With the 2012 Tomie Depaola Award ready to be announced on Monday, January 9, 2012, I thought you might like to take a look at a good share of the Unofficial Gallery of the Tomie dePaola Award entries. This was put together by Diandra Mae a contributing artist and fellow Texan! You’ll be delighted at the different interpretations of P.C. Asbjörnsen’s story, Chicken Licken. Check it out!
Unofficial Gallery of the Tomie dePaola Award
Oh wow… check it out! My Illustrator Showcase is up over at Sunshine Smile Publications!
http://www.sunshinesmilepublications.co.uk/showcase/showcase-roberta-baird
In my interview, you’ll read about past and current projects. What I’m promoting now… which is of course,
I See the Animals Sleeping a Bedtime Story.
You’ll also read about books we’re reading at home, a wee bit about process and more…
So let me tell you a bit about Sunshine Smile Publications. They are:
“In just five days, more than 25,000 votes were cast in our Read Every Day. Lead a Better Life. art contest, in which the public submitted their own interpretations of our global literacy campaign slogan, inspired by the 12 illustrators who did the same.” Blogged by Morgan, one the On Our Mind @ Scholastic bloggers.
Mine was the winning entry!!!
So a big thank you to Scholastic for the opportunity to be in a contest like this, with such a great message about reading, and to the other contestants. It was a pleasure to be in the company of such creative artists!
Thank you to all the people who voted… you guys are amazing!
Read Every Day! Lead a Better Life!
When on safari, take only pictures….
Leave only footprints….
And please don’t wake the animals!
My newest illustrated book I See the Animals Sleeping, a Bedtime Story, written by Thomas Heffron, Illustrated by me, and produced by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine comes out in June 2011!
I can hardly wait!!!
Shhh…. Under layers of earth the platypus is sleeping.
Platypus spend around half their day resting in short, oval-shaped burrows of about 3 to 8 m long that they dig into earth banks around rivers, lakes or streams. They often have multiple burrows scattered along their home range. Females also dig elaborate nesting burrows around 20 m long with multiple chambers and earth plugs which they share with their unweaned young. The burrow is expertly hidden from predators. You might walk right by it and never notice it.
A sneak peek of my newly illustrated book coming out in the spring of 2011.
I’m so excited to show you a sneak peak of my first illustrated book!
The book is a bedtime story full of sleepy, cuddly creatures of all kinds. Look for it in early spring of 2011!
May sleep envelop you as a bed sheet floating gently down, tickling your skin and removing every worry. Reminding you to consider only this moment. ~Jeb Dickerson
This is my latest promotional postcard which will go in the mail after the holidays in January!
Speaking of mail…. OK, this has nothing to do with mail at all… but The Doodle Diners are working on the twelve days of Christmas! We’re up to the Five Golden Rings but you can surely catch up with the rest by clicking HERE.
My days are The Seven Swans on Sunday, and the Twelve Drummers on Christmas Eve!
They just arrived! Another set of postcards… another mailing…. more crossed fingers and toes!
Now to get those witchey ladies to Vista for my Halloween postcard.
I did it! I signed up for an online portfolio over at Picturebook.
http://picture-book.com/users/rbaird-0
