A book I illustrated, written by Lindsay Bonilla, for Nancy Paulsen imprint series at Penguin Random House. Publishing date: March 2024. To order, please go here.
The Storyteller is included in Bank Street's 2025 edition “Best Children's Books of the Year List”, and recognized as a book of "Outstanding Merit." The list includes more than 600 titles chosen by the Children’s Book Committee as the best of the best published in 2024. In choosing books for the annual list, reviewers consider literary quality and excellence of presentation as well as the potential emotional impact of the books on young readers.
“The Storyteller” was selected for 2025 “Choose to Read” Ohio booklist by State Library of Ohio.
Starred review for “The Storyteller” by Kirkus reviews, 2024
Illustrations from the book have were part of the NYC Society of Illustrators’ “The Original Art 2024” exhibition, showing in NYC and in the children’s book fair in Bologna, 2025.
Early stage character design