http://wpblog.litajudge.com Lita Judge Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:23:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm excited to be on the homestretch painting for the Yellowstone Moran book. All the interior art is finished and I'm just starting the cover! Sasha has been supervising carefully as usual. I'll be attending the NEIBA convention in Boston this September. Hope to see any of you who may be ... http://wpblog.litajudge.com/2008/08/26/sasha-at-work/ Dave and I just returned from Yellowstone National Park. It was a fantastic trip!! I did a lot of field sketches and color studies, gathering reference to finish the final paintings on my book about Thomas Moran. Now I'm home completing the last of the paintings. This has been a ... http://wpblog.litajudge.com/2008/08/03/yellowstone-late-july/ I've been thinking of a new story idea based on an experience I had with a fawn when I was a little girl. I have little time to write lately as I'm working hard on the final illustrations for the Moran story, but often find myself daydreaming about the fawn ... http://wpblog.litajudge.com/2008/07/04/lots-of-visitors/ Lita spoke last week with Charity Nebbe, the host of Michigan Public Radio's All Things Considered. There's a link to the Michigan NPR page here. Or you can listen to the interview by clicking on the start button below: (It's about 6 minutes long -- please let me know if the ... http://wpblog.litajudge.com/2008/06/04/michigan-public-radio-interview/ We just received our first copy of Mogo, The Third Warthog! We're so excited that the book will be available soon -- by July 1st. This is the second Donna Jo Napoli book Lita has illustrated (the other one was Ugly). Here are a few of the interior illustrations: When Lita was ... http://wpblog.litajudge.com/2008/06/03/first-copy-of-mogo/ Lots going on lately -- outside the studio... and inside the studio... A friend of ours provided a caption for this picture of Pu: "Darwin kitty stays indoors today." It's fun to have a bear in the neighborhood again this spring. Lita and her parents have been following the adventures of bears for ... http://wpblog.litajudge.com/2008/05/23/spring-bear-adventures/ New England Voices: Three Area Authors Read from their New Books Free & Open to the Public Tuesday May 20, 2008 7:30 p.m. Join us for an evening of readings from Barbara O'Connor, Susan Goodman and Lita Judge Barbara O'Connor will read from her latest middle-grade novel Greetings from Nowhere. Barbara has written 14 ... http://wpblog.litajudge.com/2008/05/14/foundation-for-childrens-books/ Last week I joined Lita at her events, in Michigan and then in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Today, Lita is on her own and headed down to Atlanta for the International Reading Association Conference. She has a full and deserving schedule of dinners and parties in the evenings. The award luncheon is ... http://wpblog.litajudge.com/2008/05/06/ira-atlanta-itinerary/ The 2008 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, given by the Jane Addams Peace Association, were just announced last Friday from the Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois-Chicago. I am very, very proud that One Thousand Tracings received an honor! I'm looking forward to the awards ceremony at the United ... http://wpblog.litajudge.com/2008/04/27/jane-addams-childrens-book-awards/ I've just sent a pile of Pennies for Elephants artwork to my editor and art director. This is my next book with Hyperion—hopefully a spring/summer 2009 release. The story is based on the true event of Boston area children earning money to buy the first elephants for the zoo in ... http://wpblog.litajudge.com/2008/04/22/pennies-update/