The Licensing Nook

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I went to the Stationary and Surtex show in New York City a couple of weeks ago and had a great time. I haven’t been to the show in a quite a few years, so it was nice to go again. I really enjoyed looking at the booths, trends, and it was great to see some familiar faces too! I was happy to see my book, Tooth Fairy Tales – My record of each lost tooth at the Potter Style Booth, and it was also very cool to see my snail notecards at the Papyrus store on 5th Avenue!

My Book is in the middle of the second shelf up from the bottom.

It was so fun to see my notecards there!

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Happy Valentine’s Day!!!!

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Here’s a recent illustration I really enjoyed creating!

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Hope everyone had a nice holiday! Our was a nice one. A real white Christmas too with a blizzard following the holiday.

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Steve, Marin and I had a great time this weekend at the R. Michelson Gallery’s 21st annual Children’s Illustration Show in Norhampton, MA. Here’s a pic of some of the great author’s and illustrator’s who attended. Jane Yolen, Mo Willems, Tony Diterlizzi, Angela Diterlizzi, Barry Moser, Jane Dyer, Diane deGroat, Wendel Minor, Jarret Krosoczka, Scott Fischer, Raul Colon, Rebecca Guay, Gary Lippincott, David Milgrim, Norton Juster, Richard Michelson and many more. It was an amazing group of author’s and illustrators and I feel so proud to be in the photo with them all!

Posted By: Lesley

I had a wonderful time last night at the Premiere screening at Harvard of my husbands film about children’s books called Library of the Early Mind. It was great to see the film on the big screen and to be able to watch it with an audience. The panel discussion that followed with Lois Lowry, Leslea Newman, Jerry Pinkney, Padma Venkatraman, Roger Sutton and the filmmakers Edward J. Delaney and Steven Withrow was engaging. I’ll post some pictures from the night soon.

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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. -Henry David Thoreau

I love Henry David Thoreau’s mind set and have so many quotes of his that I would love to share. This quote is one that I had not read before and found particularly interesting. Seems to me that there is a lot of truth in ‘we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives’. Above is a cropped sample of some European houses I illustrated for a picture book biography that I am working on and hoping to get published. Here’s to making even deeper footprints! Have a great weekend.

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Here’s a cute kitty cat that I illustrated for an Oxford University Press course book earlier this year. My daughter’s favorite stuffed animal is a gray striped tiger cat named Tito, so of course I just had to get him into the book!

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Last weekend my husband, Steven Withrow, daughter and I drove down to Alexandria, Virginia for a preview screening of the film Library of the Early Mind, (which my husband is co-producer of). The screening was a part of the first annual Alexandria Story Festival benefitting a great organization, Wright to Read, and was held at an amazing children’s bookstore, Hooray for Books. The screening went well and the panel discussion following was lively. It was a real pleasure to meet authors Lezlie Evans and Melissa Thomson, as well as the organizer, Leigh Hoyer and her team, and the staff of Hooray for Books. It was a wonderful trip and a real joy for us to to attend it as a family!