Following Up with Greg Pizzoli

As a follow-up to my chat with author-illustrator Greg Pizzoli at Kirkus last week (where I learned what Rubylith is), I’ve got a bit more of his process images from Margaret Wise Brown’s North, South, East, West, coming to shelves this month from Harper.
Enjoy!






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“And then they would fly home to their nest in the sycamore tree
and she would sing her a song. …”
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“She sat on a rock by the edge of the sea. …”
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NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST. Copyright © 2017 by Roberta Brown Rauch. Illustrations © 2017 by Greg Pizzoli. Published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, New York. All images here reproduced by permission of Greg Pizzoli.