Happy Holidays! It's the gift giving season and I recently learned about the Icelandic tradition of the "Christmas book flood". It's this amazing tradition where most of the country gives one another books at Christmas time. In fact, most the...
Happy book birthday to MAGIC LIKE THAT! This book publishes today and it's poetry by Samara Cole Doyan and illustrations by Geneva Bowers are just beautiful. I was honored to be the art director and designer on this project. The book...
So what's YOUR favorite color? One of these books has your name on it! There's a book for the fan of: RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, PURPLE, PINK, and even BLACK. I designed the interior of this series which is...
Happy 2021 all! I'm happy to share another children's picture book that I designed that's newly published this month. Meet Scooper and Dumper! This wintery tale is about friendship, individual strengths, teamwork, and those beloved snow plows and front loaders. When...
Happy Fall! Does this happen to you? Every once in awhile, the universe likes to remind me that I'm on the right path in my career and life and fills my heart with gratitude. This was one of those weeks. First,...
[caption id="attachment_6812" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Two children's book art directed by Abby Dening[/caption] Hi Friends! Where did this summer go? I really cannot believe we're in mid-August already. I have been busy digging up the bare garden beds around our house and planting...
{New book with custom hand-lettered textured title type} Books take months to produce and years to publish, so I sometimes loose track of publication dates of the book I designed. This happened to me recently with these 2 fun...
{2014 Caldecott winner} It's a big day in children's publishing. Today the American Library Association announced the winners for the Caldecott and the Newbery medals. This year both books actually featured illustrations too. YAY! You also might recall the...
My friend and I have started a new tradition. We are now meeting up about once a month or so and sharing our favorite illustrated books! A lot of the time they are illustrated picture books. It's delightful to ...
Yesterday around noon EST the 2013 Caldecott Medals were announced at the midwinter American Library Association in Seattle. Drum roll pleeeeeaaase...