tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post5451034006141399357..comments2024-03-07T04:13:36.330-06:00Comments on The Storyteller's Inkpot: Worth a Thousand WordsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-57094150696407805432010-10-23T07:47:53.459-05:002010-10-23T07:47:53.459-05:00I would also like to add, I'm a little late on...I would also like to add, I'm a little late on this thread, that the forgotten piece to all of this is that p.b's are the literature to thousands of kids who are visual learners. I have two daughters, one who at a young age listened to books with no pictures at all, and one who will only want books with pictures. I wonder if we couldn't go back to the olden days when p.b.'s were allowed to have more than 800 words. They told a story and had pictures. I know it's a crazy idea...I would think this is a marketing question too. How are these books marketed? And do the marketers understand the value of them. I would suggest they do not, but every single teacher in America does.molly b. burnhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03244578003834630167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-9257516581200500662010-10-22T12:03:42.507-05:002010-10-22T12:03:42.507-05:00Anne, funny you should mention it. I do feel more ...Anne, funny you should mention it. I do feel more handsome since joining the faculty. Maybe we need a group photo shot next residency to show off all our sex appeal, zombielike or not.Claire Rudolf Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11520445613916601377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-82481763045483322782010-10-21T18:18:29.791-05:002010-10-21T18:18:29.791-05:00Peter Rabbit being chased by a zombified Mr. McGre...Peter Rabbit being chased by a zombified Mr. McGregor, maybe?Andy Cochranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13488591613265971587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-20224480171956765142010-10-20T16:17:29.535-05:002010-10-20T16:17:29.535-05:00"it's how newspaper reporters feel everyd..."it's how newspaper reporters feel everyday..." and it's even worse if said reporter has traded in their profession for the one cited in that article.Bonnie-Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10979141467121394767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-81394669351937804052010-10-20T16:03:39.320-05:002010-10-20T16:03:39.320-05:00Dystopian zombie bunnies.
That would make an AWES...Dystopian zombie bunnies.<br /><br />That would make an AWESOME picture book.Melinda R. Cordellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02924404257237523106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-56662651862040111852010-10-20T13:15:23.690-05:002010-10-20T13:15:23.690-05:00With bunnies.With bunnies.Anne Ursuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09864047397813748310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-72400115654552028982010-10-20T13:00:54.824-05:002010-10-20T13:00:54.824-05:00When I started publishing (1995) "they" ...When I started publishing (1995) "they" pronounced the YA novel dead. Picture books were peaking. The world couldn't get enough of them--shelling out for hardbacks. Said it was like buying the art as well. My editor wouldn't even breathe on my contemporary realistic manuscript, so I happily, joyfully did picture books. Ten years later I gave the same YA manuscript to the same editor and he offered a contract right away, and for another YA, too. Now all I want to do is picture books again, and my publisher has strictly said NO, WRITE A ZOMBIE NOVEL instead.<br /><br />Anne is right, it all comes around. Or as another sage Hamline colleague once said, "sometimes you're on top of the game, and sometimes you're under it."<br /><br />(by the way, I found that article completely lame it had nothing to do with books, and it's about two years behind.)<br /><br />(and also, by the way, I am not writing a zombie novel--in fact I have a new publisher and a pic book coming out.)Lisa Jahn-Cloughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01167850118852016249noreply@blogger.com