I've been telling folks that DinoTracks comes out next year, but now have to remember to say this fall. Happy 2013!
By Cathy Morrison
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Here's a spread from DinoTracks, my fourth illustrated book with Sylvan Dell Publishing. These are polar dinosaurs, Timimus Hermani who lived at the icy south pole. OK, the santa hat was added later - that's my artistic license showing.
I've been telling folks that DinoTracks comes out next year, but now have to remember to say this fall. Happy 2013!
By Cathy Morrison
I was excited when I heard that November's theme is "Dinosaurs" because I'm in the midst of drawing exactly that. Actually the book is about dinosaur tracks and the science of studying the tracks. The tracks provide clues to the movement, behavior, what they ate, lots of information about dinosaurs come from their footprints. Hopefully I'll be posting more dinos as the month goes along.
Happy November everybody!
September's theme is "Character" but I've been working on a couple of picture books where there's no central character. So that's a huge challenge I don't have to deal with although there's other concerns to make sure there's continuity throughout the book. This is one spread from Nature Recycles, written by Michelle Lord and published by Sylvan Dell Publishing. This spread is about how the decorator sea urchin recycles. Other examples of recycling in nature are the elf owl, hermit crab, veined octopus, dung beetle, poison dart frog, you and I, etc. Look for it spring 2013.
By: Cathy Morrison,
on 7/17/2012
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Do you know about The Studio? Every week the Girl Scouts showcase inspiring storytellers of all kinds, offering an inside look at how they do what they do. It started with authors, has now expanded to include illustrators and soon the girl scouts will be able to upload their own work. The goal is to create a community of creative work shared by the girls and professionals working in a variety of creative careers. I'm honored to be showcased this week, along with illustrations I've done for the Young Patriot Series.
Here's another image, a full spread this time from Michelle Lord's Nature Recycles, published by Sylvan Dell Publishing. What do sea urchins, hermit crabs, carolina wrens, elf owls, veined octopus, woodpecker finch, dung beetles, termites, caddisfly larva, poison dart frogs, asian elephants, and people all have in common? Yes, you got it, recycling!
Here's some Asian Elephants from a book I'm illustrating by Michelle Lord called "Nature Recycles, Why Don't You?" It comes out Spring 2013. Happy Memorial Day weekend!!
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on 1/31/2012
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My daughter, Andrea Brown produced this book trailer for Animalogy: Animal Analogies and I think she did a great job. The author, Marianne Berkes is one of my favorite writers today so I was excited to be teamed up with her for this book. Marianne's a retired teacher and librarian who has turned her love of nature and teaching into writing. She uses rhyming analogies about animals to give kids a different way to see how animals are related. . . bat is to flit as eagle is to soar; dog is to bark as lion is to roar. Comparisons include sounds, physical adaptations, behaviors, animals classes and are so fun, readers learn without even realizing it. Animals are to nature, as Animalogy is to fun!
Thanks for taking a look.
Cathy
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I've been telling folks that DinoTracks comes out next year, but now have to remember to say this fall. Happy 2013!
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Happy November everybody!
Cathy Morrison
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Wow, these beavers are pretty amazing animals! Who knew? I need to check out Jean Heilprin Diehl, she's really good....
Beatrix the beaver longs to be good at something. Her brother Bevan is an expert at repairing the lodge with mud and twigs. Her sister Beverly is a superb swimmer and underwater gymnast. What makes Beatrix stand out? One day, she runs away by swimming up the creek and finds some fresh garden plants to eat, and tasty trees to gnaw. When her siblings set off to find her, all Three Little Beavers wind up trapped! It takes some simple engineering on the part of the humans who set the traps, and Beatrix's discovery of her special talents, for the people and beavers to finally find a way to live in harmony.
Konnor loves Three Little Beavers and wants to read it again and again. Here's the book trailer created by Andrea Brown.
And Sylvan Dell Publishing always includes a Creative Minds section with cross-curricular teaching activities aligned to each state's reading standards, free reading quizzes, lots of fun stuff.
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Cathy
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Here's my "something RED" for December's theme - a little red wagon along with some yellow, brown, green, blue and purple.
Happy Holidays!!
Cathy
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A is for ant.This is one of my illustrations for a picture book I'm illustrating with lots and lots of animals and insects and live things in general.
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Happy February! I hope we have some bicycle riding weather soon. In the meantime here's an illustration for Little Laura's Recycle Cycle, a project being shopped around for a good home.
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This artwork is a cover wrap for Hard Face Moon by Nancy Oswald. It's a young adult novel based on the actual events surrounding Sand Creek Massacre which took place near Big Sandy Creek in the Colorado Territory on November 29, 1864. A wonderful read!
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Happy July to everybody. Here's my swimming pig, one of several illustrations for an educational picture book. This pig can do a lot but loves swimming the best.
Cathy
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Very Nice Cathy - love the hat ; )
Thanks Peggy, The publisher used it for the holidays.