Morning doodle

Morning Doodle

Morning doodle

If you see this, post your bird art #birds

Cover reveal! Soccerology Out in April from #AnnickBooks

Morning doodle #IReadCanadian

Today's also a great day to check out Canadian authors & illustrators at our indie bookstores! You can find your nearest one here - www.indiebookstores.ca/ #books #booksky

Late morning doodle

It’s Levi’s Gift Book Birthday!!!🧁📚 Author Kathy Stinson and I @elliearscott.bsky.social with @nimbuspub.bsky.social invite you to celebrate with us at our book launch this Sunday Nov. 9th, 2-3:30, 918 Bathurst St. Toronto. There’ll be celebratory cookies! #cankidlit #kidlit #canscaip #scbwi

Authors & illustrators! LitWorld's World Read Aloud Day is Feb. 4th - want to Zoom into schools for read-alouds on that day? Here's the sign-up form: forms.gle/eN4FwA9HB4Fb... Teachers & librarians! My newsletter will have info soon! Sign up here: katemessner.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...)

Morning doodle

Join IBBY Canada for a night of KidLit Trivia hosted by acclaimed author and illustrator Kevin Sylvester! Tickets 🎟️ www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/international-board-on-books-for-young-people/events/kidlit-trivia-night-1

Morning doodle

Night of the Living Zed has been challenged a few times recently and I want to fight for it… at its big heart the story is our love letter to #Halloween (and even contains some pot shots at candy corn) Hope everyone has a great one! @harperkids.bsky.social

Morning doodle

Morning doodle

How is the attack on arts and culture in the U.S. impacting Canada? So many thoughts about this and I am looking forward to this conversation! Join us online Nov. 20. (Thanks @cfetmu.bsky.social @pencanada.bsky.social and Mass Culture!)

In this episode of Unbound Voices, Ira Wells, President of PEN Canada, sits with Samira Mohyeddin to reflect on the growing wave of book bans in Canada and the urgent need to safeguard the freedom to read. 🎧 Watch or listen now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=78X7...

AND I can probably be bribed with nachos

In honour of pre-Halloween (or, as Zed Watson calls it Hallowe’en-owe’en*) I present two of the spooky early versions of the Zed 2 cover. (Never seen!) I wanted ghosts! *Zed does a checklist of the neighbourhood to make sure everyone is ready. @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @harperkids.bsky.social

Tonight’s #PubTrivia #Doodles

Warmup doodle

My latest stained glass Transom address #NewHobby

For great #CDN books for youth, from picture books to early readers, NF, MG, graphic novels, & YA, the @forestofreading.bsky.social has them all. And young readers get to chose their favourites as part of the program. Get your young people & schools enrolled asap! ❤️🇨🇦📚 May the Forest be with you!

I’d love to talk to parents who object to this book. It’s a sweet middle grade adventure/mystery about an adorable and funny kid. That’s all. Thanks to champs like Debbie for rereading !!!!

THANKS @quillandquire.bsky.social for a lovely review of Time Surfers! “The perfect story for a thoughtful middle-grader who wants at least a little realism with their high-stakes adventure.” Out NOW from @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social quillandquire.com/review/time-...

OUT NOW! One of the questions I wanted to answer in this book is… if you could go back in time and save a lost treasure… what would you save? And BTW if you answered “I’d save someONE” you just sentenced yourself to death. harperstacks.com/products/tim...

Quote with your yellow art!

Tonight’s #DrinkinAndThinkin #PubTrivia with @mackaytaggart.bsky.social #Doodles

Tomorrow! But I’m celebrating my #BookBirthday today! (Tomorrows a day for reflection here in Canada)

If there’s an author you appreciate, one of the simplest, most helpful, least expensive things you can do for them is ask your public library to add that author’s newest book to their collection. Many library websites have a form for that. So give it a try, and make an author’s day!

Time Surfers is out next week from @harpercollinsca.bsky.social One more sneak peek at some early sketches. Some rough drawings of Caleb and my first attempt to draw the Fish riding a gravitational wave - that ended up on the cover. www.harpercollins.ca/978144347506...

Tonight’s #DrinkinAndThinkin with @mackaytaggart.bsky.social #PubTrivia #Doodles

Just added this little guy on my shop! #Gnomes are always a blast to draw kevinarts.bigcartel.com

The Tether. The device that anchors the Time Surfers to the present, even as they dive into the past. Each Surfer’s is different. This is an early sketch of the tether on board the Fish - Caleb and his father’s time surfing craft. Time Surfers - out Sept. 30 from @harpercollins.bsky.social

I’ve been playing with Procreate Dreams and put together a little trailer for my new book Time Surfers (out on the 30th from @harpercollins.bsky.social www.harpercollins.ca/978144347506...

Tonight’s #DrinkinAndThinkin with @mackaytaggart.bsky.social #PubTrivia #Doodles

Hey #kidlit illustrators! We're beginning work on new Christmas/nighttime themed picture book. I'm looking for someone with a painterly, textured, and literary style capable conjuring magic, light, and wonder. Please respond w/ samples + folio link. Please no emails/DMs. 💙❤️ #artcommissions

Another early study… for the Inspector (boooo!) Find out why he wants Caleb dead when Time Surfers launches from @harpercollinsca.bsky.social on Sept 30th

If you see this, post a #unicorn you've painted/drawn 🦄 (This was one I doodled this morning making some bookmarks for my school visits!)

If you see this post a vampire! 🧛‍♀️ #art #vampire #Zed

My #DrinkinAndThinkin #pubtrivia #doodles

My amazing kid (and sometime co-creator) is on a bookmark!

Add your own books! #ReadCanadian

Time Surfers is out in a couple of weeks from @harpercollinsca.bsky.social I’ll share some sketches from the “concept” stage until launch. www.harpercollins.ca/978144347506...

I love endpapers (The Hardy Boys instilled this in 12-year old me). This was my proposal for endpapers - mirroring the cover - for Time Surfers. It didn’t make the cut… which makes me sad

Gimli and book

One month away