Author/Illustrator of graphic novels & picture books | GRAY SQUIRREL LOSES IT! (Random House), THE STORY SPINNERS (Aladdin/S&S, 2025),+ more | Rep @marchsoloway
May 13, 2020 • 19 tweets • 10 min read
Just got my ARC’s for THIS IS A SEAHORSE! (@AlbertWhitman, 2020) Since people seem curious about the process of making a picture book, I figured I'd write up a THREAD breaking down the choices I made when designing the first book in this series, THIS IS A SEA COW (2019).
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First, a quick jump back in time to 2015 when I attended my first @SCBWI conference. @dsantat spoke about book design. “Form follows function.” It was a lesson that really resonated with me and I became determined to apply what I’d learned to the dummy I was working on.
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