Swept

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“I must get these leaves swept away before the North wind blows,” thought Mother Bear. “When the North wind blows, bears get sleepy.”
Not so for baby bears!  “The North wind won’t catch me!” squealed Baby Bear.
Mother paused for a moment and smiled, as she  remembered her own dance of the autumn leaves.  “I hope it never does Baby Bear, I hope it never does!”

I hope you’ll take a moment to go to Scholastic’s  Read everyday Lead a better life Contest and vote! My poster is one of 1o finalists and the winner will be chosen by an online vote and  is open until Monday! So please take a minute and vote!    Thanks!!!

http://opinio.scholastic.com/opinio/s?s=5869

Read EveryDay… Lead a Better Life

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My entry is one of the ten finalists! Go here to vote!
http://opinio.scholastic.com/opinio/s?s=5869

Thank you!

Aspiring artists were invited to interpret Scholastic’s global literacy campaign, Read Every Day. Lead a Better Life.

To enter the contest, participants were asked to illustrate their own vision of the message Read Every Day. Lead a Better Life., emphasizing the importance of reading in the lives of young people.

Scholastic will judge and post the top 10 submissions to the corporate blog, On Our Minds @Scholastic for public voting on Wednesday, June 8. Public voting will be open until 9am ET on Monday, June 13, 2011. The Read Every Day. Lead a Better Life. Illustrators Contest winner will have his or her artwork featured on www.scholastic.com/readeveryday and win a deluxe set of signed posters created exclusively for Scholastic by the twelve children’s book authors and illustrators participating in the auction:

This is my entry… fingers crossed!

Shadows

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“Hildilid dragged her heavy cauldron to the fire so she could boil away the night.  She ladled it, stirred it, simmered it, bubbled it, and burned it, but she could not boil away the night.”

Asleep

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From the book, I See The Animals Sleeping: A Bedtime Story

Written by Thomas M. Heffron Illustrated by Roberta Baird

June 2011

Soaked

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Not wanting to be considered a common fowl, Gallus Domesticus Kelly focused his energy on becoming just like his legendary big screen idol.

Determined to fly the coop, he would rehearse endlessly. When not practicing, Gallus could be found looking skyward, searching for that one gray cloud. Then one particularly pitchy night, drops of rain began to fall. The other chickens ran in fear… but not Gallus.

Gallus was last seen at an Oklahoma bus station. He had with him, the clothes on his back, an umbrella, and in his hand he held a one way ticket to…. Hollywood.

I’m singing in the rain….just singing in the rain…

what a glorious feeling, I’m happy again!

Safari

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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!!!