Outtakes -- gems from the trash heap.
	The flossing skeleton is a sample piece I put together for my upcoming book, Who's Whom in the Tomb (Hyperion, 2012). It won't appear in the book because we decided to go with another illustrator, one whose tone is both lighter and darker, if that makes sense.
	The snow scene above is the original cover for Avalanche Annie. Harcourt didn't like it, so they pulled an interior illustration to use instead. That should make this one really valuable, right?
	Methuselah in the boat was for I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago, which was to have been my second book. Before I got the contract my editor saw a new book by Stephen Kellogg that was based on the same folk song. Thud.
	The "Once Upon A Time" train was to be the final spread in Word Builder . I thought it was smashing, even worthy of a poster. "Nah," said Simon&Schuster. I salvaged it by reducing and distorting it in Photoshop, and making it a book within the book.