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Ready Set Draw! YOU ARE MY CUPCAKE




Author/illustrator Joyce Wan is back and this time — she’s all about sprinkles!! On this episode of Ready Set Draw, Joyce shows us how to draw the super-cute treats from her board book, You Are My Cupcake! So grab your favorite markers, colored pencils, or crayons and go wild! You can add as many sprinkles and toppings as you like!

Is all this drawing is making you hungry? Be sure to watch Joyce on StoryMakers with Kathleen DeCosmo to learn how to bake your own batch of cupcakes and decorate them!

If your child or student isn’t ready to draw their own cupcake, they can decorate this printable:

You Are My Cupcake Decorate Me Printable

Click the image above to download the full-sized printable.

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Did you, a child, or student draw cupcakes using this video? Share your images with us via Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter! Use the hashtag #ReadySetDraw on Instagram and Twitter too. We can’t wait to see what you’ve drawn!

Watch Joyce draw Peep and Egg on Ready Set Draw !

Ready Set Draw - Joyce Wan Draws Peep and Egg Featured Image

Watch Joyce’s episode of StoryMakers to learn how to bake and decorate yummy cupcakes and discover her newest books!

StoryMakers Featured Image - Joyce Wan and Kathleen Decosmo

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ABOUT ‘YOU ARE MY CUPCAKE’


You Are My CupcakeYou Are My Cupcake - Joyce Wan
Written and illustrated by Joyce Wan
Published by Cartwheel Books

A scrumptious board book, filled with sweet terms of endearment. This bite-sized board book is an ode to all the names we call our children: cutie pie, sweet pea, peanut, pumpkin. With a candy-colored palette and irresistible art with glitter and embossing.

ABOUT JOYCE WAN

Joyce is inspired by Japanese pop culture, Scandinavian design, modern architecture, and the little things that put a smile on her face. In Joyce’s perfect world “everything would be cute, round, and chubby,” which is evident in her illustrations. Joyce is the author of several bestselling board and picture books including You Are My Cupcake and The Whale in My Swimming Pool, a Spring 2015 Junior Library Guild Selection.

Although Joyce’s parents had the equivalent of a middle school education, and her mother wasn’t able to speak English, her mother took Joyce and her siblings to the library every week. Picture books were integral to Joyce’s love of reading as she and her siblings made up stories to go along with the illustrations. Joyce counts the determination of her parents as a driving force behind her perseverance and success. “When I first started Wanart, I was working at a 9am-6pm job at an architectural firm. I spent many late night hours on my own business with only a few hours of sleep in between the two “jobs”. I did this for two years before I quit my full time job to pursue my own business full-time.”

Joyce graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University in New York City with a liberal arts degree in Architecture. Joyce teaches greeting card design and art licensing at the School of Visual Arts. The self-proclaimed night owl prefers drawing and writing in the early morning hours “when everyone’s asleep and the world is quiet.” Joyce lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey with her husband. The architect turned author and self-trained illustrator hopes to inspire people to “embrace the spirit of childhood and follow their dreams.”

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Posted by Julie Gribble
July 7, 2018, 9:51 am

About Julie Gribble

Julie Gribble

Julie Gribble produces works for children and the children’s literature community in both the United States and Great Britain. While a Children’s Literature Fellow at Stony Brook Southampton, she founded KidLit TV to help children’s authors and illustrators connect with their audience by using new technologies to complement and promote their work. Julie is also founder of the upcoming TeenLit TV which will feature video programs for YA fans. Julie has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and is a multi award-winning writer, screenwriter, filmmaker, and producer. Her charming picture book, Bubblegum Princess, is based on a true story about Kate Middleton and was released on the day the first royal baby, who we now know as Prince George, arrived. Copies of the book have been donated to underprivileged children in the US and to children’s hospices in the UK. NALIP BAFTAIn addition to producing KidLit TV’s original shows, Julie co-produced Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg, a feature film shot in Dorset, England with Bonnie Wright of Harry Potter fame, and DOG BOWL, a short film by Gordy Hoffman which premiered at the 2015 Raindance International Film Festival in London.  Julie sits on the Children’s Committee of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts: BAFTA-NY and is a member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, New York Women in Film and Television, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She has presented at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, NYC School Library System Spring Institute, and the 21st Century Children’s Nonfiction Conference.

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Kid Lit TV Commenter Diane Richards

This video is so much fun and being the analytical type, I look at things too complicated. Joyce makes drawing easy, fun and enjoyable!

I would love to win her book to give to my 5 year old niece. She loves doing arts and crafts and of course, cupcakes! This book would be perfect to encourage and keep my niece’s love of creativity and art, alive, as she grows.

And yes, I am going to try drawing some cupcakes, now :)

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