Cece Bell’s new Online Portfolio

Cece’s been working on a huge project: creating an online portfolio for her vast array of illustration and design work!
You’ll see familiar folks, like Sock Monkey and Itty Bitty there, but you may find Sock Monkey art you’ve never seen before like this:

You’ll also be surprised by some of her radically different work, like this:

Click here to see the portfolio…

itty bitty fan reads Itty Bitty

What could be cuter than Itty Bitty? A super-cool, super-tiny kid reading it!

See it to believe it in this video.

Fan reaction to new Fan Club secret swag!

Here’s the reaction of one fan who just downloaded the Secret Sock Monkey Fan Club swag from the Secret Site:

Sweet!!!!
this stuff is so coool!!!!!
I love sock monkey!!!!!
thank u thank u thank u
form the #1 sock monkey fan

Join today so you, too, can be that happy.

AND don’t worry, if you’re ALREADY A MEMBER, you can get the new stuff, too!

Just send an email to fanclub [at] cecebell.com

Important Sock Monkey Fan Club News

Sock Monkey’s Fan Club has finally entered the 21st Century!

The days of waiting to have your membership card printed out and mailed to you are over. Now, new fan club members will be given access to a SUPER SECRET PDF file that is ONLY for fan club members. Everybody else better keep out of Sock Monkey’s stuff!

The PDF file contains the ID card plus some new stuff that has never been available to fans before! Here’s the scoop:

Benefits of Membership:

A letter from Sock Monkey, the famous toy actor.

A wallet-sized membership card emblazoned with a top secret photograph of the real Sock Monkey, the famous toy actor.

Jerry Bee and Itty Bitty!

Plus NEW bonus stuff:

Bookmarks!

Jumbo “I Like Sock Monkey” badge for your door, locker, cubicle or car!

It’s all contained in a super-secret PDF file available ONLY to Fan Club members.

To get the super-secret PDF URL, just e-mail your address and a suitably fawning fan letter to S.M., the famous toy actor!

cecebell[at]yahoo{dot}com

Sock Monkey Christmas coloring pages!

Download, print, color, cut, hand, treasure, pass down through the generations…

Want the JUMBO version for hi-quality printing?

Sock Monkey is copyright 1996-2008 by Cece Bell

The Sock Monkey books are available on amazon.com or from your local bookseller. See the links at left…

Sock Monkey Snowman — seated

Snow covered our Sock Monkey adirondack chair, creating an instant snow monkey. All I had to do was add a few features.

Happy Holidays from Sock Monkey and Cece Bell

And for an extra cup of Sock Monkey Christmas Cheer, don’t forget his famous coffee commercial from last year…

Great news for Itty Bitty!

We just found out today that Cece’s new book, Itty Bitty, is on the ALA Booklist Editor’s Choice list for 2009!! (You may recall that they gave Itty Bitty a starred review awhile back….)

I have a feeling that Itty Bitty would say “All-Rightee!” But don’t quote me on that.

Here are the other Candlewick books that will be on the list! That’s a big Yeeha for Candlewick!

The Ask and the Answer**

by Patrick Ness

ISBN 978-0-7636-4490-1/$18.99

Higher! Higher!*

by Leslie Patricelli

ISBN 978-0-7636-3241-0/$15.99

It’s a Secret!

by John Burningham

ISBN 978-0-7636-4275-4/$16.99

Also a Booklist TOP OF THE LIST YOUTH PICTURE BOOK!

Itty Bitty

by Cece Bell

ISBN 978-0-7636-3616-6/$9.99

The Magician’s Elephant

by Kate DiCamillo

ISBN 978-0-7636-4410-9/$16.99

Punkzilla

by Adam Rapp

ISBN 978-0-7636-3031-7/$16.99

The Storm in the Barn*

by Matt Phelan

ISBN 978-0-7636-3618-0/$24.99

Also a Booklist TOP OF THE LIST YOUTH FICTION TITLE!

Yummy**

by Lucy Cousins

ISBN 978-0-7636-4474-1/$18.99

Scary Sock Monkey Pumpkin

Sock Monkey’s had a brain transplant from Dr. Frankenstein!

New Sock Monkey Goes to Hollywood Review…

The Wise Owl book blog recently reviewed Sock Monkey Goes to Hollywood…

Cece Bell’s narrative is modern, clever and hilarious — especially when the characters chime in.