Sara Varon's Blog

Hi! If you’re interested, here’s a short video of me showing you how to draw Sweet Pea from the book My Pencil and Me. It’s part of First Second’s #SketchSchool, and you can click here to see more #SketchSchool videos!

Click here to access the coloring/activity page below!

Intended to be printed on 8.5 x 11 paper.

Read about the Robot Dreams animated feature!!

Hello! Come to my first book event (online, of course) for My Pencil and Me! 

Saturday, November 7 at 10 am EDT, through Boogie Down Books in the Bronx!

Sign up here!

My Pencil and Me (due out September 28!) gets a great review in Publisher’s Weekly!

What an honor! Hold Hands is on the New York Times list of The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019!

Upcoming events in Brooklyn and Atlanta (yes, Atlanta!)

BROOKLYN: Sunday, October 6 at Brooklyn Children’s Museum, I’ll be reading ‘Hold Hands!’ at 11 am for their Bookfest, which runs from 11-5.

ATLANTA: On Saturday, October 26, at 10:30 am, I’ll be reading at the Post Road Library in Cumming, and the rest of the day I’ll be at the Milton Area Library Convention in Alpharetta!

Hello! Look for a review of Hold Hands in the New York Times on Sunday June 23rd!

Hopefully it will be a good one!

Lucky me! New Shoes received a 2020 Beehive Book Award Nominee from the Children’s Literature Assn of Utah! Thank you, Utah readers!!

Lucky me! New Shoes has been nominated for two awards! The book received a 2020 Beehive Book Award Nominee from the Children’s Literature Assn of Utah AND Francis the Donkey has been nominated for a Kids’ Comics Award (at the Ann Arbor Comics Fest) in the category of Bravest Hero! If you happen to be under 17, you can vote on that until June 15th.