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Sea Otter - She hunts for food for both of them and never will give up. |
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Chimpanzee - At evening she will place it in a "sleeping" nest. |
Here's two more sleeping animal spreads for November's theme, SLEEP. I feel like a lot of us Americans will need a long nap after this election season. Thanks for taking a look and please check out my
Studio With A View Blog for more images from
Baby on Board and other books.
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Baby on Board |
November's theme is SLEEP. There's nothing like a sleeping baby or getting illustrations turned in for an upcoming book. This is from
Baby on Board, by
Marianne Berkes, published by
Dawn Publications and illustrated by me, Cathy Morrison. Now it's time to get a little sleep.
There's more images from this book, including free downloadable activity sheets at my
Studio With A View Blog.
Happy November!
Here's my WIP or work in progress. It also fits the bill for October's theme word - Foliage. You can see more current projects at my
Studio With A View.
Thanks for taking a look!
Cathy
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In A Nutshell |
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This Land Is Your Land by Catherine Ciocchi, published by Arbordale Publishing, and illustrated by me, Cathy Morrison |
December's theme is WINTER! So here's a wintery scene from
This Land Is Your Land which came out early 2015. The author is
Catherine Ciocchi and the book is about exploring the Earth with land forms.
A hill slopes up above the ground.
The rounded top looks like a mound.
Rolling hills are what you see
when they are in a group of three.
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Wild Ones, Critters in the City |
October's themed word is ORANGE. I'm posting this image from
Wild Ones, Critters in the City because the girl calling her lost dog is wearing an ORANGE shirt.
This book comes out Spring 2016, is written by Carol Malnor, published by Dawn Publishing and illustrated by me,
Cathy Morrison.
Orange you glad I didn't say banana?
By: Arbordale Publishing,
on 9/17/2015
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Marianne Berkes and Cathy Morrison are not newcomers to children’s books, Tortoise and Hare’s Amazing Race is their third book together at Arbordale and individually each of these ladies has an impressive collection of stories and book awards. We are happy to release this adaptation of the classic fable and bring a bit of math into the race!
To learn more about the inspiration behind Marianne’s writing here is a sample of her interview:
What drew you to writing, children’s books ?
As a child our home was filled with books and music. I wrote plays that my friends and I performed in the summer, in our backyard. My dad even helped us build some of the scenery. Reading, writing, music and theater have been a constant in my life. In high school I did interviews for the school paper, and in college wrote my first picture book for a children’s lit class. But it was many years later, after I moved to Florida, that I said “I can do this!” Reading so many books to children at the library where I worked, I kept coming up with ideas of my own. Because I love kids and love “words” I started submitting my stories to publishers, and one day…
What do you hope children get out of your stories?
An appreciation of our earth and respect for nature. I spent a lot of time outdoors as a child and still do. Discovering nature is a life-long adventure that I hope kids today still appreciate. Nature has so many stories to tell and is available to anybody, any place, any time. I hope kids will be entertained by my books, but also that they will want to learn more about the topic. My first book, published in 2000, was about frogs making music in the night. Hopefully after reading this book, kids will go outside in the early evening, especially after a rain, and listen for the sounds I’ve written about. I’ve followed with stories about birds, shells, creatures living in an ocean reef, rainforest animals, Arctic animals, animals that migrate, Australian animals, forest animals (like Polly Possum) and river animals. In Arbordale’s The Tree that Bear Climbed kids also learn how a tree grows, and Daisylocks is about plant life. I’ve also written a book about the planets that I hope kids enjoy. How can we ask them to save the earth, if they don’t learn to appreciate it first? My books are lyrical in verse, making it easy and fun for kids to read with lots of fact blended in. I want kids to really get inside my books, to read them more than once, each time finding something new and exciting!
Do you want to know more read the full interview here!
Leave a comment and enter to win your own copy of Tortoise and Hare’s Amazing Race! Then click below for fun math activities in the For Creative Minds section.
Fort Collins is a great place to live and we're fortunate to have Fort Collins Magazine supporting and celebrating local artists.
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Fort Collins Magazine, Fall 2015 |
Below is an interview with Rachael Coon about being a children's book illustrator.
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Natural Wonder, News and Notes |
Here's a photo of my grandson, Konnor and Crowley, our big brown dog who pop up here and there in illustrated form in several of my picture books. Konnor posed for
If You Love Honey, Nature's Connections. They're both in
The Prairie That Nature Built.
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Konnor and Crowley |
And I have to give a shout out to
Laura Pritchett in the same fall edition. I met Laura at a holiday party last year and just finished her book,
Stars Go Blue. I can't wait to pick up her latest book,
Red Lightning.
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5 Minutes with Laura Pritchett |
Thanks so much to Cara McDonald, the editor of Fort Collins Magazine and Rachael Coon who did a great job with the interview.
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If You Love Honey by Martha Sullivan, illustrated by Cathy Morrison |
August's word-of-the-month is "Picnic" and I just happened to have an image that relates. This book comes out in a couple of weeks and while I wouldn't say it was a picnic to illustrate it, I can say I totally enjoyed researching and illustrating it. The publisher is
Dawn Publications!
Here's an early and very nice review by Sue Poduska with
2nd Grade Reading Blog.
Please check out my
Studio With A View Blog for more information about this book and others.
Thanks for taking a look!
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If You Love Honey by Martha Sullivan, illustrated by Cathy Morrison and published by Dawn Publications |
July's word of the month is "Butterfly". Here's a spread from
If You Love Honey that comes out this fall. You can see more about this book on my
Studio With A View Blog.
Thanks for taking a look!
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Written by Marianne Berkes, illustrated by Cathy Morrison, published by Dawn Publishing |
Ok, it's not a birthday image, (our inspirational word for June is Birthday) but it's the cover for a book I have coming out Spring 2016. Artwork for this book is complete and I'm working away on a second book that will be released the same date. I'll post more about this book and others on my
Studio With A View Blog soon.
Thanks for taking a look!
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Over On The Farm |
Here's one more image representing WINGS. I wanted to post this before April turns to May. This is for an upcoming picture books written by Marianne Berkes and will be out Spring of 2016. It will be a counting book for very young kids. Can you count the owls? I have a few more images from this book on my
Studio With A View Blog. Thanks for taking a look.
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If You Love Honey by Martha Sullivan, illustrated by Cathy Morrison |
April's theme word is WINGS, so here's some blue jays to welcome spring. This is a spread from
If You Love Honey, by Martha Sullivan, published by
Dawn Publications and illustrated by me, Cathy Morrison. It's the second book I've illustrated for Martha and I'm a huge fan of her writing. It seems like kids like her as well.
This is set to come out September 2015. Thanks for taking a look!
Houses don't come in one shape or size. The mole lives underground, the seal lives in the ocean and the deer and fox live in the meadow.
These are illustrations from
Pitter and Patter written by Martha Sullivan, published by Dawn Publishing and illustrated by me, Cathy Morrison. It's one of their new spring releases.
Welcome Home and Happy Spring!
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"If You Love Honey, Nature's Connections" written by Martha Sullivan and illustrated by Cathy Morrison |
OK, let me explain… This month's theme is Valentine and this image has nothing to do with Valentine. But this is an illustration for
If You Love Honey, Nature's Connections. So I'm connecting Valentine with Love and that's why I'm posting this image.
And I just posted new images from this book on my own
blog if you'd like to see more.
Happy Valentine's Day!!
By: Cathy Morrison,
on 1/4/2015
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I have a lot of books that fit under the theme "landscape" so here's some more artwork. This is from
Pitter and Patter, written by Martha Sullivan, published by
Dawn Publications, and illustrated by me, Cathy Morrison. It comes out this spring and is about the water cycle.
Our theme for January is Landscape so here you go. These are from
This Land Is Your Land, a picture book about land forms. It's by Catherine Ciocchi, published by
Arbordale Publishing and illustrated by me, Cathy Morrison. You can see more about this and other projects on my
Studio With A View Blog.
Happy New Year and thanks so much for taking a look!
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Animalogy by Marianne Berkes and illustrated by Cathy Morrison |
August's theme is READING. Here's an image from
Animalogy with a family reading by the campfire. This was my first book for Sylvan Dell Publishing, now Arbordale Publishing and I'm starting my eighth one now. And it's going to be another book by Marianne Berkes. Happy reading!
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Pitter and Patter |
Every month I look forward to June's inspirational word-of-the-month. July's word is BOAT. I don't really have an illustration of a boat that I care to post so you'll have to use your imagination a little. Imagine that there's a boat on the river but it's out of the frame, so you can't see it from here. And while you're imagining what sort of boat it is, why it's there, who's on the boat, please take a look at the dragonfly, otter and trout.
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The Prairie That Nature Built |
Here's more images for May's flower theme. I love purple flowers and they are popping up everywhere in northern Colorado. Last week almost three feet of snow, this week lots and lots of beautiful spring flowers.
Below are a couple of cropped images from
The Prairie That Nature Built. I want to highlight the flowers in nature!
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The Prairie That Nature Built by Marybeth Lorbiecki, illustrated by Cathy Morrison |
Here's my contribution to May's theme of FLOWERS. Thanks to June for this month's inspiration. This illustration is from
The Prairie That Nature Built, coming out this fall. You can see more illustrations from this book and others on my
Studio With A View blog.
Here's an image from a new book coming out Spring 2015. Thanks for taking a look!
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This is the rain that splatters the ground, And quenches the fire that blazed all around. |
This is a spread from
The Prairie That Nature Built, written by Marybeth Lorbiecki, illustrated by me, Cathy Morrison, and published by Dawn Publishing. It comes out September 1, 2014.
A wild prairie is a lively place in this rhythmic romp with munchers and crunchers above and below the grasses so thick, and fires that flare, and rains that quench and always the prairie grows green. Back matter offers information and activities for a fuller appreciation of this marvelous, disappearing habitat.
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Daisylocks |
Here's a polar bear from Daisylocks which just came out last month. Thanks for taking a look!
Here's a big cat. This is from "Animalogy", written by Marianne Berkes, illustrated by me, published by Sylvan Dell Publishing.
Calling all CATS for February. These cats were line art for chapter headings for "Cat Calls" by Jeanne Adlon and Susan Logan, published by Square One Publishing. It was a very fun project to work on. Cats get a bad rap for being aloof, they have amazing personalities.
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