I Write Picture

Books for Kids.
And Honest

Ones for

Everyone Else.

Two very different kinds of book. One reason behind all

of them — telling the truth

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."

C.S. Lewis

And this is my buddy, Koda

About Kevin

I didn't plan to write children's books. I also didn't plan to write a memoir about the parts of my life I spent years not talking about. Both happened anyway — which tells you something about how writing actually works.

The books look different on the outside. Underneath they're made of the same thing: honesty. Honest heart for the kids. Raw honesty for everyone else.

I'm not trying to be one thing. The people worth paying attention to rarely are.

PUBLISHED WORKS

The Books

Broken Toys

Broken Toys is drawn from real life — real damage, real patterns, real reckoning with where you came from and what it cost you. Most of it is true. The rest of it is where the truth had to go. It's not a book that fits cleanly into a category. It's often not well received that's not an accident. The people it's for know immediately that it's for them.

Lost & Malone

Lost & Malone is a picture book about a sock named Malone who wakes up in the laundry room missing his friend Malcolm. He moves through his world — meets a broom, a washing machine, a bucket, a towel. Everyone he encounters is kind. None of them are Malcolm.

Rusty Gets His Turn

Rusty the wrench has always wanted to be a hammer. It takes a broken ladder — and one unexpected moment — to show him who he was all along.

Lumi's Dark Night

A story in progress. I don't want to give anything away. The bones of the story are in my head, but they haven't leaked onto the pages yet. Stay tuned!