Israeli chemist Dan Shechtman just won this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of crazy tenfold symmetry in “quasicrystals” found in aluminum and manganese. Steven woke me up this morning with this article saying, “How much does this look exactly like zellij?!” Zellij … Read More →
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Casey Scieszka
Shotwell’s Bar t-shirts, by us, for you!
This summer we entered a t-shirt design contest at our favorite San Francisco bar (where Shitty Kitty was born!), Shotwell’s– and we won! Here’s the design that goes on a classic white tee: You can pick up your very own next time you swing by … Read More →
Diary of a Manly Kid
My brother Jake has never been much of a reader. Or a wimpy kid. Which are two of the reason he has never cracked open a copy of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of A Wimpy Kid. But yesterday when Steven and I we talking about the … Read More →
Vamos a Colombia!
People always ask us where we’re traveling to next. And now we have an answer… COLOMBIA! We can already picture ourselves in the streets of Cartegena. Literally. So send us your must-sees and the contact info of all of your Colombian friends! Vamos Gigantes! (Sorry– … Read More →
Help us win beer! And a design contest too of course.
Last year we won Brooklyn’s own Sixpoint Brewery design contest with our Mr. Sixpoint design. This year’s theme is “Beer Is Culture”. So we decided to go with a very classic version of culture: Ancient Egypt. Et voila! In order to win the contest our … Read More →
NYC Launch was Partyrrrific!
Thank you so much to WORD and to everyone who came out! We’ve got more pics and stories on the book’s website here.
Books
To Timbuktu (Roaring Brook Press 2011) To Timbuktu is Casey and Steven’s first book. Written by Casey, illustrated by Steven it tells the story of their first two years out of college spent living in Asia and West Africa. Here’s the book’s trailer: And some … Read More →
To Timbuktu NYC LAUNCH PARTY!
Woohoo! Next Tuesday, come on by WORD in Greenpoint for our NYC LAUNCH PARTY of To Timbuktu! You + us + books + all your friends = GOOD TIMES AT OUR BOOK LAUNCH! Official Facebook invite here.
On the road!
We’ve been running around like craaaazy out here on the West Coast talking to kids about Spaceheadz and To Timbuktu! LA, the Bay Area and now Seattle. A more detailed update coming soon, but for now, a taste of the madness: And by the way, … Read More →
Mark that calendar: BOOK LAUNCH PARTY!
It’s party time! We’ll be heading to the West Coast this March for loads of To Timbuktu and Spaceheadz events at schools and bookstores. LA, San Francisco, Seattle… We’ll be putting up details on our Events Map soon, but for now, mark your calendar for … Read More →
A Day in Bamako
In the morning, Steven had his usual 20 cent instant coffee from a street stand. Then we took a cab to the market. The market was crazy as usual. Packed with people and all things plastic. We were on the look out for fabric. After … Read More →
Wow
We keep saying “wow” because it’s so great to be back on the road again, but it turns out we’re also saying “yes” in Wolof all the time. Ah well. At least we seem agreeable. Our itinerary so far: Stop #1 New Years Day layover … Read More →
Party in Africa!
Steven and I are going to ring in the new year in Africa! Well, to be more precise we’ll be in the air for the actual changing of the year, but for the first three weeks of this new year we’ll be in Senegal and … Read More →
Give a book to a kid in West Africa!
It’s the season of giving. Want to give a book to a kid in Senegal? Donate to our nonprofit! Most of the school day in West Africa is taught in French, then students go home and live the rest of their lives in a different … Read More →
Shitty Kitty Meet Up TONIGHT, foolios!
You + Shitty Kitty + all your friends + Missions Dolores Bar + $10 pitchers of Sixpoint = THE BEST NIGHT OF YOUR LIFE AT THE SHITTY KITTY MEET UP TONIGHT! 5:30- 8:30pm, Mission Dolores Bar, 4th Ave Brooklyn. As always, you just bring yourself … Read More →
Give the gift of… To Timbuktu!
Not sure what to get your Mom/Grandpa/BFF/Lover/Co-Worker/Secret Santa Pick? Get ‘em our big fat graphic novel To Timbuktu! Sure it doesn’t come out until March 1st BUT you can pre-order it online here and we’ll send you this nifty little card that you can print … Read More →
Happy Eid Al Kabir!
Last year we celebrated this Muslim holiday of sacrifice in Morocco with our friends Amina and Mohammed and their family. Here are two of our less gruesome Before and After shots: It was delicious! Ok, actually the intestines were disgusting, but we thoroughly enjoyed all … Read More →
Shitty Kitty Bus’d Boys and Slammed Poets @ DC Meet Up
So it turns out DC insiders GET DOWN. Thank you everyone who came out and rocked it on a Monday night, and big thanks to U Street Busboys & Poets for hosting the madness, especially our Hall of Fame quality waitress Ty! Check out the … Read More →
Texas/To Timbuktu + Bethesda/To Timbuktu
We’ve been busy! We’re fresh off the plane from Corpus Christi, Texas where we presented To Timbuktu at the Jan Paris Book Fest to a lovely crew of librarians and future librarians. Check out photos from all that madness at the book’s website here. Steven … Read More →
First ever To Timbuktu book club
A few weekends ago, Steven and I were down in the D.C. area with his family. Both of his grandmothers spent an admirable amount of time reading the galleys of our book. As if that wasn’t cute enough I’ll tell you, it just melted our … Read More →
Can you spell 4 charity?
Then you should DEFINITELY go to 826NYC’s Spelling Beast event tonight and spell your face off at the Canal Room for a good cause! $50 to enter and you can buy “bee-bribes” with which to bribe the spelling bee judges throughout the competition. All the … Read More →
80s baseball players = 2010 Mission dwellers, no?
A couple weekends ago Steven and I were in his childhood room and came across his trading card collection in a shoebox. And guess who we found? Some residents from our former neighborhood in San Francisco, The Mission! For people who have no idea what … Read More →
Shitty Kitty was SHITASTIC
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Shitty Kitty Meet Up last night. You are all sick bastards. WE LOVE IT! We also did our part for TECHNOLOGY this Meet Up by handing out free Shitty Kitty iPhone/iPad/Android Apps. Sorry to all you Blackberry … Read More →
Our FIRST REVIEW of “To Timbuktu”!
Drum roll please… Carol Fitzgerald of the epic book blog BookReporter.com took “To Timbuktu” on vacation and came home with great things to say about it! She calls it “a brilliantly composed piece about pushing your limits and building a relationship under some very formidable … Read More →
It’s a Sixpoint party! (Cartoon of the Week)
HUGE thanks to everyone who voted for our entry in the Sixpoint Craft Ales design contest. WE WON! Our Mr. Sixpoint is now the face of the Brewery’s digital profile. We are celebrating by wearing our new Sixpoint gear and drinking the home-brews they sent … Read More →
Hot off the press!
The Advance Reader’s Copies of To Timbuktu are in! Oh how INSANELY HAPPY we are to finally see our two years worth of work in a physical form! Sure it’s just the uncorrected proof, sure there are still a few changes to be made, but … Read More →
Boing Boing and Bingo
So you made have heard about the whole Google possibly interfering with net neutrality business by cutting some deals with Verizon. Have no fear! The good folks of Public Knowledge are looking out for all your digital rights– which is why we were more than … Read More →
We Timbuktu’d, We Spaceheadz’d
“Timbuktu-ing” mostly consisted of telling folks we’ve got a book coming out next year (yes!), while “Spaceheadz’ing” was much more involved. See, we BROUGHT THE INTERNET TO LIFE. Internet on the Internet, Internet Brought To Life: And with said Internet, we signed up librarians and … Read More →
Librarians and Publishers and Us, OH MY!
This weekend we are heading down to D.C. for the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference. There will be: librarians, publishers, authors and illustrators (like us, woohoo!), AND the oh-so-mysterious-to-the-non-ALA-world…Drill Cart Competition. Books we’ll be hawkin’: Ours, To Timbuktu: And Jon Scieszka’s latest and greatest, … Read More →
National Animalgraphic
A new magazine hits the stands today: National Animalgraphic! It’s what came out of a conversation Steven and I were having over the weekend about what would happen if a National Geographic reporter stumbled upon animals from famous kids books doing their thing then lept … Read More →