Two Weeks until the Book Launch!

I hope you're as excited as we are! Only two weeks away before we release the Girls Who Can book on Saturday the 25th, and still plenty of things to do. My wife Katie is putting together the last details on the craft that children who visit will be able to try. Do you have any suggestions? We'd like to keep any crafts picked related to the concept of the colouring book, and something that is easy for kids to pick up and potentially complete off site.

With that in mind, we've some mini-colouring books we've completed and assembled for kids to play with, featuring bonus portraits of some of the girls and the careers featured in Girls Who Can.

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Book Launch date fixed in Kingston, Ontario

We'll be having the Launch at the Minotaur Games and Gifts store February 25th from 2pm to 4pm at 165 princess street! We'll be putting up a link to download this awesome poster sometime this week!

Published Essential Dream Jobs for Girls!

It's official! With a new eye-catching and dynamic cover design, the Essential Dream Jobs for Girls Who Can colouring book is finally available on lulu.com for purchase. It's update includes a fun labyrinth at the back of the book for intrepid girls to navigate.

We'll be having a book launch for the book tentatively pegged for late February, with fun foodstuffs and crafts at the Minotaur Games and Gifts. Return here for new news!

Girls Who Can book nearing publishing date!

One of the colouring books I've been working on for much of the past year looks to be near completion. I received a sample copy of the Essential Dream Jobs for Girls Who Can on Friday from my manufacturer, and except for a few dabs of polish, it is ready for purchase. And it is totally worth it!

As a parent of two little girls inundated by pink-aisle toys and products, I felt a need for a book that presented the variety of futures my kids could aspire to, real or imagined. Do they want to be a doctor, an astronaut, or a dragon when they grow up? This book makes it feel like anything is possible for those who have the mindset to try.

Expect this new colouring book to be available sometime this week or the next. I'll post up a link to it's home online, and a list of all the dream jobs portrayed in the book.

An August/September update

In July I mentioned a "Fun on the Farm" colouring book that was coming down the pipe. The good news is the new books will have a new format, still spiral-bound to open flat, and will be easily twice the size of the current books for approximately the same price. The bad news is the larger size has encouraged me to make new illustrations to take advantage of the larger format, which has in turn delayed the book's release. This has done nothing to reduce my enthusiasm for the new book.

The illustration above is from a colouring book that I should publish at near the same time as "Fun on the Farm", which'll promote Girl Power. Spefically, it will speak to every girl's ability to do and accomplish anything they put their minds and imaginations to- which has resulted in some real powerhouse images. I'm putting together some new illustrations to take advantage of the new colouring books' 6" by 9" format for this book as well (!!).

Under the Sea Pirates!

I've a show coming up at the Minotaur Games and Gifts in downtown kingston. I can't seem to find a babysitter (!), so I've drawn some extra New colouring book pages to keep them occupado. Pretty cool pictures, huh? The show, as well as these colouring pages is undersea themed. If you'd like to colour these guys in, you might have to drop in, from 6pm to 9pm Wednesday the 20th of July.

The walrus above is doing his best Long John Silver impression, right down to the penguiny parrot on his shoulder.

Who says pirates can't have "sole"? Or fish beards? Not this guy!

In case your wondering, those tendril like things hanging from the fish-pirate in the centre are hanging from a catfish. A fighting-mad catfish.

Drawing those fish out of water inspired me to draw these odd ducks.

A little update on the Farm themed colouring book I announced back in May- I have some other books down the pipe that have to be completed before archive and librarians canada will allow me more isbn numbers, so they should still be printed, probably next month at the most. Then we can all have fun on the farm together!

Fun On The Farm

I keep talking about working on new colouring books. Want to see some of them? Here are a few pages from the new Fun On The Farm I'm putting together. It's going to be good!

I like this one. To me, it says: "you're being so quiet down there, I just wanted to make sure you're okay."

I think these ducklings think their Daddy knows everything about being a duck. I hope so.

Fresh eggs are GREAT! We should have more.