#kid lit

Books read in March 2022
BUSTER UNDERCOVER by Caleb Zane Huett
TIGER VS. NIGHTMARE by Emily Tetri
THE MUSHROOM AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS by Oliver Burkeman
CAMP by Kayla Miller
FIBBED by Elizabeth Agyemang
SLIP by Marika McCoola and Aatmaja Pandya
WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A LIST OF FURTHER POSSIBILITIES by Chen Chen
THE LESBIANA’S GUIDE TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL by Sonora Reyes

I turned in art for my first picture book yesterday (ahhh!!!), and I’m still feeling spaced out, coming off that disoriented post-exam feeling of anxiety and anticipating the months ahead before being able to see how it all turned out.

Gorillaz

Here’s an oldie from late 2018 that I decided to touch up a bit.
The theme was black market haha

Here are a bunch of illos from that picture book I did about the Chinese Legend of the Monkey King. I had so much fun playing with color on this book.

The book is bilingual. The story is told in English and Chinese on each page.

If you want to pick it up you can find it HEREorHERE.

“My name is Sun Wukong. I am brave and fierce,” he said to the heavens.

Thrill me, chill me, fulfill me, creature of the night

AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Longlists

AAASandSubaru are pleased to announce the longlist for the 2019 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize. The prize, sponsored by Subaru, has been celebrating outstanding science writing and illustration for all age groups since 2005. Awards are presented in five categories: Children’s Science Picture Book, Middle Grades Science Book, Young Adult Science Book, and Hands-On Science Book. Beyond honoring these books with an award, AAAS and Subaru partner to bring them into the community. Through the #SubaruLovesLearning initiative, the finalists and winning books are donated to schools all over the country. Additionally, we creates free K-12 teaching materials based on the books. AAAS believe that, through good science books, this generation, and the next, will have a better understanding and appreciation of science.

Longlist for 2019 Children’s Science Picture Book Award

• The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the  World’s Coral Reefs, by Kate Messner. Illustrated by Matthew Forsythe. Chronicle Books, 2018.
  
• The Great Rhino Rescue: Saving the Southern White Rhinos, by Sandra Markle. Millbrook Press, 2018.
  
• A House in the Sky: And Other Uncommon Animal Homes, by Steve Jenkins. Illustrated by Robbin Gourley. Charlesbridge, 2018.
  
• Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea: How a Science Project Helps One Family and the Planet, by Elizabeth Suneby. Illustrated by Rebecca Green. Kids Can Press, 2018.
  
• It Starts with a Seed: Watch a Tiny Seed Grow into a Wildlife Wonderland, by Laura Knowles. Illustrated by Jennie Webber. Quarto Group/words & pictures, 2017.
  
• Living Things and Nonliving Things: A Compare and Contrast Book, by Kevin Kurtz. Arbordale Publishing, 2017.
  
• Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth, by Nicola Davies. Illustrated by Emily Sutton. Candlewick, 2017.  
  
• What Do They Do with All That Poo?, by Jane Kurtz. Illustrated by Allison Black. Simon & Schuster, 2018.
  

Longlist for 2019 Middle Grades Science Book Award 

• Champion: The Comeback Tale of the American Chestnut Tree, by Sally M. Walker. Henry Holt and Company, 2018.
  
• Impact! Asteroids and the Science of Saving the World, by Elizabeth Rusch. Photographs by Karin Anderson. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
  
• Itch! Everything You Didn’t Want to Know About What Makes You Scratch, by Anita Sanchez. Illustrations by Gilbert Ford. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
  
• My First Book of Quantum Physics, by Sheddad Kaid-Salah Ferrón. Illustrations by Eduard Altarriba. Button Books, 2018.
  
• Rewilding: Giving Nature a Second Chance, by Jane Drake and Ann Love. Annick Press, 2017.
  
• She Found Fossils, by Maria Eugenia Leone Gold and Abagael Rosemary West. Illustrations by Amy J. Gardiner. CreateSpace, 2017. [Also available in Spanish.]
  
• Trash Revolution: Breaking the Waste Cycle, by Erica Fyvie. Illustrations by Bill Slavin. Kids Can Press, 2018.
  

The longlists for the Hands-on and YA categories will be announced later this week. Learn more here.

Blessing your feed with some good friends, Pan & Trumpet <3

Some serious character development this week

Brochure interior art

Interior brochure art

A piece I did for my regional SCBWI conference

The original piece done for Birmingham Parent Magazine. No masthead, sell lines, etc.

Tiny little gouache painting

Some chicken bumpkins