Matthew Cordell

Wolf in the Snow enamel pins (in my etsy shop, for enamel pin fanatics like me) 🐺❄️

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Northern IL friends and families! Join us this Thursday (Dec 4) at the Dunn Museum for a Wolf in the Snow presentation, storytime, and draw-along! Books will not be sold, but if you would like, bring any books with and I'm happy to sign after. Register here: www.lcfpd.org/calendar/sto...

Attention holiday shoppers! I just added 4 new designs to my redbubble store that can be purchased as shirts, mugs, stickers, prints, and more! Have a look here and thank you for doing so! ✌️ www.redbubble.com/people/matth... #kidlit #kidlitart ##childrensbookillustration

Thank you so much to Kirkus for selecting To See an Owl as a best picture book of 2025! It's an honor and a pleasure to see it remembered and acknowledged here at the end of the year. It's been such a terrific year for this book. Thank you to everyone who made it so. 😊❤️🦉

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I'm positively pleased to report To See an Owl is a 2025 School Library Journal best book of the year! Thank you so much to @slj.com for the kindness and honor! ❤️🦉❄️

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Northern Illinois friends and families! I hope you can join us for this special Wolf in the Snow event at the Dunn Museum in Libertyville on Thurs Dec 4 5-6pm. Link to register: www.lcfpd.org/calendar/sto...

My next picture book, 102, isn't out til April 14, but the 1st trade review is in and it's a star from @slj.com! Thanks so much, SLJ for the very generous and kind words. www.slj.com/review/102-1... #booksky #kidlit #kidlitart

Thank you! 😊🙌🦉

Aw, man, I love this! Thank you for this sweet piece, Margo, and for revisiting, resharing, rereading this old Cordell chestnut with your family and with us. Honkin' freakin' plunger!! ❤️😄

If there's voting going on in your state today, please vote! Local elections, state, federal elections, it all matters. Don't let the billionaire apologists, traitors of the poor and middle class, book banners, racists, and gay and trans phobes on the ballots squeak into power in your elections.✌️

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃

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That's amazing, Jennifer! It's such an electric feeling! ⚡️

I started an ongoing series in my sketchbook, drawing (pen/ink, standard ball point pen, gel ball point pen, colored pencil) and collage-ing (using different shades of blue paper plus watercolor papers) scenes from 1982's Blade Runner. Here are the first three. 🟦

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I love you, #Chicago ✊️

I'm just a breath away from finishing this David Bowie picture book biography that's been in the works for literal years. I'm excited about it, and it will be out in fall of 2026 from Neal Porter Books. It's called STARMAN.⚡️
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Night Birding (6 of 6)

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Night Birding (5 of 6)

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Night Birding (4 of 6)

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Night Birding (3 of 6)

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Night Birding (2 of 6)

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Night Birding (1 of 6)
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Have a good weekend.

Note to self (and anyone else who needs it): spend time away from phone, internet, social media. Spend time with family, friends. Go outside. Listen to music. Draw. Read.

Have a good weekend.

Wondering if anyone else refers to their pen as "an a-hole" multiple times a day? #ArtDrama

Thanks, John! 🎂❤️

Portrait of Uncle Jon of Piedmont (CA)
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The future is... questionable. But in 2026, I'll be working krautrock into a picture book. ⬛️

HELLO NEW BOOK COVER ALERT! My next author/illustrator picture book, 102, will be released April 2026, and I'm excited to share the cover! Thanks to fam at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers for making this one special--esp wildly cool Mary-Kate Gaudet and Angelie Yap. #kidlit #kidlitart #booksky

Weekend sketchbook drawing, good for the soul 🖤

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Thanks much, John! Very glad to hear! ❤️

Clocking out Friday while the ink's still wet ✌️
#workinprogress #wip #penandink #kidlitart