- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.
- Illustrator
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.
- Observant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.
- Definitely
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's definitely a value in being literate.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
They don't send people from large corporations to hire people to make sculptures.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never mind write.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of the story.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020