This interview originally ran in July of 2011. ABC Square Cat,  a follow up to Square Cat will be published in 2014. Leave a comment to be entered to win a copy of Square Cat!Congratulations Mrs. Brown! You’ve won the copy of SQUARE CAT. Please email me with your mailing address and I’ll send the book out to you.   Joining us today is author and illustrator Elizabeth Schoonmaker. She is sharing not one but two creative spaces with us. Her indoor space where she creates her illustrations and her outdoor space where she creates. . . well, you’ll just have to scroll to the end of the interview to see.   Square Cat, her picture book debut, is in bookstores now: “Eula is the only square cat in town.… Read the rest

Joining us today is author and illustrator Elizabeth Schoonmaker. She is sharing not one but two creative spaces with us. Her indoor space where she creates her illustrations and her outdoor space where she creates. . . well, you’ll just have to scroll to the end of the interview to see.   Square Cat, her picture book debut, is in bookstores now: “Eula is the only square cat in town. Everything that normal cats do is hard for her–she can’t get her square paw into mouseholes, she can’t wear her favorite circle skirt, and all of her friends are round! Eula is sad until her two best friends show her how well a square cat can fit into this round world.” Elizabeth got the idea for Eula one day after she finished a sketch of her cat Stanleigh, who is a round cat: Soon after, Eula the Square Cat was born: You can learn more about Elizabeth Schoonmaker here, and you can learn more about Eula the Square Cat on her website and blog.… Read the rest