Goblin Diaries - shortlisted for the 2012 MER award

Goblin Diaries by Alex D’Angelo, and illustrated by me, Marjorie van Heerden published by Tafelberg in 2011 has been shortlisted for the 2012 MER award Media24 Books Literary for best illustrated children’s book & Youth Books. These  prizes are awarded annually for works published in the previous year and aim to acknowledge and applaud excellence in local literature (South Africa).

Goblin Diaries: Apprenticed to the Red Witch
Author:Alex D’Angelo
Illustrator: Marjorie Van Heerden
Tafelberg (Pty) Ltd
ISBN: 9780624052890
Price (incl. VAT): R 105.00
Format: Soft cover, 128pp, colour cover and b/w illustrations inside

My New Books have been published and will be launched in Singapore at the AFCC Festival.

The books I illustrated for Kathleen Ahrens (SCBWI International RA Chairperson) and Chu-Ren Huang have been published - in time for the AFCC conference in Singapore.  There will be a book launch on Monday 28 May organised by the  Bookaburra Bookstore in Singapore - at 1.15pm to 1.45pm

I have been invited to do two talks/presentations and Illustration Master Classes at the AFCC Conference - so I'm off to Singapore the end of this month.See the programmes of the 3rd Asian Festival of Children's Content (AFCC)

VERY EXCITED!!!

 

 

Ears Hear 耳朵 聽見 (In English & Chinese)
Written by Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang
Illustrated by Marjorie van Heerden
Sun Ya Publishers (Hong Kong)
 published in 2012

 

 

 

Numbers Do  數數

Written by Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang (In English & Chinese)
Illustrated by Marjorie van Heerden
Sun Ya Publishers (Hong Kong)
published in 2012

Two picture books - Numbers Do & Ears Hear

I finished and delivered all the illustrations for the two picture books I illustrated...
Numbers Do and Ears Hear, written by Chu-Ren Huang & Kathleen Ahrens (International SCBWI Regional Advisor Chairperson) , to be published in 2012 by Sun Ya publishers, Hong Kong
Below are a selection of illustrations from Ears Hear and earlier I posted some illustrations from Numbers Do

Illustrations for SAM, a chapter book.

In January 2912 I delivered the artwork for the book

SAM
’n Ware verhaal van ’n dogtertjie en haar olifant(a true story of a little girl and her elephant) written by Ingrid Vander Veken, translated from Dutch into Afrikaans by Antjie Krog and illustrated by myself.
Publised in 2012 by LAPA Publishers (South Africa)

Here is the cover illustration and below is a selection of the pencil drawings for inside the book.