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Tenth Annual Brooklyn Children's Book Fair / photos

Photos from the 10th Annual Brooklyn Children's Book Fair! Thank you Brooklyn Museum for a fashion-filled Saturday!

photo credit: Creative Cookie Interns Sophia D., Carmen, and Emily L.

DIY Business Cards

Here's Sophia D., our Jr. intern, quickly creating business cards before The Brooklyn Museum Children's Book Fair on Saturday. She used:

• photo copies of the Style File book cover;
• star printed fabric with plastic overlay;
• glue stick + scissors; and
• a little sequin!

What can you DIY for your business, blog, or special project? Go ahead and get creative! 

'My Fab Fashion Style File' New York Times Plug

Good News! My latest book 'My Fab Fashion Style File' was mentioned in today's New York Times in conjunction with the 10th Annual Brooklyn Museum Children's Book Fair. The event is tomorrow, 11/12, and It's going to be great. I hope you can attend! Pick up a copy or read it online.

Happy 11/11! Make some magic happen.

Excuse my chipped nail polish -- it's been a long week!

Tenth Annual Brooklyn Children's Book Fair / SATURDAY

This Saturday the Brooklyn Museum will host it's 10th Anniversary Children's Book Fair - yay! I'm honored to be listed alongside over 50 Brooklyn authors and illustrators for the 2nd year in a row. I'll be hosting an original activity from My Fab Fashion Style File, with some of my favorite young fashionistas, should be fun! Read more about it here! Please save the date or share please.

Brooklyn Museum Children's Book Fair

November 12th, noon - 4p, Rubin Pavilion

200 Eastern Parkway

Brooklyn, NY 11238

Artwork by Ida Pearle

 

Scars Are Pretty Too

In July, Teen Vogue ran a piece by Sue Williamson titled Meet 5 Models with Facial Scars. I found the piece to be very inspiring and decided to start drawing all my model sketches, in my Style File, with scars. Here are a few:

 

Everyone has scars. They should be celebrated as beauty too. On my right arm there are three burn marks, in the form of little lines, that I got when I was five. I was trying to help my mom with a sewing project. These are my favorite scars because they validate my career. Whenever people ask about them I'm always proud to tell the story of the 1st time I used an iron. Ouch!

What healed scars will you celebrate?

Bound: Work Your Way to A Book Deal

It's been magical to have 2 books! Sometimes I sit and stare like 'how did this happen'? Which is the question I'm asked often by aspiring authors. My friend Nicole A. Taylor, author of the UpSouth Cookbook, and I started a workshop series called Bound earlier this year. Bound is our stories, tips and secrets on how we worked our way to getting our book deals. We want to inspire others. It's not easy to come up with a concept, find a publisher, find an agent, and then write it but it's totally doable!  

We're working on new formats to present Bound and even taking it on the road in 2017! Please email me if you are interested in learning more (or you can wait for the announcements coming soon:).

photo by Kamau Ware