Picture Book for Tanglewood Press

Tanglewood Books

Last week I agreed to illustrate a children’s book for Tanglewood Press and yesterday morning I signed and mailed the contract, so now it’s official!

Perhaps the most well known book in Tanglewood’s catalog is The Kissing Hand, by Audrey Penn.   It’s always nice to know I’ll be in good company.  Of course I can’t say much about the book I will be illustrating except that it will likely be published in fall 2012.  However, I can say that upon my first reading of it I liked the story very much.  I didn’t have to convince myself of that.  Visually speaking, it is just the sort of story that I would like to illustrate.  It will be a 32-page picture book – so there’s a lot of work to do between now and then.  And while I’ve lately been experimenting digitally, I think it best if I use traditional pastel.

In other news, this past weekend I completed a Wizard of Oz poster for a charity.  This morning I dropped it off and they were very pleased indeed.  I will try to post it here on the site by the end of this week.