rhymes & patterns
a book brings two coasts together, smiling broadly like birdies calling OK, there’s my haiku in honor of Susan Blackaby, who’s in the air at this moment, maybe somewhere over the marshes of the Cape. I will meet her today! Hooray! We’ll be doing bookish things tomorrow at the Peaks Island School and the Portland Public Library. YAP! YA Authors Talk Books With Teens Thursday, October 14th, 2010 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Teen Library Lounge Portland Public Library Monument Square, Portland, Maine INFO: 207-871-1700 x773 Ages 12+ I have souvenir nature journals all ready for the...
Read Morenature trail
Woo hoo! The esteemed author, Susan Blackaby, of Nest, Nook & Cranny will be flying in from the other Portland in mid-October! It will be our first chance to meet before combining forces in a couple of book events. Meanwhile, I’m brainstorming with the brilliant Kirsten Cappy of Curious City to map out a nature walk in conjunction with an art show on Peaks Island. My island habitat has provided so much reference for that book, and my outlook in general, it seems only fair to share it! Every day, I’m trekking through some woods with my mutt, always with eyes peeled and just...
Read Morebook roamings
The whole brood went on a roundabout to Camden on Friday. This barn, spotted along Route 126, seemed like a good omen. We stopped in Rockland to check out our neighbor’s paintings hanging at the Dowling Walsh Gallery on Main Street. Scott Kelley’s huge watercolors of birds and warp are intricately compelling while swooping your eye all around. We skipped across the street to Archipelago, where my wee book is for sale. From there we checked in at our lodging and went straight to the pool, which brought back dappled memories of growing up, poolside, at the Red Doors Motel. Thanks...
Read Morebook peeps
Wooooo! This just arrived via Charlesbridge Publishing. Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins is now published in Korea! It’s a thrill to see my illustrations paired with another language, and to know the book is getting a wider audience. And in other news: Seven Days of Daisy is scheduled to be published by Down East next May! My wee book about the passage of time, island-style, has come a long way since I wrote it back in 2002. Now Nana needs a walker and lives in assisted living in Portland. But some things don’t change, such as Daisy’s fascination with the little things. A...
Read Morenature’s way
Now that the steamy Solstice has come and gone, it’s hard to believe that six months ago I was working on Ice Harbor Mittens for Down East, snug as a bug in my studio with icicles outside. Peter Ralston photographed me starting one of the illustrations for that book, due out this October. A mighty swell article came out of that, “Happily Ever After” appearing in the 2010 Island Journal, published by the Island Institute. This is one of the photos that didn’t get used, but you can see how I’m trying not to laugh at Peter, who needed me to smile. And a day later,...
Read Morebeneath the surface
I kinda fell off the blog rhythm, as I faced a perfect storm of tasks. This illustration from Nest, Nook, & Cranny is a good metaphor for feeling submerged. Sure, it’s field trip season at salmon hatcheries, but I’ve been way too busy with conflicting responsibilities, such as moving my 86-year-old mother into a local assisted living facility, wrapping up two classes, and completing a full-color picture book project. No wonder I am out of breath. The good news is that my daughter, ever resourceful, keeps making her own discoveries. While at the dock, eating ice cream with a...
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