NEWS!!!
March 17, 2023
Starring Steven Spielberg is nominated for the 2023-24 Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Awards in the Intermediate division.
It will be read to or by students across the state during the 2023-24 school year. Kids vote on their favorite and the winners are invited to the KSLA Annual Conference.
If you’d like a copy: Amazon
If you’d like a signed copy, order here: Children's Book World
February 02, 2023
NEW PAPERBACKS!!!
Just in time for Black History Month. Wherever books are sold!
December 21, 2022
STARRED REVIEW!!!
Thank you, School Library Journal for the wonderful Starred Review for “Starring Steven Spielberg: The Making of a Young Filmmaker.”
If you’d like a copy: Amazon
If you’d like a signed copy, order here: Children's Book World
December 3, 2022
Join me at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute in BrynMawr, PA. I'll be talking about my book, "Starring Steven Spielberg: The Making of a Young Filmmaker" after the 1pm screening of The Fabelmans! Here’s a link: SCREENING
I will also be signing books provided by CHILDREN'S BOOK WORLD
Three Stooges Cameos! Well, it all started in 2007, when I gave stooge haircuts to the cows in “Dear Deer.” Since then, The 3 Stooges have appeared in seven of my books. See if you can spot them.
I have a tradition here in the studio. Whenever I do a picture-book biography I search out items to inspire me, including little figures. Here are my bio subjects to date. Ben Franklin, John F. Kennedy, Muhammad Ali, Thomas Edison, George Washington Carver, Abraham Lincoln and Leonardo Da Vinci. Ok, I took liberties with the Kennedy and Lincoln figures! 4 of the 7 books have not yet been released.
Fellow Authors and Illustrators at Children’s Book World. L-R: J Byron Schachner, Zach OHora, Adam Lehrhaupt, Amy Ignatow, Monica Carnesi, Ame Dyckman, Brian Biggs, Hannah Schwartz, Gene Barretta, Jerry Spinelli, Peter Catalanotto and Eileen Spinelli. Not pictured – David Wiesner.