The Miss-Adventures of YaYa and Leen After months of creating and illustrating, I’m almost ready to launch my new children’s picture book! My first book, Sunbelievable, took several years to produce, but I Want Cake! emerged in under 1 year. Why so much less time? With Sunbelievable, I had to …
6 Tips for Creating Digital Illustrations
Wondering How to Create Your Own Illustrations? With a few technical tools, you can create illustrations for picture books, social media banners, blog posts, and much more! Use your own photographs to construct your own, one-of-a-kind images. Take the image on the left, for example. Change …
Children’s Book Illustrating – Killer Simple Award-Winning Ideas for Authors
Ever wonder how to make a children's picture book without hiring an expensive illustrator? In the past year, my first picture book, Sunbelievable, earned 6 top awards for story and illustrations. No one is more surprised than I am! Why? Because I have no formal art instruction/training. None! So …
Bloggers Read Across the Globe (BRAG) – Children’s Reading and Literacy Resources
Welcome to Day #6 of Bloggers Read Across the Globe (BRAG) -- Promoting Children's Literacy and Reading Children's Literacy Headline: On tests involving 4,500 to 10,000 students in 43 countries, half of the girls said they read for at least thirty minutes a day, compared with less than one-third of …
Sunbeliveable Wins 2 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards !
WOO HOO!!! Is this my life? Just received 2 First Place 2012 Purple Dragonfly Awards for Sunbelievable. That's 6 national awards for 2012. But who's counting! Purple Dragonfly Book Awards Book Contest for Children's Books The Purple Dragonfly Book Awards honor published authors of children's …
Sunbelievable Author Jo Ann Kairys at Book Expo America: June 5, 2012
Are You Going to Book Expo America 2012? I'm getting ready for the annual Book Expo America (BEA) in NYC - June 5-7! Especially excited for Tuesday, June 5 and 2 big events at the Mom's Choice Awards Exhibit: 1) 11:00 AM Filmed Interview 2) 1:00 - 2:00 PM Book Signing The timing is great! …
