Here is one of the studies I created for Maybe Something Beautiful due out next April. The story was inspired by the work we have done with many dedicated volunteers in the East Village of downtown San Diego. I was looking for mood and atmosphere as the story written...
This year several new books took flight from my drawing table. This one hits home. Maybe Something Beautiful written by F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell due out this April from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The genesis of this book was a personal journey that...
Looking back at the year I’ve been thinking about the power of perseverance and it’s importance in my own life. What mattered most in the story Margarita Engle wrote about Millo Castro Zaldarriga, was her determined courage to keep going. It’s...
After my last post, it was exciting to find Millo jamming with the moon on The Horn Book Guide 2015. Happy Halloween! Thanks to Tim Wadham at School Library Journal for his post Hands on Titles that Celebrate Maker and Latino...
