Creating a Children's Book
I think there's something to be learnt by children. As the daughter of a teacher and the sister of one too, there's never a shortage of stories of how strange and creative children can be. So when we were given the task of illustrating a children's book I was ecstatic! I wanted to create something bright and colorful, a world that children can get lost in.
I chose the story of the Land of Nod. It's about a child that goes into a dream land and explores this strange and interesting world.
What I loved the most about this story is how it was pretty much left to the readers imagination about the way things looked. It hinted at a few things, like food and a monster, but over all it was very vague and concentrated more on the way the character felt than anything else.
I used to hate reading as a child, to the point where I'm sure my parents thought something was wrong with me. Then one day my sister handed me The Sorcerer's Stone, and I ended up reading all seven Harry Potter books. It was a whole new world for me. I wouldn't have called it an "escape" the way so many people do, because as a kid I loved my life and my little adventures I made for myself. But this book just added to those adventures. New ideas and new magic to be discovered. Our stories that we made out in the back yard turned into stories on paper.
I hope to achieve this with my own children's book which I'd like to write and illustrate one day. I love mystical tales that you can only find through books and your imagination. It would be the same concept as people who prefer more abstract, dream like art than they do realistic art. Why create something that already exists? Rather create a world that only you can imagine.
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." - C.S. Lewis
I chose the story of the Land of Nod. It's about a child that goes into a dream land and explores this strange and interesting world.
What I loved the most about this story is how it was pretty much left to the readers imagination about the way things looked. It hinted at a few things, like food and a monster, but over all it was very vague and concentrated more on the way the character felt than anything else.
I used to hate reading as a child, to the point where I'm sure my parents thought something was wrong with me. Then one day my sister handed me The Sorcerer's Stone, and I ended up reading all seven Harry Potter books. It was a whole new world for me. I wouldn't have called it an "escape" the way so many people do, because as a kid I loved my life and my little adventures I made for myself. But this book just added to those adventures. New ideas and new magic to be discovered. Our stories that we made out in the back yard turned into stories on paper.
I hope to achieve this with my own children's book which I'd like to write and illustrate one day. I love mystical tales that you can only find through books and your imagination. It would be the same concept as people who prefer more abstract, dream like art than they do realistic art. Why create something that already exists? Rather create a world that only you can imagine.
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