I’ve been posting a lot of cheerful/cute found object art on social media lately. More recently, I was trying to work with some grass seed heads as a squirrel tail (before I started drawing) and it kept disintegrating on me. And I thought, “IT FIGURES THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN ON A . . .
Eek. Did you know that Japan has squirrel gardens?!? One of the best known is Machida Risu-en, which apparently has over 200 squirrels running rampant. (Thanks to Michelle Henninger-Ainscough for the link.)
Glad to hear I’m not the only one whose electrical power has been nixed as a result of squirrel sabotage. Check out this New York Times article for more proof that squirrels are taking over the world. Photo: t-shirt that my friend Mary Crowell gave to me years back. Thanks to all my friends who forwarded the NYTimesBoingBoing link!
Eek!!! According to this post on Bleeding Cool, production has yet to start. Thanks to my friend Ray Vankleef for the link.
Thanks to my friend Peter Alway for sharing the video above on my Squirrels Are Evil And Taking Over The World Facebook Page.
DOLL BONES Written by Holly Black Illustrated by Eliza Wheeler Published by Margaret K. McElderry Books / Simon & Schuster Children’s (May/2013) Also see Debbie’s Reading Journal as well as Debbie’s Bookstagram.
From Sun-Gazing.com. Thanks to Alex von Thorne for the heads-up! It’s obvious that the squirrel’s True Nature was drawn to this mask (“it callsssss to me…”). And now I’m going to go to bed with images of a squirrel army wearing these masks as they invade. Thanks so much, Alex!
The I’M… picture books are written by Michael Ian Black and illustrated by Debbie Ridpath Ohi, published by Simon & Schuster. Curious about how this series was created? Here’s a behind-the-scenes peek for young readers. When I asked Michael what inspired him to write the first book in the series, . . .