Children's Tuesday: Happy Valentine's Day From Some Great Illustrators!

Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner.
Skippyjon Jones' Website
Judy is coming to Provo in May for the Provo City Library's Children's Book Festival!

Harold from Upsidedown: A Vampire Tale by Jess Smart Smiley,
coming October 2012 from TopShelf Comics!
And Jess is local! Maybe he'll come to the PCL Children's Book Festival too!
Jess' Website

by Nathan Hale
who ALSO might be at the PCL CBF (he came last year)!
Nathan's Website

A few Dueling Banjo Pigs valentines!

  Banjo Pigs' Blog & past Book Adventures post.

 by Guy Francis
Local! And HE may be at the PCL CBF too (another of last year's participants)!

Guy's Website

by Stacy Curtis.
Stacy sometimes visits locally because he's a super bro with several of the Utah illustrators!
Stacy's Website

Below are several special cards designed for Save the Children organization.

Olivia! by Ian Falconer.
Olivia's Website

by Mo Willems
Mo's Website

by Brian Selznick
Brian's Hugo Cabret Website

Freckelface Strawberry by LeUyen Pham.
LeUyen's Website

Lily (from Lily's Purple Plastic Purse) by Kevin Henkes
Kevin's Website

Below are a couple of book cover that double as great Valentine's!

Curious George by H. A Rey

Curious George's Website

Splat by Rob Scotton
Rob's Website

And here's a little something from me that I doodled years ago.

Drawn while working at Shenanigans Toys in VA, inspired by Tomie dePaola's book I Love You, Sun; I Love You, Moon.
I hope I got the Spanish right!
(You can see more of my artwork here)

I love you all &
Happy Valentine's Day!