PS: I especially love the part about where the wild things are! - The insight for me as a creator is that is that the story about the book is really important especially in important books!
Substack is suddenly filling up with fun picture book people! Awesome!
I luv anything with Sendak in it... I’m a long time Sendak fan & I even got to take one of his classes at the Parsons School of Design. I adore his earlier books especially... and I was amazed when Maurice brought in the finished pencil dummies to ‘Outside Over There’. It was so detailed. I blogged about meeting Maurice - http://johnnez.blogspot.com/2007/03/this-was-it-do-or-die-5.html
I’m also a PNW person... so congrats on the house! I live in Seattle, near the UW, in Bryant. I only spent 5 years in New York, to start freelancing, then moved back to Seattle.
If I could eat this, I would! Glad to have you back (not glad about all those sad tears though). Can't wait to see your cover reveal - and loved hearing your voice! This year is gonna be big for you!
I love his perspective of kids on whole beings.
Thanks for sharing this deep dive!
PS: I especially love the part about where the wild things are! - The insight for me as a creator is that is that the story about the book is really important especially in important books!
Substack is suddenly filling up with fun picture book people! Awesome!
I luv anything with Sendak in it... I’m a long time Sendak fan & I even got to take one of his classes at the Parsons School of Design. I adore his earlier books especially... and I was amazed when Maurice brought in the finished pencil dummies to ‘Outside Over There’. It was so detailed. I blogged about meeting Maurice - http://johnnez.blogspot.com/2007/03/this-was-it-do-or-die-5.html
I’m also a PNW person... so congrats on the house! I live in Seattle, near the UW, in Bryant. I only spent 5 years in New York, to start freelancing, then moved back to Seattle.
DYING TO SEE THE COVER!!!
Great post! I’m a Sendak fan & scholar as well -- see my own post here: https://open.substack.com/pub/kenpriebe/p/a-decade-of-studying-sendak
If I could eat this, I would! Glad to have you back (not glad about all those sad tears though). Can't wait to see your cover reveal - and loved hearing your voice! This year is gonna be big for you!