Shanda McCloskey – Bartography

Ask me anything about Fire Truck vs. Dragon

Can […]

By Chris Barton|2020-03-18T12:18:47-05:00March 18th, 2020|Ask me anything, Chris Barton, Fire Truck vs. Dragon, Little Brown, Shanda McCloskey|0 Comments

Fire Truck vs. Dragon stickers!

My newest book, Fire Truck vs. Dragon — illustrated […]

By Chris Barton|2020-03-10T06:31:17-05:00March 10th, 2020|Chris Barton, Fire Truck vs. Dragon, Little Brown, Shanda McCloskey|0 Comments

Fire Truck vs. Dragon how-to-draw and coloring sheets

This […]

By Chris Barton|2020-02-25T21:48:50-05:00February 25th, 2020|Chris Barton, Fire Truck vs. Dragon, Little Brown, Shanda McCloskey|0 Comments

Booklist and SLJ on Fire Truck vs. Dragon

Over […]

By Chris Barton|2020-01-29T22:09:17-05:00January 3rd, 2020|Booklist, Chris Barton, Fire Truck vs. Dragon, Little Brown, School Library Journal, Shanda McCloskey|0 Comments

Starred PW review for Fire Truck vs. Dragon: “Frustrated expectations have seldom been so funny”

There’s […]

By Chris Barton|2020-01-29T22:20:27-05:00November 21st, 2019|Chris Barton, Fire Truck vs. Dragon, Little Brown, Publishers Weekly, Shanda McCloskey|0 Comments

Fire Truck vs. Dragon review: “McCloskey’s daffy cartoons make a perfect complement to Barton’s high-wired hilarity”

By Chris Barton|2020-01-03T11:31:17-05:00November 12th, 2019|Chris Barton, Fire Truck vs. Dragon, Kirkus, Little Brown, Shanda McCloskey|0 Comments

Ernie vs. author shamelessness

Who will win?

By Chris Barton|2019-09-29T06:27:54-05:00September 26th, 2019|Chris Barton, Ernie, Fire Truck vs. Dragon, Little Brown, Shanda McCloskey|0 Comments

Introducing Fire Truck vs. Dragon

I’d […]

By Chris Barton|2020-01-03T11:32:55-05:00August 5th, 2019|Chris Barton, Fire Truck vs. Dragon, Little Brown, Shanda McCloskey, Shark vs. Train|0 Comments

2020 pub-date updates

For a while, my next two picture books had the […]

By Chris Barton|2019-09-29T06:46:28-05:00April 11th, 2019|All of a Sudden and Forever, Carolrhoda Books, Chris Barton, Fire Truck vs. Dragon, Lerner, Little Brown, Nicole Xu, Oklahoma City bombing, Shanda McCloskey|0 Comments

“Why do you have so many illustrators?”

Considering that I’ve worked with Ekua Holmes, Victo Ngai, Don […]

By Chris Barton|2019-01-10T12:19:32-05:00January 10th, 2019|Ashley Spires, author visits, Chris Barton, Don Tate, Ekua Holmes, Nicole Xu, questions from readers, school visits, Shanda McCloskey, Tom Lichtenheld, Troy Cummings, Victo Ngai|0 Comments