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This Is the Game

I’m soooooo excited! Just this week I received the artwork for my spring 2011 picture book, This Is the Game, about the history of baseball. It’s historical non-fiction and written in the same rhyme scheme as This Is the Feast and This Is the Dream.

The illustrator, Owen Smith, did a wonderful job of bringing that old-timey, 1940′s feeling to the book. I googled Owen and found out that his artwork has been featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, Time, Rolling Stone, and the New Yorker, for which he has created 15 cover illustrations. Take a look!