Ways of Telling: Fourteen Interviews With Masters of the Art of the Pict: Fourteen Interviews With the Masters of the Art of the Picture Book

About this book

A picture book is a dialogue between two worlds: the world of images and the world of words. This is a book of conversations about that beguiling dialogue. In fourteen extraordinary interviews, Leonard S. Marcus, award-winning historian, critic, and scholar of children's literature, draws on the depth of his own rare knowledge and insight to spark thoughtful, personal, and often humorous discussion with artists and writers who have made lasting contributions to the illustrated literature of childhood. Readers of this spirited collection will be rewarded with an appreciation of the hidden artistry and complex legacies that inform and animate the child-sized blocks of type and brilliant colors of a unique genre.The conversations here present an exciting foray into the creative process. Along the way, in unusually candid exchanges, these picture book makers reveal their clear-sighted approaches, often hard-won, to life, art, and childhood. Ways of Telling will surprise and inspire artist, writers, and anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of a picture book.