours truly as the Pigeon. I’m happy to announce that we’ve cast pal Jon Scieszka as the Bus Driver after our first couple of choices said ‘no’.

The animated Knuffle Bunny (and Sheep in the Big City’s Miss Pretty Hair Doll) are screening this week at the Newport Film Festival in Rhode Island. Drop on by if you get a chance, looks like a good line up.

Thanks to the ASIFA-East Members for giving the animated Leonardo the Terrible Monster a craft award for writing. There were some great cartoons screened last night, and it was nice to see some old friends. Viva cartoons!

Busy days, so I'll turn it over to ASIFA-East President Dave Levy for a note about kids animation in New York. You can check out the animated Leonardo the Terrible Monster at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this weekend.

Knuffle Bunny Too reappears on the New York Times Bestseller list (at #10 for its 15th week). I’ll be speaking and signing in Athens, GA. On the weekend (March 1 +2), the New York International Children’s Film Festival will screen the animated version of Knuffle Bunny (in the Shorts for Tots section) and Sheep in the Big City’s Miss Pretty Hair Doll spot (in the My Body and Me(dia) section).