Work on the Gracie Brave book continues. The authors have kicked off their kickstarter to help pay for the project and for it's next book, workbooks and materials for clinicians and parents to use with their children who suffer with depression. Here's the link if you are interested in learning more: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/366317998/gracie-brave?ref=card

Gracie and her mom fly to Phoenix to visit her Grandma and start an adventure. Have you ever flown over Phoenix? The aerial view is pretty fascinating - like a piece of Navajo jewelry.

A detail from a two page spread of Gracie running towards her Grandma in the Phoenix airport.

I went on a field trip this past weekend to NYC. While I was there I visited the Society of Illustrators Museum. It was a bit of a disappointment as I had my cousin and 13 year old daughter with us and the exhibition showing was all comic illustration some of which was pretty inappropriate for her to view. The only children's book illustration of note was spied at the top of a closed off staircase: