How wonderful to understand exactly the creative process of a Picture Book. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Many years ago, I worked in advertising – making TV commercials, magazine ads and the like. While casting kids for a tv commercial, this little girl showed up with her sweater mis-buttoned, so I said, “she has more buttons than holes.” Then, of course, I did a doodle…
Which made me wonder if it could become a book…
which made me do more doodles…
My initial idea was that the book would be a collection of “more this than that” situations.
At the same time, I was experimenting with watercolors and created this random image by sprinkling salt onto wet, blue paint, which was clearly meant to be a snow-filled sky.
I liked many of the situations but there wasn’t much holding them together – no Big Idea to give them context. I had about 20 drawings, which I showed to my very smart friend Amy Krouse Rosenthal, asking…
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A fascinating delight – thank you!
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I’m sure you can come up with a Rhino or Elephant story, Harry.
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