Babybug Magazine

© copyright Alicia Padrón 2013

I worked on these illustrations for Babybug magazine a while ago. I believe this was for the March 2013 issue, but only until now I was able to see them in person.

 © copyright Alicia Padrón 2013

© copyright Alicia Padrón 2013

Sorry about the not so great pictures, hehe. I had to illustrate different ethnic families on each page and had to make sure the sun was at different times of the day.

 © copyright Alicia Padrón 2013

© copyright Alicia Padrón 2013

I had fun with these! :o)

What We're Reading

Thankfully, I've been able to return to the library more often lately, so our book shelf is getting some good rotations again. Here's what makes our stacks lately:
Babybug and High Five magazines: Awesome content, and good for those short-attention-span moments. A 2 year old has so many of those. The bonus to the High Five was watching my boy slam-dunk his way through hidden pictures. I even have a hard time with those. Ah, to have young eyes again. But it also made me think about submitting one, as a 'smaller' project I could handle.

Max and Ruby books, Rosemary Wells: I can't say that I'm the biggest fan of this series. But I'm not the reader. It's another case of a TV show inspiring a trip to the library, and for that I'm buying into it.

The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein: We're going to have to try this one again when my son is older. He seemed a little TOO effected by it. It really is a sad, albeit moving, story.

The Loud Book. Deborah Underwood, ill. by Renata Liwska: How could you NOT love this book. It's gorgeous, layered, and perfect for adding sound effects. It's good for many, many reads.

Oh, and here's my progress on my little painting from a few weeks back. Yes, it's THAT slow around here!

Babybug has a blog!

Now say that three times in a row, really fast and without stopping.. ;o)

I am deep into working on a book right now so my life is completely crazy.

Dirty dishes in the sink, hungry dogs staring from under the desk, kids at school looking at their mixed up lunch boxes and an empty refrigerator except for one apple and half a bottle of diet coke. Does this happen to anyone else or is it just me?

So the truth is I really had nothing planned for today's post. But then I remembered that our lovely Gina mentioned the other day that Babybug magazine had a blog. How great right?

You can visit the Babybug's blog here. And today's post is an interview with a wonderful illustrator, John Sandford. You can read the interview here.

If you are bored, I also posted on my blog about how crazy the minds works sometimes, well at least mine does. Maybe you can relate. Click here to read my post.

Ok now back to work.