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[CCBC-Net] Making a book -- and a bit more about vampires and sex
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From: Elsa Marston <elsa.marston>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:53:42 -0500
Re: How a book gets made: I think one of the surprising things about how a picture book gets made, which most adults don't know and which might intrigue kids, is that the writer and the illustrator DO NOT work together
(typically). Each has his or her separate view of the story, and rarely do they consult or have a chance to comment on the other's work--let alone ask for it to be done differently.
Sometimes this produces a wonderful new interpretation that had never occurred to the writer;. (I had a friend whose picture book about a brother and sister who went to the moon was illustrated by an artist who turned the human kids into squirrels. My friend was furious--but the result was a perfectly enchanting book. ) And sometimes it produces great dismay, disappointment, and outrage. There must be a lesson there.
About vampires and sex: judging from the interesting and provocative comments by Bren MacDibble on vampires and by Maia on sex, maybe we need to pursue these subjects again sometime.
Jane, thanks for the information about the long life of vampires in fiction. Of course I would never want to do away with ALL fictional vampires; I just wonder, as others have, about the current obsession with them.
Elsa www.elsamarston.com
Received on Wed 15 Jul 2009 10:53:42 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:53:42 -0500
Re: How a book gets made: I think one of the surprising things about how a picture book gets made, which most adults don't know and which might intrigue kids, is that the writer and the illustrator DO NOT work together
(typically). Each has his or her separate view of the story, and rarely do they consult or have a chance to comment on the other's work--let alone ask for it to be done differently.
Sometimes this produces a wonderful new interpretation that had never occurred to the writer;. (I had a friend whose picture book about a brother and sister who went to the moon was illustrated by an artist who turned the human kids into squirrels. My friend was furious--but the result was a perfectly enchanting book. ) And sometimes it produces great dismay, disappointment, and outrage. There must be a lesson there.
About vampires and sex: judging from the interesting and provocative comments by Bren MacDibble on vampires and by Maia on sex, maybe we need to pursue these subjects again sometime.
Jane, thanks for the information about the long life of vampires in fiction. Of course I would never want to do away with ALL fictional vampires; I just wonder, as others have, about the current obsession with them.
Elsa www.elsamarston.com
Received on Wed 15 Jul 2009 10:53:42 PM CDT
