While I was away

While I was in Connecticut at Maurice Sendak's, my friend Steve Savage sent me this:

And my friend Gerardo Blumenkrantz this:

The Agony in the Kindergarten

The Sendak Fellowship

Miracle occurred in the woods of western Connecticut in the Fall of 2011, as visually recorded by Ali Bahrampour.

Pius Pelosi wishes you a good summer

Page from my book The Room of Wonders, published by Frances Foster in 2006.

The Story of Hansel and Gretel

Hallucinatory flowers

In her very generous review of Tweak Tweak on The Horn Book, Martha Parravano suggests to "check out those hallucinatory flowers." 

Here's a sampler.

Some elephants I like

Little Elephant and her mom, from Tweak Tweak.

An old Steiff elephant on wheels.

From a medieval English manuscript.

A grass family.

Babar, of course.

Found on eBay.

From Arnold Lobel's Uncle Elephant.

Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme. Flanders or Utrecht, circa 1450-1500.