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This week I took my first professional opportunity to come out of not living in Cornwall, & popped along to the London Book Fair with my folio. I have to admit, I was honestly terrified on the way up there. I'm not very shouty about my work, I love it & I need it, but I'm always apprehensive about showing it to 'professionals,' in case maybe they see I'm not an illustrator I'm actually a very immature woman with a lot of art materials. So even deciding to go was quite a step! What a wally I am, though, because I met some lovely inspiring illustrators & had some very positive feedback from agents & publishers! By the end of the day I'd smiled so much my face hurt. So now I've rekindled the fire under my bum for drawing things, & with some good advice from people at the LBF I'm hoping to move my freelance work forward. So just in time for the sunshine to be hitting the UK, I've sworn an oath to my studio & banished myself to working weekends. Seeing the sun through my window excites me more for my work though, so it's a happy exile, believe me.
New drawing!
Probably a more 'personal' piece than my personal work usually is, I guess. I'm (still) reading 'Women who Run with the Wolves' by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, which is generally a very affecting book but at the moment something there is particularly poignant. So I'm searching for pieces of my wildish self, & reading & drawing & thinking a lot. It's not a particularly tidy job, but it's worth it.
And I really like drawing organs, despite the minefield that is googling up references.
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With the Forts series wrapped up, I've moved onto something else, and believe it or not that something else is getting released in March!
Goats Eat Cans is coming soon!
What the heck is Goats Eat Cans and why should you care about it?Trust me when I tell you that you're going to like this thing.
If you hated Forts and you hate me for writing Forts, you're still going to like this.
Goats Eat Cans isn't Forts. It's nothing like Forts.Nothing at all.
Click the picture below to head over the official Goats site.You won't regret it.
Maybe.
by Andy Griffiths with illustrations by Terry Denton
Scholastic
"From the Best-Selling Author of The Day My Butt Went Psycho..." 'nuff said.
In researching about the types of books boys like to read I came up with a short list of elements that, when included, would increase a reader's interest. Most of the things writers are taught have to do with craft elements – subtext, metaphor,
We were all very sorry to hear that OUP author and former TLS editor John Gross has died at the age of 75. Judith Luna, Senior Editor, who worked with him for over 25 years on a range of titles, pays tribute to him below.
It was with great sadness that I learnt this morning of the death of John Gross, a wonderful writer and the editor of an astonishing number of classic anthologies, that we were privileged to publish. He had an astonishing knowledge of English literature, from its highest to its lowest reaches, and a wonderful ability to identify the telling passages, the most entertaining extracts, and thus reveal the heart of an author. He also had the rare gift of knowing how to construct an anthology, with imaginative juxtapositions, balancing the brief skit with a longer, more serious piece, and the whole interwoven with his own expert, discreet commentary, that was often as entertaining as the piece itself. A past editor of the Times Literary Supplement, and theatre critic for the Sunday Telegraph, his own editorial and critical skills were second to none.
Over the course of more than 25 years he edited the Oxford Books of Aphorisms, Essays, and Comic Verse; the magnificent New Oxford Book of English Prose, virtually a history of English literature in its own right; After Shakespeare, a superb anthology of writings about and inspired by Shakespeare; and The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes. John was himself a marvellous raconteur, whose anecdotes about literary life were full of mischief and fun. It is somehow fitting that his most recent anthology, The Oxford Book of Parodies, published in 2010, should pay tribute in its own way to the great variety of literary styles from the earliest times to the present, and display a knowledge and affection for literature that epitomized its editor. The critical acclaim that the book has received, and its popular success, are a fitting tribute to a great man of letters. He will be much missed.
What's the grossest thing that's ever happened to me? Well, I've had pets, so I've done my share of gross clean-ups of various yuck that comes out of the front and back ends of dogs and cats. BLECH!
I kept Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches as classroom pets for a lot of years. I think they are pretty cool critters, but for lots of people they were really high up on the scale of grossness. EEK!
When I worked at the swimming pool, it became routine practice after giving swimming lessons to the littlest kids to skim giant snot-wads out of the water (with no protective gloves) and fling them onto the sidewalk to dry up and blow away. (Better that, than to swim into them!) YUCK!
Come to think of it, being a teacher has given me plenty of gross experiences. The grossest was probably when I looked down at a student's head and saw it crawling with lice. GROSS!
My most recent gross experience was last Friday when a surgeon cut four little slits in my belly, blew me up like a balloon through one, stuck a light and a camera in through a couple others, and reached in and--snip-snip--cut my gallbladder free and dragged it out through one of the holes. EWWW!
I'm starting to think I could have been a writer or a consultant for Chronicle Books' newest Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook:
by David Borgenicht, Nathaniel Marunas, and Robin Epstein
illustrated by Chuck Gonzales
Chronicle Books, 2010
review copy provided by the publisher
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbooks have been
favorites in my classroom since the first one came out. There is no doubt in my mind that this edition will be the most popular. It has boogers, farts, burps, pus, and pinkeye.
It also has practical information about how to plunge a toilet, how to remove a tick (get an adult's help is the first step), and how to safely drink from the drinking fountain at school.
For possible word study lessons, there is a table of barfonyms and a list of poopisms. You can learn how to say what you say after someone sneezes in seven different languages.
But most of all, this book is just good GROSS fun! Here's an example:
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: GROSS
Thanks, Todd Doodler, for writing an awesome, short and silly book that makes the storytime I do on Saturdays way, way easier. It's not always easy getting a bunch of kids to sit still for one page, let alone a whole story when there are things like other kids, other books, grownups talking loudly, dogs, bubble gum, things with stickers in them, things that have lots of little parts, lollipops and things that are shiny around. But Bear in Underwear gets it done. What's in the backpack? Underwear! Where do they go? On bear's bare bottom! Is there enough underwear for everyone? Yes! Laughter ensues. Bottoms stay in seats, until, of course, everyone gets up to touch the squishy cotton underwear on the cover of the book. Gross.
Many thanks to Tom Richmond for alerting us that Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids artist Tom Bunk has a blog. He’s using the blog to showcase all sorts of things from his varied artistic output, including illustration work, and fine art. But it’s the work for an unpublished Topps trading card series called Loco-Motion that I’m loving.
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Your guess as to what this is is as good as mine.
It kinda reminds me of Michael Slack’s work… just not as awesome.
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It's going to be a very busy Wednesday for me. I've got a lot of work to do and will most likely spend the vast majority of my day hunched over my drawing table in my dark studio with the blinds drawn. I won't take a shower until well after lunch which will make my hair slimy, and my skin greasy, and my teeth still covered with that pasty morning tooth film for most of the day.
That's right...I'm a bridge troll.
I'd tell you to "ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS THREE" before you continue reading, but I'm much to busy to come up with three questions, so instead I'll just wave you through.
The above sketch is yet another rough from the very same recent project the last rough was produced for.
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Holy toledo things have been busy lately!
Lots of work and lots of family stuff has made it a wee bit difficult to get around to posting on the ol' illustration blog. Add all of that to the fact that I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping and you've got a recipe for disaster more annoying than a weekend long marathon of Ben Affleck movies.
Anyway, hopefully I'm entering a bit of a downspell and hopefully that'll mean throwing something up on here more often.
Hopefully.
I don't like making promises, so we'll just stick with hopefully.
Anyway, my wife has been snapping some pictures of me early in the morning and we think that we've discovered the reason I'm not getting any sleep.
The stupid cats seem to think my head is their bed.
(Don't give me any guff on the black and white stripped quilt. I've had it since I was a kid, it's ugly as sin, it needs to be thrown away, I've heard it all from my wife more than once. I'll tell you the same thing I tell her...it's not going anywhere. That's right, I'm a thirty year old Linus. Deal with it.)
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Author: Judy Sierra
Illustrator: Jack E. Davis
Published: 2005 Harcourt Inc
ISBN: 0152054170 Chapters.ca Amazon.com
Full of richly detailed, hilariously disgusting illustrations and fiendishly twisted traditional verse, this collection of poems is a year-round favourite.
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The Day My Butt Went Psycho! I can see why kids would want to pick that one up for the title alone. :D
Hey David, again, a lot to think about and of value, but I think you're undervaluing boys. My little guy is not a good reader at all, and it's not one of his favorite things to do, but I think you're wrong that boys don't care about character or plot. In fact, I think one of the main things that makes the Captain Underpants series so appealing is not just it's outrageous
Pam, as always, I think we're on the same team here, but a couple of points suggest clarification.<br /><br />I think we can agree that a large part of the problem comes down to choices, and sometimes I feel the deck is stacked against boys. I know several bookstores -- indie bookstores, children's bookstores -- who, as a matter of principle, do not carry <i>any</i> of Andy Griffiths'
Hi David,<br />I think that when you have a reluctant reader you have to find that middle ground. Let them have their silly, disgusting fun and then encourage them to read other, more sofisticated books, magazines or even comic books with characters and storylines that interest them.<br /><br />As the mom of two now-grown boys, I remember the fun they had with Mad Libs. It was all giggles all
Hey David - thought provoking as usual! Do you think there's a tipping point age-wise here, where boys actually begin to be interested in the more nuanced craft elements?
nicole,<br /><br />i think that tipping point is, like many boys, a function of their interest, culture, etc. like puberty (though i'm not saying it's biological) i think boys like to discover things at their own speed, and when they do they tend to stick longer. <br /><br />when i trained to be a teacher many moons ago i was told to expect that boys would try to monopolize class time by