First Draft Episode #275: Carson Ellis

Carson Ellis, author and illustrator of bestselling picture books Home and Caldecott Honor book Du Iz Tak?, talks about her newest picture book, In the Half Room.

This episode is brought to you by Everything I Thought I Knew, by Shannon Takoaka, out from Candlewick Press October 13, 2020.

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

• Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry and Wesley Dennis

• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

• Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak

• The New Yorker

• Mac Barnett’s Children’s Book Proclamation (more mac-barnett-spearheads-a-picture-book-manifesto.html">context about that proclamation), signed by—among others—Carson Ellis, Jon Klassen (listen to his episode of First Draft here), Dan Santat (listen to his First Draft episode here)

• Ursula Nordstrom, legendary picture book editor at HarperCollins

• Shel Silverstein, author and illustrator of The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and A Light in the Attic

• Ruth Krauss wrote and Maurice Sendak illustrated classic picture books such as Open House for Butterflies and A Very Special House

• Colin Meloy, guitarist and singer for The Decemberists and author of the Wildwood series

  The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kids

• Castaways and Cutouts album art

• q-a-with-children-s-book-agent-steven-malk.html">Steven Malk, literary agent with

• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

• The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, illustrated by Carson Ellis

• The Composer is Dead by Lemony Snicket (a.k.a. Daniel Handler), illustrated by Carson Ellis

• Stagecoach Sal by Deborah Hopkinson

• The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper, illustrated by Carson Ellis

• The Darkness Rising by Susan Cooper

• People by Blexbolex

• Richard Scarry, author and illustrator of Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Town, and Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks From A to Z

• how-i-landed-in-children-s-books.html">Elizabeth Bicknell, editor at Candlewick

• Maile Meloy , author of The Apothecary, Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It, and more, is Carons’s sister in law

   

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