Paul O. Zelinsky

Beginning to empty out my storage room: This giant photographic blow-up of art from "Swamp Angel" is yours for the postage (I don't know how much that would be). It is 57" wide by 37" high. Anyone interested?

Today a herd of bison came within a block of my house.

For the year I turned three, my family lived in Japan. I have a large box of my parents' (antique!) color slides and we just found (with help) an archive in Tokyo that would like them. 3rd slide is Kodachrome, colors stayed rich. Other brands faded badly, need much Photoshopping to fix colors.

Thanks to all who came to the SCBWI Illustrators Committee: Ask Us Anything session at #scbwiSummer26 - so fun! You all asked such GREAT questions. 🩷 With Laurent Linn, @thejerrybennett.com @titaberredo.bsky.social @betnoire.bsky.social @paulozelinsky.com #KidLit @scbwi.bsky.social

As Fathers Day draws to a close, here is a bust of my father, made by my mother sometime before they were married. I have complicated feelings about my father but I have always admired this head and I am happy it’s in my studio; a number of plaster casts like this are floating around my family.

In which I present my latest McGiver moment

The Park Avenue Armory is the greatest place to hold the Antiquarian Book Fair

worldvoices.pen.org/event/the-tr... If you are in or near NYC on Saturday May 2nd, you absolutely must attend this PEN World Voices Festival panel, on the topic of Graphic Novels and their transformative power. The event is free, but they are asking people to register in advance.

Has anyone seen the play “Giant” on Broadway, with John Lithgow playing Roald Dahl? Dahl was a horrible person (I don’t know first-hand but I do know second-hand). I’m curious what scandal the play treats.

Photographer Kirill Simakov took a photo of unphotogenic me for his portrait exhibit! I hang between Nicholas Lowry of Antiques Road Show (talking here to Kirill with Elie Wiesel behind him) & photographer Bruce Weber. Visit me there! Leonovich Gallery, W 24th St. in NYC, only until March 27

I’m one of the pieces on the wall in a gallery in Chelsea! (New York’s fashionable neighborhood for art galleries). The show is pretty cool, Russian photographer Kirill Simakov in his first solo NY show. Come see it! (Leonovich Galkery , W24th Street)

Please, please, share this event announcement if you know anyone near Takoma Park, MD or even if you don't: bookstore storytime at the terrific new People's Books this Sunday 1/4/26! I'll draw and read and I need kids or even grownups there to make it fun! peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/zelins...

I've posted about the big diorama I made for my book "Still Life" with @alexlondon.bsky.social, which after its stint in the window of @booksofwonder.bsky.social found a permanent home in the store: I've been improving it and just put a page about that on my website, so FYI: shorturl.at/4C94u

In honor of Halloween, I put on my website pictures of mystery/horror paperback book jackets that I made a long time ago. www.paulozelinsky.com/bellairs_jac...

Banana Menorah Countdown: 6 days to go! Today, my first picture book, RED AND GREEN AND BLUE AND WHITE, illustrated by @paulozelinsky.com published by @levinequerido.bsky.social The NYT called it “Beautiful… It’s a message the world can use, throughout the year.” #kidlit #socialjustice

This is coming right up: booksofwonder.com/blogs/upcomi...

Just now, on my walk home: there’s a joke in here…

Some things I came across walking near my house in the last few days

Went today to see Superman in IMax 3D. Very enjoyable.

Packing for San Francisco, where we’ll meet my daughter and her family. We’re bringing along a precious copy of “Dear Mr. Henshaw” for them to take back to Melbourne. Her son said Beverly had stopped signing books for people and this would be her last: she signed it for our as-yet-unborn grandson

We went to the ballet and came out to find that the US “leader” took it on himself to start a war between the US and Iran.

I think this is the first Bluesky post to do what happens all the time on other platforms, assuming I am the president of Ukraine!

As co-chair of PEN America's Children's and Young Adult Books Committee, I am not charged with taking notes during the zoom meetings, but I do jot down some things, like the first half of this ( I spent much of the next day adding the rest)

Ten days ago I posted pictures of magnolia buds on a tree I pass every day. Here are three more photos I've taken since then, the last one this morning with a beautiful other flowering tree hogging the foreground. Happy full-blown spring!

I walk by this magnolia tree every day and have not noticed all the buds. But today they’re unignorable! Happy spring to all my Northern Hemisphere friends!

@alexlondon.bsky.social @paulozelinsky.com @jewellparkerrhodes.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @robertstarling.bsky.social

I'm on the Advisory Council of @scbwi.bsky.social . Today we had a zoom meeting and I took extensive notes. I've scrambled the words for privacy, but my meaning should be clear from the images!

Sophie Blackall gave a witty and deeply felt closing keynote speech at the SCBWI conference, to a rousing ovation. Then she went to sign books next to @peterbrownstudio.com who had spoken earlier, and a bazillion people lined up. #scbwiny25

At #SCBWI conference, and taking notes on @debbieohi.com speaking about online tips.

On the train home from school visits around Attleboro, MA, the sunset is beautiful and I’m not the only one to think so

Notifying anybody who is or has friends in range of the children's bookstore AN UNLIKELY STORY in Plainville, MA, that I need children there this Sunday, Jan 26 2025, because I will be reading STILL LIFE at 3pm, and doing other fun stuff with whoever shows up. www.anunlikelystory.com/zelinsky

Not sure how long it will last, but STILL LIFE by me and @paulozelinsky.com appears to be 50% off at @barnesandnoble.com right now! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/still-life...

I found my conversation with Giuseppe to be stimulating and worthwhile. If you listen to it, please tell me what you think. Any counterpoints to my points?

@debbieohi.com I thought of you, at Fulton St, Subway station

Holiday art show in Port Washington, NY, at their beautiful library, courtesy of Jane Breskin Zalben! Please come if you can! Reception is coming right up 12/7/24, 2pm. My contributions: art from "Red and Green and Blue and White" and "All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah."

My picture book with @paulozelinsky.bsky.social, STILL LIFE, is back in stock over at Bookshop . org if that’s how you roll bookshop.org/a/722/978006...