![]() IF YOU WERE TO DIE AND COME BACK AS A CHARACTER FROM CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, WHO WOULD YOU LIKE IT TO BE? But somehow, even with all that, most people can still recognize that it’s my work. I have multiple personality disorder for sure, and can never stick to any one style or look for long. This is a cheat, but I think my work doesn’t have a defining characteristic, and that’s its defining characteristic. IF YOUR OWN WORK HAS A DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC, WHAT WHAT IS IT A small sample of the many styles of LeUyen Pham. Not sure that that one is much of a universal answer, but it is so in my case.Ħ. Maybe it’s because I love reading books aloud, and now that I’ve got kids, I read them everything from picture books to chapter books to non-fiction, and the ones that I love reading the most and they love hearing the most are the ones with just lovely lovely writing. Even if a story is awful, if an author knows how to parse her words and string together things that sound lovely, I’ll stick through to the end. This might be a simple answer, but honestly? Good writing. WHICH QUALITY DO YOU THINK IS MOST IMPORTANT IN GOOD CHILDREN’S LITERATURE? Rowling (because I’m a Harry Potter freak - yes, you heard it here first!), Elizabeth George Speare (because oh how much do I love “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”?!), and Calvin (who would, of course, bring Hobbes).ĥ. I’ve pick Margaret Wise Brown (because I don’t know that she realized how long lasting her books would be), Edward Gorey (because the guy rocks), J.K. IF YOU WERE THROWING A KINDERLIT PARTY FOR FIVE GUESTS, WHO WOULD YOU INVITE? Piggle-Wiggle, Eloise, and his own Where’s Wallace?, which I still adore.Ĥ. As for illustrator, I was huge fan of Hillary Knight. Beverly Cleary, because she got me hooked on reading series-style books, and Judy Blume, because the lady told it as it is. ![]() WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE CHILDREN’S BOOK AUTHOR? ILLUSTRATOR?Īs a kid, it was a toss-up between Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume. She is my literary doppelganger for sure.ģ. I completely related to her desire for attention, her hopeless crushes, her jealousy and profound love of her older sister, everything. She was the younger, less-noticed, clever sister to Angela Wexler, family darling. WITH WHICH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE CHARACTER DO YOU MOST IDENTIFY?Īh! That’s easy: Turtle Wexler, from The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. (Editor: The Vietnamese version of Cinderella is Tam and Cam, left.)Ģ. They’re pretty grisly by western standards, with the Vietnamese version of Cinderella ending by boiling the wicked step sister in oil, and then turning her into a paste that the step mother ate without realizing. But surprisingly, there was a volume of Vietnamese fairytales at our local library, and my mother would read them to us. It was right after the Vietnam war, we had settled in Southern California, and there were very few books in Vietnamese my mother could find, as she couldn’t read English. My earliest memory are these Vietnamese fairytales my mother used to read to my little brother and I. WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST MEMORY OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE? Uyen’s latest authored book, There’s No Such Thing As Little, was released by Random House on April 14, as was The Princess in Black (written by Shannon and Dean Hale), which she illustrated.ġ. ![]() ![]() Our guest: LeUyen Pham is an author and illustrator whose books include Big Sister, Little Sister, Bedtime for Mommy (written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal), and the Little Badger book series (written by Eve Bunting) she is also the illustrator of actress Julianne Moore’s Freckleface Strawberry series. Our goals are less lofty, but hopefully will provide some insight into how your favorite authors and illustrators work and what they love. The Proust-Esque Questionnaire is based on a set of 36 standardized questions designed by Marcel Proust in the 1890’s to give an overview of the respondent’s personality.
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