Andrea Skyberg

This post is part of celebrating Women’s History month with 31 days of posts focused on improving the climate for social and gender equality in the children’s and teens’ literature

My favorite holiday gets a little bit better when my family and I dress up as characters from pictures books. Last year my daughters Evey and Celia got to have

Enjoying a beautiful fall here in Milwaukee. Hard to be at a desk writing when I can be out on the streets riding. SaveSave

Love this photo that WCAP shared for the Eric Carle Museum’s campaign #GetBehindPictureBooks of my book Squircle, which the kids from WCAP helped to create. SaveSave

Great times at SCBWI’s Wisconsin Fall Conference. My top five favorite memories: FUN: Hung out with my LITtle Ladies critique group—Sheri Roloff, Rachelle Lisiecki, and Rochelle Groskreutz, and my “conference wife” Amy

Shimmerling by Andrea Skyberg Dedicated to my brother Mitch (the wings) and my daughter Celia (the roots) Five years ago today, I had the worst call of my life, telling

A magical creature is born from a feather that’s been sowed into the soil. As it grows, it discovers that it has characteristics of both a bird and a tree.

My nine-year old daughter has been writing and illustrating picture books ever since she could hold a crayon in her hand. For the last three years she’s entered her creations

I’m excited to be the new Co-Regional Advisor for SCBWI Wisconsin, working together with author Miranda Paul. Big thanks to Michael Kress-Russick for co-leading our chapter for the last five years!

I love Halloween and every year I get out my glue gun and go to town on my kids’ costumes. This year Evey wanted to be a Goat or Satyr

I just returned from the fall conference. This was my second year attending and it was amazing! I was so much in the moment that I didn’t take a single

A magical creature is born from a feather that’s been sowed into the soil. As it grows, it discovers that it has characteristics of both a bird and a tree.

There’s been a blog tour going around the writing world, and the focus is on writing process. Kashmira Sheth invited me to share my writing process and I’m happy to have

My daughter Evey accepted a second place award for her book My Silly Sister Celi at the PBS Kids Write banquet. She loved seeing all of the other award-winning books

I was disappointed that I couldn’t attend the Indie Book Awards in NYC, but today I received a surprise in the mail–the Finalist Book Award medal and stickers for CommuniTree!

Pam Miller led some great Family Yoga workshops in the gallery based on my book Squircle. Adults and children explored the practice of Yoga, breath awareness, poses and movement, games, art and

I just found out that my book, CommuniTree, which was created in collaboration with 686 students from Milwaukee Parkside for the Arts, was honored with a Finalist Award for the

What a wonderful opening! Arts @ Large did a fantastic job and the work looked beautiful! Standing in the gallery looking around at the mixture of artwork from Caldecott-winning artist

Stories Shared Opening April 25, 5-8pm Gallery @ Large, 908 S. 5th Street, Milwaukee, WI, (414) 763.7379 Join us for Stories Shared, a gallery opening featuring the work of Caldecott Award winning artist

‘The Making of Shimmerling’ is a behind the scenes look at how, with funding from Arts@Large, I worked with over 300 students in two Milwaukee Public Schools — West Side

Working till 3am is starting to get to me, but I’m excited because we’re starting to get some great shots and we’ll begin laying out the book this week! All

I’ve made some revisions to my birds and trees of Shimmerling. I’m still playing around with them, but here’s a rough composite of how they’re coming along. It looked up

I’ve been busy trying to finish up the Shimmerling costume/sculpture for the April 25th gallery opening. I managed to get the wings, the feather headdress, and the Shimmerling’s face created

I’m very excited to announce that the artwork I’m creating for my new picture book Shimmerling will be featured in an art exhibition at Gallery@Large, along with the artwork of

I’m starting to put together the Shimmerling costume with all the feathers the students created. Also, I’m building the oak trees and birds and taking some test shots! Lots to

My 7 year old daughter Evey just finished her newest picture book My Silly Sister Celi. She was inspired by author/artist Barbara Reid’s book Picture A Tree. Evey used her

Living in Right Now-a-Pillar Time SaveSave

I just returned from the Society of Children’s Book Writer’s and Illustrator’s conference in NYC. I was able to show my portfolio and meet some great people. Favorite moments: Hearing