A celebration of the written word - Nashville, TN!
Mandy and Cheryl attended The Southern Festival of Books on a perfect fall weekend...blue skies, music, great food! We met some fabulous authors and talented illustrators. Our first session was with Matthew Reinhart, co-creator of the Encyclopedia Prehistorica and Encyclopedia Mythologica series. He considers himself a paper engineer and has collaborated with Robert Sabuda, Maurice Sendak, and Tomie dePaola. He says he was inspired by Eric Carle's work with paper and layered look.
In our next session, we met with graphic novel artists Eric Powell, creator of Chimichanga, and Eric Wight, creator of the Frankie Pickle series. Powell worked on titles such as, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Weird Tales, and MAD magazine. Prior to his newest graphic novel series, Wight was an animator for Walt Disney, Warner Brothers and Cartoon Network.
Laura Murray presented her debut picture book, Gingerbread Man Loose in the School. This fractured fairy tale is illustrated in comic strip like frames and is told in wonderful, repetitive rhyme. As a former elementary school teacher, she would begin each year by making a gingerbread man and having the students follow the crumbs throughout the school to find the lost man.
Matt Phelan is the author-illustrator of The Storm in the Barn, and illustrator of many books including: Always, I'll Be There, The Higher Power of Lucky, and Spilling Ink.
Author Laurel Snyder has written such titles as: Penny Dreadful, Any Which Wall, Inside the Slidy Diner, and Bigger Than a Breadbox.
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