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It's been a crazy month of pals, work, appearances, family, & holiday. ALA was great fun. I always enjoy seeing old pals, authors, editors, librarians, and their ilk on the floor.  This years Caldecott & Newbery speeches were excellent and this years Geisel Medalist, Josh Schneider, knocked it out of the park. I was honored to receive my honor for Elephant & Piggie's I BROKE MY TRUNK! and to be

I'm heading to Anaheim for the American Library Association's convention (my schedule is here), then off to visit pals, colleagues, and family across California for a bit. This blog will remain dormant until my return, although I'm sure The Pigeon will continue to tweet occasionally during the interim. When I return there will be all kinds of cool announcements about upcoming stuff in the

Thanks to you THE DUCKLING GETS A COOKIE?! spends its 9th week on the New York Times Bestseller List at #6!  Thanks you! I also got a chance to thank some of you in person last week at Book Expo America in NYC.  I had a good, although very busy, time.  It was nice to see various librarians, booksellers, editors, agents, & blogger pals in addition to catching up with the likes of Jon

Thanks to all who came out for an afternoon of weirdness at ALA. Jon Scieszka & I can't get enough of those funky carts!

The studio is going to ease up on posts during the summer in order to focus on some work (and focus on some playtime).Do check back on occasion as there will be some fun stuff this summer including my visit to ALA in Washington, DC, a very cool exhibit at San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum (along with work of Jeff Smith!), brand new Pigeon games and puzzles, and assorted bits of oddness.And as

I'm off to a slew of events in NYC for Book Expo America. I'll be signing and chatting both for attendees and the general public in Brooklyn on my own and with the great Jon J Muth (to promote our picture book City Dog, Country Frog).All of the details are here (scroll down).While I'm away, let's take a look at June's public appearances.Saturday June 5, 11amReading and SigningBroadside

If you couldn't make it to this year's National Library Drill Cart Competition, the magic of the Information Super Highway brings it to your home...1st place:2nd place:3rd place:Please note that if myself and Jon Scieszka are incomprehensible on tape that's because we were incomprehensible in real life. It's our schtick.Rock on.

from Chicago and the ALA Conference madness...The family had a great time visiting with friends, checking out new books, and hangin' with fans. Chicago is an awesome town.I had great fun at the Art Institute and the Convention Floor signings and bumped into author/illustrator pals Jackie Woodson, Jon Scieszka, Mac Barnett, Kadir Nelson, Laura Seeger, Brian Selznick, Mark Teague, Walter Myers,

To Chicago for the American Librarian Association convention. I'll be speaking at the Art Institute, signing, hosting a library cart competition, running into pals, and accepting the 2009 Geisel Medal for Elephant and Piggie's Are You Ready To Play Outside?My schedule is here.While I won't be able to recap anything until I get back from Chicago next week, the Pigeon will be tweeting (coo-ing?)

I just spent the last week or so in NYC catching up with pals, going to meetings, playing petanque with the guys in Bryant Park, and attending various signings, signing copious amounts of books, enjoying dinners, lunches, chats, and events at Book Expo America.I had an exhausting, yet fun time catching up with pals like Jon Scieszka, Ridley Pearson, Dave Barry, Holly Black, Jeff Kinney, Amy

and I couldn't be happier about it.[The Mass. State Synchronized Library Cart Competition last week in Springfield, MA. Jon Scieszka and I will see you at Nationals this July at ALA in Chicago.]PS: Batman didn't seem as engulf in a private rage and grief as I had been led to believe from all of those comic books. He seemed fairly well adjusted for a guy running around in his underwear.PPS: You

I had good, yet overwhelming fun at the NY Comic Con this weekend. The crowds were large, the fans fun, and I got to run into a bunch of pals like Charise Harper, Lane Smith and Molly Leach, Tom Tomorrow, the guys at First Second, Top Shelf, MAD Mag, and on and on…But for me the highlight, pal wise, was getting to meet Diary of a Wimpy Kid’s Jeff Kinney, a sooper-nice dude who’s funny and

I'm off to NY Comic Con for an appearance on Sunday. So, in the mean-time, here's a gallery of some recent photos that have come my way... First, lovely shots from Dave Moore at the St. Louis Library event for the Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed Tour... Next, did you know that before pal Jeannie Birdsall became a top-notch author, she was an art photographer? You did. Oh, well.