![]() ![]() Secondly, unlike many other subjects I’ve written and/or illustrated about-Willie Mays, Effa Manley, George Moses Horton, John Roy Lynch-Lonnie Johnson is still living. ![]() For one, although I’ve illustrated digitally for more than 20 years for editorial and educational publishing, Whoosh! was my first fully digitally illustrated trade picture book. I’ve illustrated many picture books and picture book biographies, but this book was different than others. As of today, it has garnered two starred reviews, in addition to becoming a Junior Library Guild Selection. ![]() Today marks the publication of our second collaboration: Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions(Charlesbridge). Our first collaboration, The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch (Eerdmans, 2015), published last April, 2015. That meeting began a friendship that would last well into the future and result in the collaboration of two picture books. Sometime in the early 2000s, I received an email from writer Chris Barton inviting me to lunch. ![]()
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