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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 19/09/2026

Today a herd of bison came within a block of my house.

Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 09/09/2026

For the year I turned three, my family lived in Japan. I have a large box of my parents' (antique!) color slides and we just found (with help) an archive in Tokyo that would like them. 3rd slide is Kodachrome, colors stayed rich. Other brands faded badly, need much Photoshopping to fix colors.

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 22/06/2026

As Fathers Day draws to a close, here is a bust of my father, made by my mother sometime before they were married. I have complicated feelings about my father but I have always admired this head and I am happy it’s in my studio; a number of plaster casts like this are floating around my family.

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 12/06/2026

In which I present my latest McGiver moment

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 01/05/2026

The Park Avenue Armory is the greatest place to hold the Antiquarian Book Fair

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 21/03/2026

Photographer Kirill Simakov took a photo of unphotogenic me for his portrait exhibit! I hang between Nicholas Lowry of Antiques Road Show (talking here to Kirill with Elie Wiesel behind him) & photographer Bruce Weber. Visit me there! Leonovich Gallery, W 24th St. in NYC, only until March 27

photo of Paul on wall between interesting other portraits

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 10/03/2026

I’m one of the pieces on the wall in a gallery in Chelsea! (New York’s fashionable neighborhood for art galleries). The show is pretty cool, Russian photographer Kirill Simakov in his first solo NY show. Come see it! (Leonovich Galkery , W24th Street)

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 31/10/2025

In honor of Halloween, I put on my website pictures of mystery/horror paperback book jackets that I made a long time ago. www.paulozelinsky.com/bellairs_jac...

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 06/09/2025

Just now, on my walk home: there’s a joke in here…

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 05/09/2025

Some things I came across walking near my house in the last few days

A blue cowboy hat and some wood box with a sort of grating for a lid

Dried children’s tempera paint in the gutter, in front of a preschool

A nice loaf of crusty bread on a raised wall

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 21/07/2025

Went today to see Superman in IMax 3D. Very enjoyable.

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 01/07/2025

Packing for San Francisco, where we’ll meet my daughter and her family. We’re bringing along a precious copy of “Dear Mr. Henshaw” for them to take back to Melbourne. Her son said Beverly had stopped signing books for people and this would be her last: she signed it for our as-yet-unborn grandson

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 22/06/2025

We went to the ballet and came out to find that the US “leader” took it on himself to start a war between the US and Iran.

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 18/05/2025

I recently got wallpaper from Spoonflower.com for my apartment: my own endpaper design from “The Enchanted Castle”— see it on my website. There is a lot left, 1/2 roll wide x 12’ long or so. It’s not good as wallpaper—images are very cut-off—but you can cut it up and all of it has adhesive backing.

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 18/05/2025

I’m offering this for the price of shipping, or you can come pick it up. More explanation in comments

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 19/04/2025

As co-chair of PEN America's Children's and Young Adult Books Committee, I am not charged with taking notes during the zoom meetings, but I do jot down some things, like the first half of this ( I spent much of the next day adding the rest)

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 03/04/2025

Ten days ago I posted pictures of magnolia buds on a tree I pass every day. Here are three more photos I've taken since then, the last one this morning with a beautiful other flowering tree hogging the foreground. Happy full-blown spring!

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 24/03/2025

I walk by this magnolia tree every day and have not noticed all the buds. But today they’re unignorable! Happy spring to all my Northern Hemisphere friends!

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 12/03/2025

I'm on the Advisory Council of @scbwi.bsky.social . Today we had a zoom meeting and I took extensive notes. I've scrambled the words for privacy, but my meaning should be clear from the images!

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 03/03/2025

I enjoyed it a lot. And by the way, here is what that doodle looks like now:

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 03/02/2025

Sophie Blackall gave a witty and deeply felt closing keynote speech at the SCBWI conference, to a rousing ovation. Then she went to sign books next to @peterbrownstudio.com who had spoken earlier, and a bazillion people lined up. #scbwiny25

Long signing lines for Sophie Blackall and Peter Brown at the end of SCBWI conference

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 01/02/2025

At #SCBWI conference, and taking notes on @debbieohi.com speaking about online tips.

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 29/01/2025

On the train home from school visits around Attleboro, MA, the sunset is beautiful and I’m not the only one to think so

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 29/01/2025

You can't see what was on the screen, but I could, and they could. Amvet Blvd. Elementary in North Attleboro

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 29/01/2025

In the three days following my visit to An Unlikely Story they took me to visit eight schools to speak about Still Life. I wish I could show photos of the kids but here is me; I love hamming it up with second graders. This is Roosevelt Avenue Elementary in North Attleboro, MA

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 29/01/2025

My storytime at An Unlikely Story in Plainville, MA, was lots of fun and I thank everyone who came. I don’t have a picture of it but upstairs from it, owner Jeff Kinney was working on a Wimpy Kid book and we got to visit him. My grandkids here are playing outside his spectacular studio.

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 22/01/2025

Notifying anybody who is or has friends in range of the children's bookstore AN UNLIKELY STORY in Plainville, MA, that I need children there this Sunday, Jan 26 2025, because I will be reading STILL LIFE at 3pm, and doing other fun stuff with whoever shows up. www.anunlikelystory.com/zelinsky

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 09/01/2025

I'm a day late, missed out on an easy $1000...

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 12/12/2024

@debbieohi.com I thought of you, at Fulton St, Subway station

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 05/12/2024

Holiday art show in Port Washington, NY, at their beautiful library, courtesy of Jane Breskin Zalben! Please come if you can! Reception is coming right up 12/7/24, 2pm. My contributions: art from "Red and Green and Blue and White" and "All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah."

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 01/12/2024

When The Wheels on the Bus came out in 1990, I could not have imagined that it would one day obsess a grandchild of mine in Australia!

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 22/11/2024

I thought I’d just post a couple of photos (day and night, down the block from me)of fall that supposedly is heading toward winter

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 17/11/2024

Can any Bluesky friends bring children to my story time next Saturday morning (11/23) in Newport, RI? It's a beautiful little bookstore! I'll be reading & drawing from "Still Life" by @alexlondon.bsky.social

Announcement of my storytime at Charter Books in Newport, RI, Nov 23, 2024 10:30am. Featuring the picture book "Still Life" by Alex London

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 14/11/2024

I’m getting ready to be taped by NPR in conversation with @alexlondon.bsky.social about Still Life! Alex is in the Philadelphia studio, I’m across the street from NYPL in Manhattan

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 13/11/2024

This is something my hand drew while I was trying to figure out how to make the dragon movable in my Books of Wonder diorama (I can say more about that later). It is not my dragon and what it's doing with that thing I also don't know, though I have some ideas.

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 08/11/2024

After the wonderful Rochester Book Festival last weekend, I visited The Harley School, which also great fun; they were very well prepared. The third graders watched my cat-drawing video at kidlit.TV (www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ULK...) and presented me with many very presentable felines!

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 29/10/2024

Any BlueSky friends in Rochester, NY? Who can come to the Rochester Children's Book Festival? I'm looking forward to being there! This Saturday, 11/2/24. I give a presentation, about STILL LIFE at 11:55 am! (STILL LIFE just got a great review from SLJ! Starred!)

Poster announcing Paul Zelinsky's presence at the Rochester (NY)Children's Book Festival, Saturday November 2, 2024. Promoting his book "Still Life," text by Alex London.

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 02/09/2024

Alex London and I talked about our picture book STILL LIFE at the Eric Carle Museum today 9/1, and we had a great time. Next Sunday 9/8 we’ll be at Books of Wonder in NYC!

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 27/08/2024

Alex London and I will be at the Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst MA this Sunday, 9/1/24 to talk about it & show stuff! Could you help me by trying to push people into coming? We'll both be grateful to you! The museum's email set my jacket in a bigger gold frame & I like it!

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 03/08/2024

Yesterday's Illustrators Q&A in the SCBWI's online summer conference was great to participate in! I hope attendees got something out of it. Here are two views of the panel: Jerry Bennett's screenshot and my more accurate interpretation. #scbwi #kidlit #doodles

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 25/06/2024

Last school year I visited a class studying fairytales and Broadway shows, spoke about "Cinderella and a Mouse Called Fred" and showed them how I draw a mouse. Today I was privileged to attend the results of their 2-year study: a Broadway musical, no less! Curtain call photo doesn't do it justice!

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 08/06/2024

I’m in Kansas City to see the Rabbit hOle. What an experience! I also got shown around behind the scenes—mind-blowing.

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 28/05/2024

An unsolicited email has me thinking..,

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 21/05/2024

Why isn’t this Brooklyn outdoor café featured in all the travel brochures?

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 13/04/2024

Pursuant to my last posts about "Still Life" fabric pattern colors, I selected your favorites, mostly, and had some printed on a yard of cotton, and I think I'll either make all but the green-and-pink one available for order on Spoonflower, or adjust that one to look more like it does digitally

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Paul O. Zelinsky @paulozelinsky.com · 15/03/2024

As per my last post, I'm asking for opinions on these 16 color variations in pattern for my "Still Life" book. In comments can you give me the 2 top you think I should keep, & two bottom I should toss? I'll post some on Spoonflower.com, but not 16! (If I can't post 16 I'll continue in comments)

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