As Fathers Day draws to a close, here is a bust of my father, made by my mother sometime before they were married. I have complicated feelings about my father but I have always admired this head and I am happy it’s in my studio; a number of plaster casts like this are floating around my family.

In which I present my latest McGiver moment

The Park Avenue Armory is the greatest place to hold the Antiquarian Book Fair

worldvoices.pen.org/event/the-tr... If you are in or near NYC on Saturday May 2nd, you absolutely must attend this PEN World Voices Festival panel, on the topic of Graphic Novels and their transformative power. The event is free, but they are asking people to register in advance.

Has anyone seen the play “Giant” on Broadway, with John Lithgow playing Roald Dahl? Dahl was a horrible person (I don’t know first-hand but I do know second-hand). I’m curious what scandal the play treats.

Photographer Kirill Simakov took a photo of unphotogenic me for his portrait exhibit! I hang between Nicholas Lowry of Antiques Road Show (talking here to Kirill with Elie Wiesel behind him) & photographer Bruce Weber. Visit me there! Leonovich Gallery, W 24th St. in NYC, only until March 27

I’m one of the pieces on the wall in a gallery in Chelsea! (New York’s fashionable neighborhood for art galleries). The show is pretty cool, Russian photographer Kirill Simakov in his first solo NY show. Come see it! (Leonovich Galkery , W24th Street)

Brooklyn snow report

So many people have shared my posts about a bookstore visit tomorrow in Takoma Park—thank you! But I have gotten sick and they are canceling! I hope nobody shows up anyway. Apologies.

Please, please, share this event announcement if you know anyone near Takoma Park, MD or even if you don't: bookstore storytime at the terrific new People's Books this Sunday 1/4/26! I'll draw and read and I need kids or even grownups there to make it fun! peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/zelins...

I've posted about the big diorama I made for my book "Still Life" with @alexlondon.bsky.social, which after its stint in the window of @booksofwonder.bsky.social found a permanent home in the store: I've been improving it and just put a page about that on my website, so FYI: shorturl.at/4C94u

In honor of Halloween, I put on my website pictures of mystery/horror paperback book jackets that I made a long time ago. www.paulozelinsky.com/bellairs_jac...

Banana Menorah Countdown: 6 days to go! Today, my first picture book, RED AND GREEN AND BLUE AND WHITE, illustrated by @paulozelinsky.com published by @levinequerido.bsky.social The NYT called it “Beautiful… It’s a message the world can use, throughout the year.” #kidlit #socialjustice

This is coming right up: booksofwonder.com/blogs/upcomi...

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/...