By Julie Rowan-Zoch

LOUIS is out of the box!

The cover of my picture book illustration debut is already online—and I’m ready to CELEBRATE!

No need for a drumroll, as the party is under way at HMH, IndieNext, Amazon, and Goodreads—and if you scroll down about halfway, you’ll find it at Mile High Reading—listed with many more new picture books hitting shelves this year!

Here’s the publisher’s description for LOUIS:

A beloved teddy can BEAR it no longer and plots his escape from his owner’s suffocating affections in this laugh-out-loud picture book from New York Times bestselling creator of Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site and Steam Train Dream Train fame, Tom Lichtenheld.

5 fun facts about illustrating LOUIS:

1.      The font used in the book was created from my own writing by my art director, Celeste Knudsen. We used multiple (and very funny) pangrams to source the characters.

2.      Just as I keep ribbons for further use, the red ribbon from the gift box also gets another life in the illustrations.

3.      All the illustrations were done in Procreate on an iPad—the dummy AND the final art.

4.      A coincidence, but in all but one spread I have included an object that connects to my own life.

5.      This is the first time Tom Lichtenheld is just the author of his book! Check out his other titles HERE, on his website.

LOUIS will hit the shelves on October 6, 2020, but I started getting to know Louis back in autumn of 2017. I’m eager for others get to know him, too! Thanks for popping in!

Julie Rowan-Zoch—author, illustrator, bookseller, and activist—grew up collecting freckles and chasing hermit crabs in New York and spent years slicing rich breads in Germany before waking up to 300 days of blue Colorado skies. If she doesn’t answer the door, look in the garden! Her debut book as an illustrator, LOUIS, written by Tom Lichtenheld, releases October 6.

Follow illustrator Julie Rowan-Zoch:

Twitter: @JulieRowanZoch
Instagram: @jrzoch
Blog: julierowanzoch.wordpress.com/

Follow author Tom Lichtenheld:

Twitter: @tlichtenheld
Instagram: @tlichtenheld
Website: tomlichtenheld.com