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A shy little boy gets picked to be the tree in the class play. When he gets a very bad case of stage fright, a new friend shows him that "Being a tree can be fun if you give it a try!"

This is the tale of a a very shy little boy who gets picked to be the tree in the class play.  When he gets a very bad case of stage fright, he meets a new unexpected friend, and learns that "Being a tree can be fun if you give it a try!" Stay tuned for more information on the release of the book!

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I had great plans to work on "I Don't Want to Be a Tree" this weekend.  Sadly, I got a case of the flu, and somewhere in between sleeping fifteen hours a day, and feeling sorry for myself the rest, all I did was a rough sketch of the outline of a willow tree.  Sigh.... Read the rest of this post

I fired up my old desktop and found a whole folder called "oldercurtainkids". Among them, I found  the opening scene of Romeo and Juliet. "Two households, both alike in dignity...."

I am getting jitters like I usually get when starting a new job or when I was little on my first day of class, but this time it's because I signed up to attend the Charlotte S. Huck Children's Literature Festival next week!      I'm new to the world of children's book writing and publishing, so I figured this would be a good way to dive in.

Illustrating the book has proved to be somewhat of a challenge. The characters I had drawn up to this point had been scanned, then worked on digitally using a copy of Photoshop Elements that I already had on my computer.  Then one day, I started a free trial of Adobe Illustrator CS4.  Oh my goodness, the world opened up.  However, with my trial about to run out, I started looking for other

Illustrating the book has proved to be somewhat of a challenge. The characters I had drawn up to this point had been scanned, then worked on digitally using a copy of Photoshop Elements that I already had on my computer.  Then one day, I started a free trial of Adobe Illustrator CS4.  Oh my goodness, the world opened up.  However, with my trial about to run out, I started looking for other

Back in 2002, fresh out of college, I was sitting around one day, designing a greeting card, and I ended up drawing a little character.  As I continued to draw, I started thinking of other characters, and I guess you could say they "broke out" of my imagination.  They ended taking on a life of their own, to the point where they started having their own story-lines.  I started thinking about kids