Travel Time

One week on the road, three climate zones, ONE CARRY-ON. (I owe this to @roccoart , who made me do a two-week tour for “Big Machines” with a carry-on. #lessonlearned ) Bye! ✈️🌎

Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site

Turn off your engines, stop your tracks,
Relax your wheels, your stacks, and backs. 
No more huffing and puffing, team:
It’s time to rest your heads and dream. 💤🌙

Busy Days!!!

Please check out my Celebrate You Book Tour Dates

Sherri Visit at B&N Orland Park

Hey Sherri Fans…check out Sherri’s new book Celebrate You! at a B&N Book store event on March 8th.

Celebrate You!

Celebrate You! 🎈debuts ONE WEEK FROM TODAY!!! 🎉

Funny

This made me laugh — for an unreasonable amount of time. 😂(Hubby did not find it that funny, but I’m telling myself that he just didn’t see the joke.)

Sweet Memories

Any WV friends out there? Reminds me of those old country roads and all my memories there. ❤️ My sweet old dog is with me here, at least.

Home Library

Look at this beautiful idea: When there isn’t space to allocate a separate room for a library, this hallway offers a pretty spectacular solution. 😍

Hmmm?

So, my 18yo comes to the dinner table and sits down with this beverage, as if it’s the most normal thing in the world. 😳🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

The Whole Wide World and Me

THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD AND ME, by my good friend, Toni Yuly, debuts TODAY! ☀️ ❤️ 📚 •
Kirkus: "Eye-catching, perspective-shifting illustrations pair beautifully with simple text to embrace a child's world. . . "Her unbridled joy at interacting with the natural world is infectious, and readers won't be able to keep their own smiles hidden for long. . . "A story that ends as it begins—colorful, peaceful, and just right for the very youngest naturalists. . 

So Sweet

My neighbor asked me to let her dog out... but Bentley cried so hard when I tried to leave 😢, I just brought him to my house.

Daytona 500

A photo from yesterday’s wreck-filled Daytona 500. At some point, you have to wonder, “Why don’t they just make the cars out of duct tape in the first place?” 🤷🏻‍♀️

Beautiful Midwest Morning

The view on a Midwest February morning. ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ 

Harold Snipperpot's Best Disaster Ever

I am in LOVE with #beatricealemagna and her fresh, expressive style. Her book, “On A Magical Do-Nothing Day,” stopped me DEAD in my tracks at ALA a couple of years ago. SO, when I saw THIS book, I had to have it!!! 🐘 That title. Those illustrations. The fun, farcical story. Come ON — I’m melting! (She had me at “Harold Snipperpot.”)

Exciting News!

Woohoh! Happy to announce I’ll be illustrating a book called JOY RIDE written by New York Times bestselling author Sherri Duskey Rinker with @candlewickpress ! Very excited for this one! Stay tuned frendos! Happy Valentines!💖 #childrensbooks 🚲 #picturebooks

Still Pretty

Sunlight through hydrangeas. I never cut them down before winter... even on an 8° February morning, they make me happy!

Adorable

When he proudly gave me this preschool art project for Valentine’s Day ten years ago, I told him it was absolutely BEAUTIFUL and that we’d hang it up every year. ❤️

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine’s Day! — from A.N. Kang’s endearing cast of characters in our upcoming book, “Celebrate You.” Debuts March 5th, Balzer+Bray.

So Pretty

There are few things more frustrating than when you can’t make the camera see what you see. 😢 Today, every limb of every tree was coated in a layer of ice, so, with the sunshine, the world looked like it had been dipped in diamonds. 💎 I’ve lived in the Midwest my entire life, and I’ve never seen anything like it; it was so dazzlingly beautiful. 

Celebrate You!

“First you crawled, then you walked, then you ran — now you FLY! Nothing can stop you when you aim for the sky!” 🎈 Celebrate You! debuts March 5th! Illustrated by A.N. Kang, Published by Balzer+Bray