One more from the dummy...

For the dummy I like to keep the sketches rather loose.  I may want to leave a lot of the line work in this one as well.  The thick and thin lines add so much movement to the piece.  This is one half of a double page so there is no text needed here.

New dummy under construction

Since I have sent out the dummy I worked on for most of the last few months, I will begin this second one while I wait patiently for some type of response on the one I just sent out.
Here is a quick sketch ... but I can't give away the story. I will say that there is a surpise ending that just cracks me up.  If the sketch looks familiar, and it might, that is because I have been coming and going with the manuscript for over a year now. I finally love it, so the dummy will come next.  At some point this story will find a home.

Happy Chinese New Year ~ Gung Hay Fat Choy!

The Year of the Rabbit has begun.  To learn more about the Chinese year of the Rabbit Click Here.

Can a mouse Cook?

Can a Mouse cook?   If he has the right book!

And now for something completely different

©Ginger Nielson

This is a scene from a dummy I have been juggling for a year or more. I have changed the story but the characters remain the same, they just keep asking for script changes.

A Few Winners!

IF Wishes Were Fishes by N. A. Sharpe, Illustrated by Ginger Nielson    ISBN 978-0982588673
Why oh Why do grownups say such silly things?  JT has a hard time understanding why some grown ups don't  mean exactly what they are saying!

A Wish and A Prayer, by Beth Bence Reinke, pictures by Ginger Nielson                                    ISBN 978-0-9826423-1-3
When Jason's pet parakeet flies off out the window, Jason is desperate to get him back.  After a number of ideas are presented to him by his friends, he realizes the difference between a wish and a prayer.

In My Bath, by Beth Bence Reinke, illustrated by Ginger Nielson- ISBN 978-0982588666
Bath time is so much more fun when you can share it with a manatee, a penguin, a dolphin, or a tortoise..and many more creatures.

I was really excited to see that these three books placed in the top ten for the Preditors & Editors Readers Poll this year.  All of these books were published by 4RV publishing in Oklahoma. They are really fun books for children and all can be purchased via the publisher's website,Amazon.com, or any and all bookstores.  I added the ISBN numbers in case  you want your bookstore to order any of these.

As the illustrator for all three I am also equally excited to have placed fourth among all the artist's who were considered in the voting.

All the results can be seen on the 4RV PUBLISHING LLC publisher's page.

  You will see a number of other 4RV books in the standings.

And more great books for children are coming soon from this publishers.  Watch for the news.  One of those books is my own story and I have been waiting ten years to tell it!

And so it goes

The snow it snows and snows and snows, the wind it blows and blows and blows, and so does my nose...

The penguin is warming up his ice pod for Bunny Week. The  Chinese Year of the Rabbit begins on Feb 3 and all are invited to the FB page of Illustration Board to post your bunnies!

Click here to get the link to the FB page.