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my 38th picture book... in the works! by steven salerno

To date, I’ve had 37 picture books published -and in August I just signed the contract to illustrate my 38th picture book! It’s for a new fiction story being produced by Penguin-Random House. This is my 10th picture book for Penguin-Random House. I won’t divulge the title of this new picture book quite yet, nor the name of the writer. (It’s the first picture book written by a prominent national newspaper editor and columnist.)

Right now I’m in the laborious sketch/story board stage, as well as creating many character sketches working out the look of the main characters in the story… like the sketch I’ve posted here depicting one of the main characters, a very British pig.

This is a just a little sneak peek…. I probably won’t post more on this picture book project until after I have completed all the sketches and all the final illustrations, at which time I’ll submit a post showing all the details in the entire process creating the final illustrations for this picture book.

Here’s a link to view all the picture books I’ve had published to date.

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"The Crayon Man" picture book wins the 2020 Irma Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature! by steven salerno

^ cover of The Crayon Man -The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons  …winner of the 2020 Irma Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature.

^ cover of The Crayon Man -The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons …winner of the 2020 Irma Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature.

WINNER OF THE 2020 IRMA BLACK AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

The Crayon Man -The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons (nonfiction) written by Natascha Biebow & illustrated by Steven Salerno -published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019.

The Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature (Irma Black Award) goes to an outstanding book for young children—a book in which text and illustrations are inseparable, each enhancing and enlarging on the other to produce a singular whole. The Irma Black Award is unusual in that children are the final judges of the winning book. Thousands of children in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and the United Arab Emirates participated in the voting process. Sadly, this year, the award ceremony scheduled for Thursday, May 14th 2020 was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

See the illustrations from The Crayon Man, illustrated by Steven Salerno

See how the illustrations for The Crayon Man were created by Steven Salerno