Bronte and His New Snake Squeak Toy

Happy Valentine's Day

After the Snowstorm

White-out

It appears as if two feet, more or less, of snow fell in our area. It's hard to gauge because the winds are so intense and have caused tall snow drifts.

Ah well, winter snow is good for the New Hampshire environment and New Hampshire economy. It's a weekend and we don't NEED to go anywhere.

Tomie returned Wednesday night from a week in NYC. Good timing. 

NYC Photo #9

Tomie met Sonali Fry at the SCBWI Conference in NYC. Sonali won the World Fruitcake Competition - announced on this blog on December 28, 2012.

Of lesser importance, Sonali is Editorial Director of Little Simon at Simon & Schuster. This is the first time they had met.

NYC Photo #8

Julie Andrews and her daughter,

Emma Walton Hamilton, and Tomie

at the SCBWI Conference.

NYC Photos #6 and #7

Emma Walton Hamilton and Tomie

at the SCBWI Conference

Emma Walton Hamilton creates children's books with her mother, Julie Andrews, in addition to many other activities.

NYC Photo #5

Tomie with Sean (left) and Ben (right) Hilts at the SCBWI Conference in NYC.

www.brothershilts.com

NYC Photo #4

Cecilia Yung (Art Director for G. P. Putnam's Sons and Nancy Paulsen Books) and David Ezra Stein pose with Tomie at the SCBWI Conference.

www.davidezra.com

NYC Photo #3

Lin Oliver is the co-founder of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She just arrived in NYC for the SCBWI conference. She took Tomie to see "The Book of Mormon" on Broadway last night. Nice friend.

NYC Photos #1 and #2

Chris Cheng, Tomie, David Diaz

Chris Cheng, David Diaz and Tomie saw each other in the lobby of the Grand Hyatt in New York City earlier today. They are at the Hyatt for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Conference.

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

"I Give Thee Love" © 1968 by Tomie dePaola

Betsy from California sent an envelope to Tomie, in 2007, with a letter and two photocopies. We only recently came across the envelope.

Betsy had purchased a hand-colored lithograph and an etching in 1968 at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire in Novato, California, from a small group of Renaissance costumed artists. The lithograph and the etching were created by Tomie dePaola. She now wondered if they were created by THE Tomie dePaola.

Tomie went to the Faire with a group of artists - all print makers. Tomie was attending California College of Arts and Crafts and teaching at San Francisco College for Women/Lone Mountain College. The group had made prints and sold them at the Faire. They even created artwork at the Faire.

Betsy remembered buying Tomie's works from a very tall man. Tomie said that one of the guys in his group was indeed tall.

This Faire was one of the first Renaissance fairs.

It's a wonderful story to hear from 45 years ago.   

Snizzle

A weatherperson on a Boston television station recently predicted "snizzle." We had never heard of the weather term. But, I think that's what we're experiencing right now. Snizzle.

I was walking the dog and there was drizzle at times, and there was snow at times, and there was "in between" at times. I think this must be snizzle!