Stephen Emond

A Peek at the Creative Space of Stephen Emond

Happy Monday, everyone! This Monday we’re stepping inside the creative space of author and illustrator Stephen Emond. Steve’s debut young adult novel, Happyface, was published in March by Little, Brown and Company. Have you heard about Happyface yet? I just finished it this weekend and thought it was so, so good. I’m not alone on that opinion either–the novel has received a starred review from both Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus, and has blurbs of approval on the back cover by authors Scott Westerfeld, Adam Rex, Michael Buckley, and Hope Larson. Happyface is told through the journal of an artistic, shy, funny teenager.… Read the rest