The Night Market came to Detroit Saturday night:
Music, art & trucks in a secret location disclosed only hours before.
Sideshows and art environments, mobile and temporary,
a carnival for adults, evaporating before dawn.
Jessica and the bonfire:

Space music laser-light performance:

George:

Kathe Koja on stage:

An imp’s nights spent squeezing the daylight
out of clouds, preparing for the next year.

Good news for Step Gently Out!
Best Children’s Books of 2012 – Kirkus Reviews
All the news, reviews and up-to-date information for the book, plus a book trailer: Step Gently Out.

Staking a claim on a lost love, her cries
punch a hole through the day.

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus

The Night Market came to Detroit on May 12th,
“where trucks transform into interactive dioramas,
theaters for sublime & bizarre entertainments”.
No one knew the location until a few hours before
the somewhat-secret event.
Lots of fun: SmR, one of the organizers, shares his impressions
of the night to go along with some video snips.

Lost Horizon Night Market by SmR
The Trucks start out from their individual staging areas.
They have been worked day and night to realize a vision.
The clatter of the diesels maneuvered by rank amateurs who
feel silly or at least strange
sitting …

How cool! Step Gently Out is featured in the April 2012 Journal of the Arthur Rackham Society.
The greatest artist of the “Golden Age” of illustration, Rackham is one of my favorites, and it’s a real treat to see Step Gently Out amongst the wonderful Rackham art.
For more information, visit the Arthur Rackham Society.

As part of Canton’s Acts of Culture Week, I’m giving a presentation of my wildlife art., and signing copies of my new book, Step Gently Out.
It will be 7pm, Tuesday, May 1 at the Canton Public Library, located at 1200 S. Canton Center Rd., Canton, MI 48188.
“In celebration of Canton’s Acts of Culture Week, we are pleased to present photographer Rick Lieder as he shares his beautiful book, “Step Gently Out”, an amazing ‘picture’ of what we can find in our own backyards if we just step gently and keep …

The book trailer for Step Gently Out was featured on The Daily Beast blog:

My exhibit and Step Gently Out book signing at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art April 6th
was so much fun, dozens of copies of Step Gently Out sold and signed,
and our presentation was very enthusiastically received.
Helen Frost has so many friends and supporters and the museum
was a great venue for our book.

Rick Lieder, Helen Frost, Anne Hall.

Erika Rohrbach from Kirkus Reviews did an interview with Helen Frost and me about Step Gently Out and how our collaboration works. It’s live on their site now.
“With Step Gently Out, the stunning first-time collaboration between poet Helen Frost and nature photographer Rick Lieder, proponents of the odd separation of author from illustrator in children’s publishing are hereby put on notice.”
“The marriage between word and image in this gorgeous picture book melds one poem encouraging young readers to explore insect wonders of the natural world with breathtakingly intimate photographs captured …