By Brandon Dorman Coming up with new characters can be an interesting process. Most times I start with familiar images, but if I push, explore, and revise enough, they always get better. This is what happened with our giants. We started with typical ogre-ish big bodies, but I remember talking with Virginia, Steve, and Sylvie [...]
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Christoph Niemann explains it all. . . .
Earlier this week, Christoph Niemann celebrated the publication of That’s How! by sitting down with Terry Gross, the host of NPR’s Fresh Air. Actually, he was in Berlin, and she was in Philadelphia, but they found a comfy virtual space to sit and talk in. Christoph Niemann is the author of The Pet Dragon and [...]
Amelia Bedelia, Time Traveler
So far, Amelia Bedelia has turned back the clock in Amelia Bedelia’s First Day of School, Amelia Bedelia’s First Valentine, Amelia Bedelia’s First Apple Pie, and Amelia Bedelia’s First Field Trip. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace Share [...]
PIRATES Set Sail
By Brandon Dorman Arrrggh! This be da month that Cap’n Bones and his briny crew set sail! My brand-new picture book Pirates of the Sea! is now in stores! My goal was to create a pirate book that was traditionally based but showed as much as possible about what pirates encounter while at sea. Honestly, I [...]
THREE DAYS ON A RIVER . . . is 30!
When Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe by Vera B. Williams was published, School Library Journal wrote that it is “Certain to have young readers begging for their own three days.” Bingo. Parents be warned! It’s a deceptively innocent book package—the jacket is printed with the black-and-white marbled design of a school [...]
