Why, hello there, friends! It’s been a while, hasn’t it?
Since I took a step back from music journalism late last year, I’ve been hiding away at home to focus on my life as a full-time author-illustrator. It’s been really tough, to be honest, getting the chance to actually do the thing you’d always dreamed of your entire life. But man, oh man, has it been sooooo cool!
So here we are!
I’m super excited to finally share with you the cover of my first picture book, BIGGER THAN ME. Written by Erica Simone Turnipseed, BIGGER THAN ME follows a sweet story of two siblings who band together with the neighborhood kids to better understand the big words that are thrust upon them through crafts and play. This book was drawn entirely on Procreate, which inevitably led to an increase in iPad time over the past couple of months.
Check out the cover and what the book is all about below:
Children discover the impact they can have when they band together in this picture book ode to how solidarity lifts everyone up.
Siblings Luna and Zion are feeling a bit overwhelmed. Big words keep rushing at them: Homelessness. Pandemic. Inequality. Recession. Unemployment.
They don’t understand the words, but grown-ups do, and the siblings can see how upset the words make them. Wanting to understand the words themselves, Luna and Zion spell them out with building blocks, but the words’ weight sends the blocks tumbling. So they recruit other kids to help them. Many hands make light work, and as the words are constructed from any materials the children can find, the words themselves grow lighter, and change: Equality. Kindness. Compassion. Liberty. Democracy. Freedom. Hope.
The words are still big, but not as heavy—ones everyone can carry, if we carry them together.
BIGGER THAN ME hits shelves on 12 September 2023.
Add BIGGER THAN ME to your Goodreads lists. Pre-order here.