Game Day

Game Day - my behind the scenes look at the world of sports - is a starred recommendation in Canadian Children's Bookcentre Booknews "Best Books 2011". :)

cat d'oeuvres

This is my mood today.

I need to do some (a lot) of restructuring before I can turn this into a finished piece, but it's where my brain is at I'm afraid.

a preview of Neil #3

I've been working away on Neil Flambe #3 (The Crusader's Curse) and here's a preview of Isabella's new haircut.

You may remember from Neil #2 that she lost her normally long curly locks... now it's more of a bob.

I always like drawing Isabella. She's confident, nice... but always seems to be looking back at me with wry disapproval.

Award winner!

Splinters was named a Nautilus Silver award winner!

Wow.

I was absolutely blown away this week. My book Neil Flambe and the Marco Polo Murders was the winner of the Silver Birch award for Fiction. This award is an author's favourite - because it's voted on by students in grades 4-6 all across Ontario. The finalists are always amazing, and the list this year was great.

This is me at the ceremony on a windy day at Harbourfront.

(That's Eric Walters to my left wondering why I'm dressed like a goof... I mean chef).

Too loong...

Boy has it been a long time since I posted. OOPS. I've just wrapped up an amazing week in Quebec touring as part of the TD Bookweek! Something like 18 school visits over 5 days. I'll be at Pages in St. Leonard tomorrow. I hope to have some pics up soon. In the meantime, here are some pics from my recent research trip to Paris. I drew little Neil Flambe pics on all the placemats... did the staff throw them out? burn them? keep them? Dunno....

A while back I blogged about a wolf logo I designed for my friend Sean's School. Well, now they are painting an official version on the gym wall... so COOL