The SCBWI has introduced Draw This!, a monthly art prompt for illustrators. The inaugural prompt for June 2015 is: Bounce. All illustrations submitted will be shown in an online gallery. I'm looking forward to seeing them all! Here's mine:

The first annual Read-a-thon is officially underway at the Earth School in New York City's East Village, where my daughter Natalie is a fifth grader. The theme is travel, journeys through books to new and eye-opening places. I was asked to create a flyer announcing the event (that's it, above), as well as a cover for the "passport" in which the kids are keeping track of books read, places visited and the sponsors who are supporting them. Students and parents have decorated