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Getting Colorful with Eric Carle and Friends

Getting Colorful with Eric Carle and Friends

Excited to be part of a vibrant new picture book from Eric Carle and Friends called What’s your favorite color? Inviting children and families to join me and some friends Mike Curato, Etienne Delessert and William Low for a lively afternoon at the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts this Sunday May 7 from 1-4pm. You can catch the exhibition there about our new book and I am looking forward to leading a workshop about coming up with ideas. It will be fun to watch kids make their own creations at the Art Studio at the Carle. You never need an appointment there and get to play with your imagination, explore new colors and ideas.

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Pursue Poetry this April

Pursue Poetry this April

Both my parents were architects who designed their own house in Mexico. The focal point of our living room were floor to ceiling bookshelves on two long walls they custom built to house books and musical recordings. I remember the excitement exploring second hand bookshops and weekend flea markets with my father to discover treasures that others had left behind. At home I spent endless hours at that bookshelf traveling to distant places through words and images. Part of the thrill of travel is trusting your instincts and getting lost sometimes. Lucky me it was in the poems of Octavio Paz and Pablo Neruda. April is Poetry Month where tens of millions of readers, students, teachers, librarians and booksellers recognize the importance of poetry in our culture and lives.

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Maybe Something Beautiful

Maybe Something Beautiful

GRATEFUL on this rainy day to discover that Maybe Something Beautiful, How Art Transformed a Neighborhood has won the 2017 Tomás Rivera Children’s Book Award. Thank you to my incredible colleagues, authors F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell for artfully telling the story of the Urban Art Trail community murals we began back in 1997.

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