#middlegrade

Melissa Mathews in The Curious Classroom - Page 21

I had the pleasure of doing the cover and some b+w interior illustrations for The 66th Rebirth of Frankie Caridi by Johnny Marciano which was just released last week! I had a lot of fun with the swirling effect on this wraparound and a chance to get entirely carried away with a palette of greens.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, from Foodtopia and Aw, Nuts! Well, now we know what Jelly's favorite Thanksgiving food is.

Get your copy of the Aw, Nuts! middle grade graphic novel, newly released on November 4th, at the link below, or check it out on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Simon & Schuster!

Announcing a brand new series, years in the making! 

'Dayna Daydream Becomes A Lawyer' is for middle grade readers, featuring Dayna and her best friend Jenny Jitters. Dayna has a secret...she can be anything she wants, with a little touch of her golden cloud pendant.

But here's another secret: so can you! 

With cover, black and white illustrations and chapter headings by me, Jen Santavy cleverly chooses not to describe her main characters, so they can look whichever way you picture them. Maybe they look like you…maybe they look like the girl down the road…or maybe they look like no-one you’ve ever met! And the gentle ink-drawn illustrations mirror this idea, with none of them portraying Dayna and her nervous but adventure-loving best friend.

The cover had a lot of hand-drawn elements, including a paper cloud pendant and that starry background. All spray cans and scissors!

You can read about the series here on my site: www.inkymole.com/dayna-daydream

and look for @daynadaydreambooks on Insta, where almost daily updates and nuggets of info are happening.

Nodrik and his brother gnomes are older than most residents of Merrihaven. There is a rumor that they are older than Boggle Hole, which is quite old. No one really knows the life span of a gnome, because there’s no documentation. They do make a mean bog ale and it’s quite possible the answer lies within its ingredients.

Les clans du ciel - La quête d'Ellie (Skyborn 1 - Sparrow Rising) Jessica Khoury Jeunesse, Bayard, 2024