Just now, on my walk home: there’s a joke in here…

Some things I came across walking near my house in the last few days

Went today to see Superman in IMax 3D. Very enjoyable.

Packing for San Francisco, where we’ll meet my daughter and her family. We’re bringing along a precious copy of “Dear Mr. Henshaw” for them to take back to Melbourne. Her son said Beverly had stopped signing books for people and this would be her last: she signed it for our as-yet-unborn grandson

We went to the ballet and came out to find that the US “leader” took it on himself to start a war between the US and Iran.

I think this is the first Bluesky post to do what happens all the time on other platforms, assuming I am the president of Ukraine!

I’m offering this for the price of shipping, or you can come pick it up. More explanation in comments

As co-chair of PEN America's Children's and Young Adult Books Committee, I am not charged with taking notes during the zoom meetings, but I do jot down some things, like the first half of this ( I spent much of the next day adding the rest)

Ten days ago I posted pictures of magnolia buds on a tree I pass every day. Here are three more photos I've taken since then, the last one this morning with a beautiful other flowering tree hogging the foreground. Happy full-blown spring!

I walk by this magnolia tree every day and have not noticed all the buds. But today they’re unignorable! Happy spring to all my Northern Hemisphere friends!

@alexlondon.bsky.social @paulozelinsky.com @jewellparkerrhodes.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @robertstarling.bsky.social

I'm on the Advisory Council of @scbwi.bsky.social . Today we had a zoom meeting and I took extensive notes. I've scrambled the words for privacy, but my meaning should be clear from the images!

Sophie Blackall gave a witty and deeply felt closing keynote speech at the SCBWI conference, to a rousing ovation. Then she went to sign books next to @peterbrownstudio.com who had spoken earlier, and a bazillion people lined up. #scbwiny25

At #SCBWI conference, and taking notes on @debbieohi.com speaking about online tips.

On the train home from school visits around Attleboro, MA, the sunset is beautiful and I’m not the only one to think so

My storytime at An Unlikely Story in Plainville, MA, was lots of fun and I thank everyone who came. I don’t have a picture of it but upstairs from it, owner Jeff Kinney was working on a Wimpy Kid book and we got to visit him. My grandkids here are playing outside his spectacular studio.

Notifying anybody who is or has friends in range of the children's bookstore AN UNLIKELY STORY in Plainville, MA, that I need children there this Sunday, Jan 26 2025, because I will be reading STILL LIFE at 3pm, and doing other fun stuff with whoever shows up. www.anunlikelystory.com/zelinsky

I'm a day late, missed out on an easy $1000...

Not sure how long it will last, but STILL LIFE by me and @paulozelinsky.com appears to be 50% off at @barnesandnoble.com right now! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/still-life...

I found my conversation with Giuseppe to be stimulating and worthwhile. If you listen to it, please tell me what you think. Any counterpoints to my points?

I have just changed my BlueSky handle to @paulozelinsky.com. At least I tried to follow @debbieohi.com's advice to use BlueSky's instructions, which were beyond my understanding, but I think I did it. I believe that tags, etc., using the old handle @paulozelinsky.bsky.social should still work.

@debbieohi.com I thought of you, at Fulton St, Subway station

Holiday art show in Port Washington, NY, at their beautiful library, courtesy of Jane Breskin Zalben! Please come if you can! Reception is coming right up 12/7/24, 2pm. My contributions: art from "Red and Green and Blue and White" and "All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah."

My picture book with @paulozelinsky.bsky.social, STILL LIFE, is back in stock over at Bookshop . org if that’s how you roll bookshop.org/a/722/978006...

When The Wheels on the Bus came out in 1990, I could not have imagined that it would one day obsess a grandchild of mine in Australia!

Check out the interview @paulozelinsky.bsky.social & I did on @npr.org Weekend Edition about our picture book STILL LIFE 💙📚 www.npr.org/2024/11/22/n...

If you see this before 8:40am today, Saturday November 23, 2024, I’d be honored if you turned your radio or browser to NPR’s Weekend Edition and you should hear @alexlondon.bsky.social and me chatting about our new book STILL LIFE. And if not, you’ll be able to find it archived online.

I thought I’d just post a couple of photos (day and night, down the block from me)of fall that supposedly is heading toward winter

Things #kidlit book trailers can do, part 1: Intrigue folks about the story, reveal some of the art, and this one by illustrator @paulozelinsky.bsky.social for our RED AND GREEN AND BLUE AND WHITE (out with Levine Querido) also makes a thematic promise: youtu.be/o4BjUR02e4Y?...

Can any Bluesky friends bring children to my story time next Saturday morning (11/23) in Newport, RI? It's a beautiful little bookstore! I'll be reading & drawing from "Still Life" by @alexlondon.bsky.social

Recorded a cool thing today at WHYY studios while @paulozelinsky.bsky.social was at WNYC. Can’t wait to share it sooooooon!

I’m getting ready to be taped by NPR in conversation with @alexlondon.bsky.social about Still Life! Alex is in the Philadelphia studio, I’m across the street from NYPL in Manhattan

This is something my hand drew while I was trying to figure out how to make the dragon movable in my Books of Wonder diorama (I can say more about that later). It is not my dragon and what it's doing with that thing I also don't know, though I have some ideas.

After the wonderful Rochester Book Festival last weekend, I visited The Harley School, which also great fun; they were very well prepared. The third graders watched my cat-drawing video at kidlit.TV (www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ULK...) and presented me with many very presentable felines!

Any BlueSky friends in Rochester, NY? Who can come to the Rochester Children's Book Festival? I'm looking forward to being there! This Saturday, 11/2/24. I give a presentation, about STILL LIFE at 11:55 am! (STILL LIFE just got a great review from SLJ! Starred!)

Hooray! My elaborate but short-lived window display in NYC’s Books of Wonder has gotten a longer-lasting (I think) representation in a PW article! Is this link publically accessible ? www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Alex London and I talked about our picture book STILL LIFE at the Eric Carle Museum today 9/1, and we had a great time. Next Sunday 9/8 we’ll be at Books of Wonder in NYC!

Alex London and I will be at the Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst MA this Sunday, 9/1/24 to talk about it & show stuff! Could you help me by trying to push people into coming? We'll both be grateful to you! The museum's email set my jacket in a bigger gold frame & I like it!

Yesterday's Illustrators Q&A in the SCBWI's online summer conference was great to participate in! I hope attendees got something out of it. Here are two views of the panel: Jerry Bennett's screenshot and my more accurate interpretation. #scbwi #kidlit #doodles

Kidlit friends: SCBWI start their summer online conference in four hours! 5:30pm EDT Aug 1-with a free and important discussion called UNbanning Books, led by Arthur Levine. Register here: shorturl.at/NOB31 for insider scoop on the current state of book bans & their impact on readers & publishing.

To my friends who write MG & YA fiction: 1) Consider applying for the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children's and Young Adult Novelists if you're eligible (check here: pen.submittable.com/submit/28910...) & please 2) share the word so your friends will consider applying for it.But check eligibility!

This really gives me pause (i.e., gives me a bit of the creeps) : genetically engineered petunias that glow in the dark. But maybe I'd love it. And also hard to believe it's real. What do you think? light.bio

Last school year I visited a class studying fairytales and Broadway shows, spoke about "Cinderella and a Mouse Called Fred" and showed them how I draw a mouse. Today I was privileged to attend the results of their 2-year study: a Broadway musical, no less! Curtain call photo doesn't do it justice!

I’m in Kansas City to see the Rabbit hOle. What an experience! I also got shown around behind the scenes—mind-blowing.

An unsolicited email has me thinking..,

Why isn’t this Brooklyn outdoor café featured in all the travel brochures?

Thank you, voting friends! Moose has won the Horn Book’s cover contest! www.hbook.com/story/march-...

The stakes are so high now! Thank you for voting for my Moose cover in the Horn Book’s cover contest! Now it’s down to me vs. Louis Darling— not my comfort zone, but if you voted Moose once, will you vote again? www.hbook.com/story/march-... (voting= writing a comment on the web page)

Pursuant to my last posts about "Still Life" fabric pattern colors, I selected your favorites, mostly, and had some printed on a yard of cotton, and I think I'll either make all but the green-and-pink one available for order on Spoonflower, or adjust that one to look more like it does digitally

As per my last post, I'm asking for opinions on these 16 color variations in pattern for my "Still Life" book. In comments can you give me the 2 top you think I should keep, & two bottom I should toss? I'll post some on Spoonflower.com, but not 16! (If I can't post 16 I'll continue in comments)