Caricatures, Silhouettes and Illustrations by Leona Hosack

 This is an interesting video about a website that offers a more interactive way for your child to enjoy ebooks, as well as another way for children's book authors and illustrators to have their work published. You can record you voice to be heard by the child while they look at the ebook! What will they think of next! Check it out here:  http://ripplereader.com/ Here are a few illustrations I did a while ago, plus two illustrations (below) from my upcoming picture book, Kamal's Day to be released soon from Bellwood Press, an imprint of the US Baha'i Publishing Trust. This is an illustration I did a few years back for the Core Curriculum Series of Books  put out by The National Spiritual Assembly of Baha'i of the US. The sketch for the finished piece above. This is from my picture book Kamal's Day! Snack time at Children's  class! Clean up time. Even the dog helps!

Here is a great video by Will Terry a well-known Illustrator and Writer of Children's books, and teacher of Illustration talking about the worth of self-publishing your own children's books as ebooks on Amazon.com. Makes me think about all the possibilities!! My Submission to Illustration Friday this week. The theme is Energy, and this girl has a lot of it! And so does her cat! I wish I did! Here are two more illustration from my upcoming picture book, Kamal's Day, soon to be released by The US Baha'i Publishing Trust. This project that Kamal is doing will be included in the back of the book! Kamal doing a project at Baha'i children's class that he later gives to a friend! He's making a serving tray by gluing tissue paper on to a recycled meat tray! These  are two examples of the finished serving trays that resulted when I actually did this project with a children's class I once taught!