HeyJaredMomo's Doodle Den
Occasional updates on news, inspiration, and creative process behind my books and snippets of my life as a self-taught children's book author-illustrator.
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Doodle Life - August 2026 (opens the original)
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My august was packed with work and pleasure so it flew past in the blink of an eye. The epic eclipse feels like forever ago now. In between our anti-AI campaign meetings, a special screening of Little Amelie organised by MilkTea, the annual kidlit summer picnic and a private viewing of <a hr
Thinking Out Loud #5 (opens the original)
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The thought trigger: a post written by a librarian, , titled What Children Actually Want From Picture Books.Adults often seem bizarrely willing to forgive a picture book for being dull if it is pretty enough. Children are not. Children know that a beautiful, award-winning picture book can still sit in a room like a brick.When I read this post, I immediately reposted it because it had spelled out what I had been feeling for years. Don’t get me wrong, I love pretty picture books. My bookshelves ar
Doodle Life - July 2026 (opens the original)
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I think this was the hottest July in my life! Hope everyone stayed cool and didn’t melt away. Despite the heat, I managed to had an eventful month, wearing multiple hats of a party host, an activist, a market vender on top of an author-illustrator. Book Birthday #1 - The Dinosaur TrapMy second collaboration with Josh Lacey came out at the beginning of this month. I wrote about my illustration process behind the book in this post, but here’s something I didn’t mention in th
Making of Little People, BIG DREAMS: Hayao Miyazaki - Part 2 (opens the original)
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My second Little People, BIG DREAMS book - Hayao Miyazaki (Quarto), came out this week and in the previous post I shared how I had channeled his work without using his signature look in the book. Little People, BIG DREAMS is a bestselling biography series for kids written by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara. It explores the lives of outstanding people, from
Making of Little People, BIG DREAMS: Hayao Miyazaki - Part 1 (opens the original)
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It’s the publication day of Little People, BIG DREAMS book - Hayao Miyazaki (Quarto)! This was such a special project for me partly because it’s so-called “own voice” book1 but mainly because I LOVE Miyazaki’s work. However, illustrating the life of someone so famous for his visual style and characters without show
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