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Some alternate cover ideas for @DeniseVegaBooks great new book that pubs tomorrow! @randomhousekids

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Zachariah OHora: Picturebooking, Episode 72

Zachariah OHora is the author-illustrator behind the hilarious picture book THE NOT SO QUIET LIBRARY. This story has donuts, adult napping, misuse of a stapler, Wu-Tang references and eating books …

Nick Patton said he really likes “The Not So Quiet Library” but he also said he thought I could beat-up most people in kids books so uh...who knows what he thinks really. But I think he really gets it. Thanks for having me on the Podcast Nick- it was really fun.

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Part of a special hand out I illustrated for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Horrible Bear was featured in The Times UK this week!

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The O-Bear Mini-comic base on a true story!

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Repost for Tumblr. This weekend.

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My Cousin Momo  is the 2017 One Book, One Philadelphia choice for little kids!

Honored that Momo is grouped with these two other great selections on the them of Autism Spectrum Disorder. It blows my mind the creative ways that Librarians find books to aid in important discussions with kids and teens.

Especially when it isn’t anything that you thought of yourself. So hooray for librarians, hooray for people who are different and hooray for that little flying squirrel!

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Some alternate cover ideas for The Not So Quiet Library. For a time I was playing around with doing the whole book using the background photos of my actual childhood library. In the end the photos were used as reference and I painted the whole thing. 

I’ll be posting more of the old style spreads with photos soon.

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The IRL counterparts to our heroes Oskar & Theodore. “The Not So Quiet Library” is out today on Penguin books!  Can’t believe this book is finally out. Much of it is based on my childhood library back in Manchester, NH. Grab a copy at your favorite indy store or library.

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I’m going to be at the East Town Library next week in Berwyn, PA.

I’ll be giving a sneak peek reading of my upcoming book The Not So Quiet Library on sale July 19th.

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It’s that time of year again. Block Party Poster time.

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Pahk the Cah! and take the train instead!

Ame Dyckman and I will read and sign books at the Main Library. 11:30 AM

The Hubbub Festival in Copley Square. 

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Horrible Bear in the New York Times Books Review. Alongside friend and former studio mate Chris Silas Neal’s debut.