I am honored to announce that Cleveland Public Library has selected BIRD to be on it’s 2008 Celebrate With Books list. from the web site: Celebrate With Books In 1906 the Cleveland Public Library published, for the first time, a list with suggestions for holiday book purchases for boys and girls. The list has evolved … Read more
Wow! It’s almost January. Time for new resolutions, new plans, and new dreams. This year has been absolutely fantastic! Since BIRD was published in October, I’ve visited schools, libraries and bookstores introducing my work and hopefully inspiring young people to follow their own creative dreams. Recently I conducted a children’s printmaking workshop at the Brooklyn … Read more
On this edition of Just One More Book!!, Mark speaks with Zetta Elliott, author of the book Bird, about publishing picture books that tackle real-life issues like drug addiction, getting published in foreign markets and being daring as both book publishers and book buyers.
Zetta and I will be signing copies of BIRD in Atlanta on December 15th at Frederick Douglass High School. If you have unsigned copies already, please feel free to bring them! If you haven’t purchased a copy and would like to, we will have books available for sale.
This year I spent Thanksgiving with one of my best friends —FilmMaker, Nadirah Bell. It was my first time eating Tofurkey with miso…yum. I was also able to relax a bit and veg out on movies, tv, and books. I read BLACK GIRL IN PARIS by Shay Youngblood. went to see AUSTRALIA by Baz Luhrman … Read more
Kirkus Reviews has named BIRD one it’s best books of 2008. What an honor! Special thanks to Erika Rohrback for the interview and feature. You can download the pdf and read the feature in it’s entirety here:
Here is the shiny new book trailer for BIRD. Enjoy!
Last year I did work for Scholastic’s Read and Rise e-zine. After many months of patient waiting I finally got word that the magazine is up and running! You can check out AMINAH LOVES ART in issue number 2. While you’re there, make sure you see other wonderful stories and illustrations by many talented artists. … Read more
There will be a great write-up about BIRD and many other SVA graduates’ work in the November issue of Bookpage by Robin Smith. 🙂
This Saturday, Brownstone Books hosted a launch party for BIRD. It was a great turn out of family and friends, new and old. We sold out of books within the first half hour of our signing but promised to have signed books available at Brownstone at a later date. Here are a few pics from … Read more