Hark! A Vagrant:

PLUSHIE KING BABIES ARE HERE

We wrapped up the King Baby school and store tour, thanks for a great two weeks to all these kiddos! King Baby is here, I’m going back to my polar bears and maple syrup in Canada. Might sketch a few more if they come to mind, kids throw things a mile a minute. I possibly want to work with them forever.

we are still rolling this King Baby train

We are touring King Baby in some schools and I love the kids

stjernfelt:

Alle på Raptus får Caroline Mathilde 👸🏼🌸✨

love her drawing, love her book!!

I’m visiting kids with King Baby, kindergarteners are pretty great

Good MORNING! Today is the big day!! 😊

An Embarrassment of Riches

While I’m telling you every day that I have a new book, my friends in the publishing world are knocking it out of the park, and this fall especially seems like an explosion of activity. The links are to Amazon for quick reference, but keep an eye out for these in stores and anywhere you like to get books. To have a new book in fall 2016 feels like I’m on a championship team. So I want to tell you what is up!

Cat Rackham by Steve Wolfhard

Cat Rackham is the beloved creation of a much loved cartoonist, and I’m over the moon that this book is coming out. Steve is a shining star of talent and his stories are full of feeling and humour and I can’t say enough good things about them. Basically everyone I know is pumped that a Cat Rackham book is finally here. Of course Koyama Press is publishing this book, because they publish the best.

Leave Me Alone by Vera Brosgol

To be a fan of Vera’s work is inevitable, all you have to do is look at something she made and you wish you made it yourself, then you follow everything she makes like a lost puppy. This book is so bright and funny and sassy and perfect, just perfect. And we all need some alone time, I feel that grandma. I still need alone time and I work from my house.

Burt’s Way Home by John Martz

I love this book. A little boy with a big imagination and a story taking on the joy of that imagination along with the sadness of life, while the reader figures out what is really on his mind, where Burt is trying to get to. It is a beautiful book.

Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North

This came out in the summer but I didn’t mention it much then, so I am making up for lost time. Ryan’s humour is among my most favourites, witty and clever and irreverent but always welcoming and fun.

Rolling Blackouts by Sarah Glidden

Sarah is one of my girls, of ole Pizza Island, famed Brooklyn studio that I miss terribly. I used to watch her work and listen to her talk about it, and her dedication to telling very human stories while always concerning herself about how to tell them right, for what purpose should she tell them, how to do it best, etc - I’ve always been impressed. She frames people’s voices beautifully in a journalistic sense, while using her own to guide you through the narrative with warmth, humour, empathy.

We Found a Hat by Jon Klassen

This book needs maybe the least introduction as Jon is the current picture book king even though he would hate that I said that. The “hat” books were always going to be a trilogy, so here is the final instalment at last. I’ve seen the way Jon works on picture books and I have never seen anyone apply so much theory, of image and text and idea, into it, so no wonder his books are such gems. He’s like, “I think this book is about the nature of human relationships” and I’m like “my book is about a farting horse.”

Du Iz Tak? by Carson Ellis

When I met Carson Ellis, I had been such a fan for such a long time that I tried to play it cool but I sincerely doubt it read that way in person, because I was probably sweaty-palming that handshake with a dose of nervous cackling and stammering. She’s the greatest. At Book Expo America where all the fall books were previewed last spring, I sent my friend Seth to go look at this book and he made a dotted line to her table and then a dotted line back to me and said I LOVE THIS BOOK in one fluid motion. You will love it too.

Octopus Pie by Meredith Gran

Not a fall release but a continuing one, this is, in my opinion, which is the correct opinion, the greatest comic series out there right now. I am ravenously reading every Octopus Pie update as the web series draws to a close and Meredith delivers her master strokes of storytelling, which floor me consistently. But the books are there to love forever! Another Pizza Islander being the greatest.