I’m seeking I’M BUSY reader photos to add to the Reading I’M Picture Books In The Wild gallery. You may win a prize!
More info and link to the submission form here.
How do YOU discover books? Have your reading habits changed over the past year? Please help book creators by taking a few minutes to answer my informal, anonymous, multiple-choice survey – thank you!
Excited to announce that I’ll be illustrating two more Judy Blume titles being reissued by Atheneum / Simon & Schuster Children’s!
More details and some reminiscing in today’s blog post.
Look what just arrived! A single, precious copy of I’M BUSY by Michael Ian Black and me, along with a sweet note from our editor at Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, Justin Chanda.
Our new book launches Feb. 24, 2026!
Shortlisted for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, I WANT TO READ *ALL* THE BOOKS is my love letter to books and reading, with visual nods to the Toronto Public Library (including TPL’s Palmerston branch, where I worked) and Toronto indie bookstores like Mabel’s Fables.
Interior illustrations include my parents, who used to take me and my siblings to the library every week.
Read more here about my book, as well as how the book was made.
I’ve decided to make it a goal to visit all 100 branches of the Toronto Public Library, and will be posting about my quest on social media via the hashtag #100Branches.
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In this fifth book in the series from New York Times bestselling author Michael Ian Black and celebrated illustrator Debbie Ridpath Ohi, a flamingo, a girl, and a potato tackle what it’s like to feel super-busy-all-the-time. Launches from Simon & Schuster on Feb. 24, 2026! So much to do and so little . . .
Thanks to Helen Kubiw and Karen Krossing for these fun “I’m Busy” photos! I’ll be adding them to my “Reading the I’M… picture books in the wild” Reader Gallery on Pinterest, and would love to add yours, too. For guidelines and to submit your photo, please use this I’M…Reader Gallery . . .
Shortlink to this post: debbieohi.com/reading2026 If you have a few minutes to spare, I would appreciate you taking my (very) informal survey on book reading and book discovery. The survey is anonymous and multiple choice, plus a free-form comment box for anything else you’d like to tell me: 2026 Book . . .
Any other bullet journal fans out there? I usually prep my annual bullet journal in December, but the holiday season was unusually hectic for me and I ended up working through most of it. The page layout above is the one I’ve settled on after a lot of experimenting with . . .