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From: Lucine Kasbarian <lucinekasbarian_at_aol.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:30:39 -0500 (EST)
Though I have another question in the pipeline to Tim, I'd like to address the issue of selecting illustrators. As a representative of an albeit different indigenous culture (Armenian) whose similarity here rests in knowing what it is like to see one's own cultural features misrepresented at best and misappropriated at worst by a colonial power (Turkey), I can see how an author who knows what it's like to be "invisible" would wish for an illustrator with deep cultural literacy to accurately, authentically bring to life an often misunderstood, dismissed and/or endangered culture that could very well face extinction. It is that important. Of course there are exceptions -- Gennady Spirin does deep research. And so did my own hand-picked illustrator, the Russian Maria Zaikina.
Lucine Kasbarian/ Լուսին Գասպարեան See my books at the Armenian Pavilion _at_ LBF Stand U145; April 8-9-10, 2014 http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en/Exhibitors/261190/Lucine-Kasbarian
A 2013 Nautilus Silver Book Award winner A 2012 Storytelling World Awards honoree A 1998 Bank Street Best Books of the Year honoree www.lucinekasbarian.com
-----Original Message----- From: janeyolen <janeyolen_at_aol.com> To: horning <horning_at_education.wisc.edu>; ccbc-net <ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu> Sent: Wed, Feb 19, 2014 3:11 pm Subject: Re: [ccbc-net] Question for Tim Tingle about selecting illustrators
I have to say that as an American Jew, I have had illustrators as ethnically diverse
as Ed Young (Mainland China), Floyd Cooper (African-American), Tony DiTerlizzi (Italian American),
and by the way the ones I am mentioning are all male--and it never occurred to me to question their ethnicity
or gender when looking at their illustrations. Ed did books of mine set in an unnamed Middle Eastern country, an
Asian country (not China), and Emperor and the Kite in China. Floyd did a book that has both black and
white characters. Toni did fantasy covers. I could go on.
Any way, this is to say that of course a Russian illustrator could illustrate a Spanish story written by a Spaniard--think Gennedy Spirin for example, who has illustrated beautifully Irish folklore, English story, Danish (Hans Christian Andersen) stories German folk tales,Bible stories (Middle East), French folk tales, and more. Much more. And I hope some day he will illustrate something of mine.
Jane
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:30:39 -0500 (EST)
Though I have another question in the pipeline to Tim, I'd like to address the issue of selecting illustrators. As a representative of an albeit different indigenous culture (Armenian) whose similarity here rests in knowing what it is like to see one's own cultural features misrepresented at best and misappropriated at worst by a colonial power (Turkey), I can see how an author who knows what it's like to be "invisible" would wish for an illustrator with deep cultural literacy to accurately, authentically bring to life an often misunderstood, dismissed and/or endangered culture that could very well face extinction. It is that important. Of course there are exceptions -- Gennady Spirin does deep research. And so did my own hand-picked illustrator, the Russian Maria Zaikina.
Lucine Kasbarian/ Լուսին Գասպարեան See my books at the Armenian Pavilion _at_ LBF Stand U145; April 8-9-10, 2014 http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en/Exhibitors/261190/Lucine-Kasbarian
A 2013 Nautilus Silver Book Award winner A 2012 Storytelling World Awards honoree A 1998 Bank Street Best Books of the Year honoree www.lucinekasbarian.com
-----Original Message----- From: janeyolen <janeyolen_at_aol.com> To: horning <horning_at_education.wisc.edu>; ccbc-net <ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu> Sent: Wed, Feb 19, 2014 3:11 pm Subject: Re: [ccbc-net] Question for Tim Tingle about selecting illustrators
I have to say that as an American Jew, I have had illustrators as ethnically diverse
as Ed Young (Mainland China), Floyd Cooper (African-American), Tony DiTerlizzi (Italian American),
and by the way the ones I am mentioning are all male--and it never occurred to me to question their ethnicity
or gender when looking at their illustrations. Ed did books of mine set in an unnamed Middle Eastern country, an
Asian country (not China), and Emperor and the Kite in China. Floyd did a book that has both black and
white characters. Toni did fantasy covers. I could go on.
Any way, this is to say that of course a Russian illustrator could illustrate a Spanish story written by a Spaniard--think Gennedy Spirin for example, who has illustrated beautifully Irish folklore, English story, Danish (Hans Christian Andersen) stories German folk tales,Bible stories (Middle East), French folk tales, and more. Much more. And I hope some day he will illustrate something of mine.
Jane
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