The National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature

The incredible National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature in Abilene, TX will be hosting a retrospective exhibit of Dan Yaccarino's 20-years in children's books. The festivities begin on February 9.

FIVE LITTLE PUMPKINS wins a QED for Best eBook

Dan Yaccarino's “Five Little Pumpkins”, published by Harper Festival/Zuuka, has been selected as the winner of the Publishing Innovation Award in the Ebook Children’s category.

Local Boy Makes Good

Congratulations to our own John Rocco for the Caldecott Honor win for his book Blackout! 

Calling, Tweaking, and Blacking Out

At The Horn Book blog “Calling Caldecott” there is attention, appreciation, and medal speculation for two Book Maker’s Dozen titles: Blackout, by John Rocco, and Tweak Tweak, written by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier. 

Congratulations, John and Sergio, and good luck!

Wall Street Journal Best Books List

Sophie Blackall's The Crows of Pearblossom and John Rocco's Blackout both made the Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2011 list. We are thrilled to be among this great selection of books for children.

Missed Connections Party in Boston

Sophie Blackall will be at the Brookline Booksmith on Dec. 15 at 7pm to sign copies of Missed Connections: Love Lost & Found, a collection of her work. The Boston Globe’s Love Letters and the Booksmith are celebrating her visit by collecting local missed connections listings and hosting a party for readers at Finale in Brookline following the signing.

John Rocco and Jhumpa Lahiri at Book Court SUNDAY December 18

Please come out on Sunday at 11am to BookCourt join John Rocco and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Jhumpa Lahiri, for a special reading and signing of Blackout and The Flint Heart. This event will benefit the Brooklyn Waldorf School Library.

The All the Way to America Blog

Please visit and contribute to my new blog, the ALL THE WAY TO AMERICA BLOG!

THE BELLY BOOK!

THE BELLY BOOK is now available!!!

Click here to order: http://www.amazon.com/Belly-Book-Fran-Manushkin/dp/0312649584/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320606653&sr=8-1

An Evening With Dan Yaccarino!

I will be giving a presentation on my work in children's books, television, character design and commercial illustration on Monday October 24 at 6:30 at The Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. Admission is free! Hope you can make it.

For more info click here.

Five BookMakers hit the Carle this weekend

Please join John Rocco, Sophie Blackall, Sergio Ruzzier, Brian Floca and John Bemelmans Marciano, as they talk, read, draw and other nonsense at the Carle Museum this Sunday, October 16th starting at 11:30 am.

Every-Day Dress-Up hits the shelves today!

Selina Alko's EVERY-DAY DRESS-UP pubs today. Hip Hip Hooray!

Kirkus Reviews calls it, "a happy antidote to the princess plague".

For a preview of this girl power book, view Selina's book trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3TSpmiqiFc

Missed Connections Book Launch Party!

Please join me at Word bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, this Thursday, October 6th at 7pm to celebrate the launch of Missed Connections, Love, Lost and Found, my first illustrated book for grown ups. You can listen to a podcast about the project on NHPR here, see a slideshow on the Huffington Post here, or if you have your own Missed Connections experience, you can enter Time Out New York's competition here to have your story illustrated!

Blackout signing at Books of Wonder

Please join John Rocco, Bob Shea, Richard Egielski, Ron Barrett, Jackie Preiss Weitzman, and many more as we talk about and sign our new books at Books of Wonder this Saturday from 12-2.

Dan Yaccarino at Britain Elementary!

It's school visit season again, gang! Take a look at my new video taken at Britain Elementary in Texas.