Heather Ayris Burnell

Raven Tree Press has put up the media kit and activity sheets for Bedtime Monster! There's an interview with me in which I give too much...

Yes, I have been a bad blogger lately. Truth be told, John Lechner held up this blog last month and if it wasn't for him there wouldn...

I've been stoked to feature John Lechner as my Illustrator of the Month for April. John is a fabulous illustrator, writer, animator, and...

When you live on a dirt road, you tend to drive slowly. Dirt isn't the best surface and when there's only room for one car on the ro...

When writing a picture book it's good to dummy it up to see if there are enough unique scenes and good page turns. I've done it lots...

by John Lechner How does an illustrator create a world? There are many ways to do this, and every illustrator has their own individual tric...

Life is unpredictable. Yes, we all know that but I've really been experiencing it lately. The sheer amount of weird things happening in ...