Monster Party The spooky season is full of ghosts & goblins, mummies & monsters. In this picture book, I teamed up with the amazingly talented Tim Palin to show young artists how to draw some of those ghoulish creatures using numbers. Oh, and this book was also set to music by Emily Arrow!
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Magic E
Start the New Year will a little magic from Magic E. He’s a wizard who knows some word trickery. With an E, he can change a cap into a cape, a tub into a tube, a cod into a code, and send Tim the porcupine back in time. Chuck the Duck Was a Cool Dude:… Continue reading Magic E
Jokes and Jingles
When my sister’s boys were just little guys, we’d go on summer camping trips. With three nephews and three uncles, it was a great bonding time. And one of the things we bonded over was telling and making up jokes. On of my faves: Q: What do you do if you get swallowed by an elephant?… Continue reading Jokes and Jingles
Sound It Out!
In my writing career, I’ve been lucky. I have had the opportunity to write a lot of fun, exciting books, from graphic novels about space aliens to chapter books about monsters. I especially enjoy writing silly stories, and nothing I’ve published yet quite tops the four books in my Sound It Out! series for pure goofiness. Each of these… Continue reading Sound It Out!
STEM songs
My wife is a STEAM specialist. That’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) with an Art component. And one of my publishers, Cantata Learning, was looking for some science type songs. I thought that would be a great opportunity for me to collaborate with Katie as she also has a music degree and is a… Continue reading STEM songs
The Muffin Man—Review
From the Tangled Tunes series of Cantata Learning, “The Muffin Man” is a delightful storybook/music/CD combo package that sets the scene for the song story about “The Muffin Man,” who bakes and sells delicious muffins, and lives on Drury Lane. Bright, comical, stylized illustrations reminiscent of the 50’s and 60’s decorate each page of treasured… Continue reading The Muffin Man—Review
The Adventures of Big Blue and the Capt’n
A project I had been working on this summer has finally come to fruition, and just in time for Christmas! The Adventures of Big Blue and the Capt’n, with Hari the Tiger, is a picture book I cowrote with Ben Young, a worldwide adventurer who has a deep desire to help educate people about the… Continue reading The Adventures of Big Blue and the Capt’n
Chocolate Chimpanzees
Here is a little bit of silliness, a sketch from my song Chocolate Chimpanzees. It is part of a series of tunes based on letter blends, and this one is chock full of chuckles. Two chimps join a chicken on a quest for a treasure chest. They meet a chili eating chinchilla, a checkers-playing chihuahua,… Continue reading Chocolate Chimpanzees
Knock Knock Moo!
Ever since I wrote my first graphic novel, Matthew Henson, Arctic Explorer, I have been fascinated with the format. Sure, some of that has to do with me reading Spider-Man and Batman comics as a youngster. And part of it is that I wish I was better a better artist because I’ve always wanted to… Continue reading Knock Knock Moo!
Math Saves the Day!
Only once before, for the book War in Afghanistan, have I co-written with someone. That project was easy, as I worked with a long-time friend and we were able to divide up the writing by chapters. All went smoothly. I was a little more worried, though, about a recent batch of songs I had pitched.… Continue reading Math Saves the Day!