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Part of the fun of writing a children’s book is the unlimited palate of fanciful characters and situations available. I have said it before, but I would purposefully compose scenes that I thought would be murder to illustrate. Ruler Of Space really let me “go crazy”, so we found our main character zooming through space on Nintendo-esque X-rays and having their hair cut by cats wearing rocket packs.
Compared to those, playing hockey on Neptune was pretty tame! Perhaps I forgot to mention the oposing team… take a look.
Sara Michaels has worn glasses “all my life,” and she has insisted (and we’re delighted that she did) that parents be offered the option to give their children glasses in Ruler of Space.
Sarah says that as a child she was always drawn to characters in books that wore glasses and described them as “total confidence boosters”.
It has always been our goal to engage children’s interest in books by inserting them into the action with our personalized children’s books. Before, kids with multicultural families might only have found characters similar to themselves in a couple books, and even then the book was likely to be about having a multicultural family. In “If I Were Big“, your adventure is the story, and the fact that your family is made up of a white mom and a black dad is just the way things are.
Now we can say the same thing about kids with glasses. In other books, most characters with glasses will at the very least remark upon their glasses and how other kids tease them for wearing them. At the most, that conflict will drive the entire story. I think a diet of such books, far from convincing a child of their self-worth, will focus them on how they must combat negative assumptions about themselves and their glasses.
In Ruler of Space, wearing glasses isn’t what the story is about. Ruling Space is! You just happen to be wearing glasses like you always do and it doesn’t slow you down one bit. You’re still awesome. You’re still funny. You’re still unique. What gift could be more affirming than being judged the coolest person in the entire Galaxy, glasses and all?
In addition to authoring these books, it has been my extreme pleasure to work with our talented artists and to see them transform the black and white words into worlds of color and imagination. I’m always interested to see details and scenarios emerge in the artwork that had never occured to me when writing the text.
The artists have been subjected to my terrible dictatorship as they work through draft after draft, page after page, and Sara (for some reason) came back for more punishment to illustrate our next book “RULER OF SPACE”. Actually, the process is extremely collaborative and I think the results are fantastic. In order to help you understand the time and effort our artists pour into their works, I invite you to follow the journey of Sara’s sketches to a final page. It’s a lot like making a movie.
First, Sara sketched out numerous body and head shapes to find the right proportions and style for our main characters. In the movies, this part would be ”casting”.
Then the characters went into wardrobe and makeup…
Then she started to build the set… We realized we needed a throne…
and a throne room… we loved the living alien throne so Sara made it bigger.
Then we rehearsed…
And… action!
CUT! This scene is a wrap! Stay tuned for more sneak peeks as we keep filming.