Calgary Book Launch

 Renata is in Seattle for the book launch of Once Upon a Memory tonight at 7pm, but she will be back this Saturday for the Calgary Book Launch.

Does a feather remember it once was a bird?

Does a book remember it once was a word?

Will you remember hearing Renata read

from her book?

Join us Saturday at Monkey Shine Children's

Books in Marda Loop for the Calgary launch

of Renata’s new book, Once Upon a Memory.

Illustrated by Renata and written by Nina Laden

Saturday Dec 7 at 2 pm, 2215 - 33rd Ave SW

Monkey Shine Children's Books

Book Launch in Seattle on Dec 3 and Renata will be there!

Once Upon a Memory is officially released this Tuesday and Renata will officially be in Seattle with the author Nina Laden at Secret Garden Books! She is super happy to be with Nina in person to celebrate this wonderful book's launch.

Join Renata and Nina at 7pm
Secret Garden Books
2214 NW Market Street
Seattle, WA 98107
206-789-5006

Once upon a Sketchbook #2

Here is another drawing for Once Upon a Memory written by Nina Laden and illustrated by Renata for publication by Little Brown this December. Some may recognize it as the the steps to the New York Public Library. Renata was inspired to include it from a visit a year or so ago. She just returned from another visit to NYC about a week ago. While there we visited a super exhibit titled The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter. This free exhibit is worth the visit if you are in the city, it features original art from a great many historically important children's books.

Some highlight for Renata include original pencil drawings for Alice in Wonderland, an original fur wrapped book by Margaret Wise Brown (poor bunnies!), and a do-it yourself kit by Eric Carle. Renata is excited to be illustrating a different story by Margaret Wise Brown for a compilation book which will be out next year.

The exhibit is on until March 2014 and more info can be found HERE.

Renata is on Twitter

Renata has grown quite a shine for twitter and is currently sketching at local coffee shops in the Brooklyn area and twittering away her time there. She quite likes twitter so if you want to hear from her direct (phonetic spelling errors and all!) follower her here: https://twitter.com/RenataLiwska

Once Upon a Sketchbook #1

As we near the December release of Once Upon a Memory written by Nina Laden, I thought I would gift a little peak of one of the drawings from the book (I will post more drawings as we near the release date). Renata has received a couple of gifts herself in the last few weeks. Her editor sent her the printed book which was pretty exciting. The other gift was a starred review from Kirkus for Once Upon a Memory! Connie included a Pantone card which was a bit of fun, Renata had wanted to be very careful with the colors so she got the Pantone swatch guide and specified the background colors - although I think they used white in the end.

SCBWI WWA Annual Conference for Writing and Illustrating for Children / April 13, 2014

Thanks to everyone who stopped by for the Kids Lit talk at ACAD, it seemed like the audience had a fun time I know the speakers did! The talk got Renata thinking about what she will present when she will be a keynote speaker at the SCBWI WWA Annual Conference for Writing and Illustrating for Children. The event happens on April 13, 2014 and will be in Seattle, which is the home of Nina Laden who wrote Renata's next book - Once Upon A Memory. It is not for a while but that will give her time to put together something extra special for the event.

http://chinookupdate.blogspot.ca/2013/10/conference-sneak-preview.html