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On this edition of Just One More Book!, Mark speaks with illustrator Diane Greenseid about singing colours, the process of developing a book and the creation of her snowflake, Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall, and a Great Winter, Too!
Diane’s spunky snowflake is up for bids November 26-30, 2007,
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Check out Diane Greenseid’s blog here.
Robert’s Snow: for Cancer’s Cure is an online auction of wooden snowflakes painted by participating children’s book illustrators. This annual event, which was started in 2004 by author Grace Lin and her husband Robert Mercer, has raised over $200,000 for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Just One More Book! is one of many online children’s literature resources participating in the promotion of this year’s Robert’s Snow auction. Over the next few weeks we will be publishing interviews with participating illustrators and we’re hoping that you’ll find yourself bidding on the incredible art that’s available to you during this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
You can read more about Robert’s Snow: Art Auction for Cancer’s Cure here.
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Grace Lin's husband, Robert Mercer, passed away this past week. A tribute to him appears at Blue Rose Girls. Our hearts go out to Grace and her family.
In 2004, Grace and Robert were inspired to begin Robert's Snow for Cancer's Cure to benefit the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Beautiful, one-of-a-kind snowflakes were created by children's book illustrators and auctioned to raise money for cancer research.
In lieu of flowers, Grace and Robert's friends and families have requested that donations be made, in Robert’s name, to:
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund
Attn: Lauren Nash
10 Brookline Place West, 6th Floor
Brookline, MA 02445-7226
Please make checks out to "Robert's Snow."
The Robert's Snow online auction will be held in November and December 2007. Gail Maki Wilson has a post at her blog Through the Studio Door listing some of the artists who have created a snowflake for auction. You can get an early look at many of the snowflakes and the process of creating them.
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[…] Diane Greenseid, featured by Andrea and Mark at Just One More Book!! […]
Andrea and Mark (and Diane!), this is great! I love how she talks about the difficult, time-consuming side of illustrating. And that’s not only ’cause I love to read about illustration, but because a lot of people tend to simplify what illustrators do, as if they are surrounded by little, cute, pink children’s lit bunnies all the time and can whip up something fast. But, as she said, it takes a long time for one book, and you realy have to keep your enthusiasm up. I can only imagine.
Her blog IS great! I scanned it while listening. I love her July post about the creation of the snowflake.
And I see that she wrote this at her blog:
“Mark is an incredible interviewer, always asking just the right question.”
WORD, Diane.
Thanks to you all! Such a great feature!
Thank you, Jules!!!
I agree. And I LOVE her blog too. It is so honest and concise and she only writes when she has something very interesting to share. I love that she captured and shared her just-received-my-new-book photos and excitement, for example.
For me, the beauty of a blog is the intimacy, but it seems many bloggers feel pressured to produce on a schedule and the intimacy (and, I think sometimes the honesty) gets fuzzy.
Diane seems like the real deal, eh?
Yes, she does. Now, can someone just add about five more hours to my days for great-blog-reading? :)
What an awesome interview. Real live voices! And spunky snowflake indeed….
I love the originality of this! Adorable!
Man alive, such a brightly colored, fantastic website, and a great interview! I really love the snowflake, and though I can’t probably score that, I’m pleased to see there are books to hoard — I mean, have.
Very cool!
Thanks for this interview with Diane Greenseid. Her 2007 snowflake is colorful and detailed and really delightful. I’ve had the opportunity to see the snowflakes in person. I am also the lucky individual who won Diane’s snowflake “Bear Soup” in the Robert’s Snow 2005 auction.
This is so much fun to see all these comments, and how exciting to find out the owner of my “Bear Soup” snowflake! Thanks Mark and Andrea, you are the best.
[…] Did you see yesterday’s features? I wish I had time to point out some highlights from all of them, as I enjoyed reading each one. Go check out Dan Santat’s unusual snowflake, featured by Kelly Fineman yesterday at Writing and Ruminating (and find out exactly what my new favorite word, “chillax,” means); go hear Blogging for a Cure’s second podcast and first informative audio interview (with Diane Greenseid) at Just One More Book!!; and, by all means, don’t miss Alissa Imre Geis’ snowflake (entitled “Hope for Winter”), as featured by Elaine Magliaro at Wild Rose Reader, because it has an excerpt from an Emily Dickinson poem on it, which is so flippin’ beautiful, it made me cry. I might even feature it again later here at 7-Imp. […]