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
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Talk about a great way to start Mo-vember!JOIN THE PIGEON'S CROWD! READ ALOUD! is a fantastic month-long initive from the Indianapolis Public Library to encourage you to read ALOUD with your kids! There are games, incentives ( Pigeon canvas bag anyone? Pizza?), a reading log, and more!Both the Pigeon and I couldn't be happier to be part of the fun!So, what are you waiting for? Get reading OUT
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The countdown begins:When we announced our live studio simulcast a few months back, the requests started pouring in. Due to bandwidth limitations, our cut-off was 200 schools and/or libraries.I thought it would be mostly schools, but luckily quite a few public libraries signed up, which means that if you live near by, you should be able to join in the fun on OCTOBER 6TH AT 2PM EST.This is a
If you're in NYC this Sunday Oct 4th and you like celebrities reading picture books, then please drop by the NYTimes Great Children's Read 2009!Happily, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! is on this year's list of 'favorite reads' with some awesome titles.The schedule is here.
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Speaking of Theater....UK Children's Theatre troupe Big Wooden Horse's latest Pigeon-tastic show has flown over the pond.Starting at the end of this month, Pigeon Party (featuring highlights from Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!, and Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!) will be touring the USA and Canada for 6 months of shows.If you want to check out a show in your
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If you visited the Bucktown Arts Fest in Chicago last weekend, you would have seen the Trapdoor Theater's wacky version of Elephant and Piggie's I AM INVITED TO A PARTY!Is that a band playing music during the Fancy, Costume, Pool Party?Awesome!Speaking of Elephant and Piggie, they popped back onto the NY Times Bestseller List this week with Elephants Cannot Dance! at #10; their 11th week on the
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To celebrate the release of Elephant and Piggie's latest, Elephants Cannot Dance, the fine folks over at PigeonPresents.com have just released a brand new Elephant and Piggie Party Kit chock full of games, ideas, coloring pages... In short, everything you need to get your little Elephants dancing.Just click here, and at the bottom of the page you'll see a link that will download 20 pages of free
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Instead of a fall tour this year, we're going to try something a little different: a simulcast visit to my studio for schools and libraries. If you want your organization to be one of the 200 schools and libraries that I'll visit by video (vidsit?) on October 6th, just head over to pigeonpresents.com* and click on either Elephant or Piggie** when they pop up on the homepage.The plan is for me to
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It seems like my most popular post on this blog hasn't been about my books or anything; it's been about my dining room's chalkboard walls.Well, this weekend the family had a big erase and re-draw, so I thought I'd share.Seeing as it's April, we thought this time the theme should be "waiting for the bus in the rain". A sub theme of "really, really weird" also seemed to emerge. Again, the whole
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I think I've mentioned that the Children's Book Council is holding their annual Children's Choice Book Awards election for Children's Book Week...Well, the voting has begun. The Pigeon Wants a Puppy! is a nominee for favorite K-2 book and I'm up for favorite illustrator.Cool, huh?So, whadday waiting for? Vote already!And good luck to everyone... It's a good list of nominees this year!(Speaking
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For those of you who haven't had a chance to listen to my previously plugged, chatty interview on WAMC's the Roundtable a week or so back, I took some time from answering questions to teach you how to draw the Pigeon without looking at it.This lovely cartoon comes from Alice (long time listener, first time Pigeon drawerer) who'd never even heard of the Pigeon before she heard how to draw it... Read the rest of this post
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One of the cool parts about making books for kids is when educators can take them and turn them into cool classroom fodder.I love students creating their own Pigeon books, performing Elephant and Piggie skits in class, or using Knuffle-esque photo-collage to make little autobiographical scenes.And as you know, I love getting them in the mail. Well the old mailbag had a cool new assignment based
It’s time for me to thank you for your support this year with a little gift. Last year’s Pigeon Book Plate was such a hit, I thought I’d up the ante this year with a printable, cutable, personal Knuffle Bunny Holiday Desk Bunny! Just click on the image to enlarge, print out, follow the instructions and voila!* You’ve got your own personal desk bunny to keep you company this holiday season.
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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
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I've got a new gig as NPR's radio cartoonist. It's a dream come true; I've always wanted to cartoon for a non-visual medium. The cool thing is that you can guess the caption as well, and the funny ones will be read on All Things Considered. Check out the details here. I'll be recording the gags tomorrow, so I assume they'll start airing soon. Rock on! (Oh, and if you think this is a cool
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I’m taking a blog-break for a bit, so for entertainment why not head on over to PigeonPresents.com and check out the brand new awesomely animated Elephant and Piggie Dance game, just in time to celebrate the release of E+P’s brand new I Love My New Toy! and I Will Surprise My Friend! And here’s a sooper-secret secret: Certain dance combo’s create special extra dances! Can you find them?
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Hot on the heels of getting my new US Elephant and Piggies, what should arrive in the post, but 4 rather new English (as is British) editions of the first four Elephant and Piggie adventures. Jolly good, what? Walker, my UK publisher has lots of my books, take a look. And over at Hyperion, you can download an Elephant and Piggie Event Kit.
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The folded paper festival continues (with some mythical beasts thrown in). They're so fun to make.
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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).
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The Trixter and I have taken to quickly doodling up versions of our brand new board game TRIXIE & DADDY BOUNCE 3000®© ™ while waiting for our food in cafes. The rules are simple. You move forward on a board unless you land on a square that makes you go backwards (or more forward, or lose a turn, or get a turn, or whatever…). If someone lands on you, you bounce back one and they bounce
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I just received my copy of the National Education Association’s Read Across America 2008 Resource Calendar and Toolkit which features gobs of cool stuff, including a calendar jam-packed with illustrations from books by pals Kadir Nelson, Jon Muth, Christopher Myers, Robert Neubecker, and many others (oh, like me. Knuffle Bunny Too is January). It rocks. Also included is this Elephant and Piggie
Here’s a little something for the holiday season: a Pigeon bookplate. Click on the image to enlarge, print, fill in the name of a friend, and voila! Goes well with all kinds of books. Except maybe Jon Scieszka books. I don’t think they’ll work with Jon Scieszka books. Happy holidays.
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… begins auction #3 for Robert’s Snow, which has some pretty cool snowflakes available (with proceeds going to cancer research). You can even bid on my little number. Bid often, bid high. The auction closes at the end of the week. In less moral news, my spies tell me that there is a good chance of Knuffle Bunny (the book) appearing on the television series All My Children this Friday (Dec.
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Hi, <br />I'm an English teacher from Taiwan. Yesterday I saw your book "There is a bird on my head!" and bought it home right away! I'm so into that story and introduce it to other teachers. Now I can't wait to read other books of Elephant and Pig series!!<br /><br />Betty