Hopefully you are all out enjoying your last minute holiday shopping.

I'm trying to finish a new picture book, "Grumpy Goat". This is one of many not quite finished pictures. I'll have a few more to show soon. Happy Holidays.

Upcoming Event

Please join us at Pink Olive in Park Slope for the first ever Milk + Bookies store event in Brooklyn! Milk + Bookies is a non-profit organization that exposes children to how great it feels to give back while celebrating the love of a good book. By inviting children to donate a new book to children who have none of their own, Milk + Bookies inspires a new generation of philanthropists while supporting literacy efforts. There will be story time readings by three very special children’s book authors listed below, and of course, milk and cookies!

Pink Olive, in launching its new foundation, feedforlife.org, will match all book donations that day! From Pink Olive, the books will go to Madison Square Boys & Girls Club of NYC who will distribute the books to needy children around the city.

Story Time Readings in order of appearance:

11am - Sally Lloyd-Jones: Author of How to Be a Baby by Me Big Sister

12pm - Brett Helquist: Author/illustrator of Bedtime for Bear; Brett will conduct a drawing activity as well, teaching children how to draw a bear.

1pm - Caitlin Friedman: Author of How Do You Feed a Hungry Giant?

I'll be signing books and reading at Book Court in Brooklyn tomorrow at 11:00 AM.

I know this is very late notice but I hope you can make it.

Here's a link for the details. http://www.bookcourt.org/category/events/

I'll be reading and signing "Bedtime for Bear" in Salt Lake City this weekend at the King's English. Here a link for all the details.

http://www.kingsenglish.com/event/brett-helquist-and-bedtime-bear.

I hope to see some of you there.

Hello everyone, I'll be reading and signing my new picture book "Bedtime for Bear" at the Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn at the end of this month. The details are below. I hope to see you there.

Hello, everyone. I haven't posted anything for a ridiculously long time. I've been trying to meet some difficult deadlines and have been chained to the drawing table for the last several month.

I am now seeing a little light at the end of the tunnel. Here's what I've been working on.

First a great book by a new author, Jennifer Trafton, called "The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic published by Dial.

It was a real pleasure to illustrate.

I have also illustrated new editions of Alvin Schwartz's "Scary Stories to tell in the Dark", published by Harper Collins.

Here are a few images.

Hello everyone,

I apologize for being away for a while. I've been buried trying to finish a new picture book, the second for me as author and illustrator. It's called "Bedtime for Bear". I'm finally finished. The book will be out next year. Here are a couple of the paintings. Happy New Year.