That was how the book started in my mind, and I played with the idea for years.
As an example, when I started working on the Santa book, in the beginning I just thought it was really funny that Santa would be a toy tester. Even if I do find it, I often don't know until many years later why it was compelling to me. If I can't find it, I won't be that engaged in the idea anymore. If I'm sort of hooked into an idea, I try to play it out in my mind to see whether there's something there to follow - what I would call the beating heart of that idea. On your website you ask yourself a bunch of questions that you say people always ask you, and one of them is, "What is more important, style or concept?" Your answer: "I think the most important thing is emotional engagement." How does an artist create that? As you've certainly done in this book. So many of the pictures choke me up - they would probably have me sobbing right now if I didn't have a reputation to maintain. RS: The emotional quality of the story is incredibly powerful. Roger Sutton: This is a really amazing book. Wordless, but rich with narrative and emotional resonance, The Farmer and the Clown portrays an unlikely friendship in which one party seems to rescue the other - but maybe that's exactly backwards. Two-time Caldecott Honor recipient (for A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever and All the World) Marla Frazee's newest picture book The Farmer and the Clown is already garnering talk of award recognition. A wonderful late-winter reminder that summer is coming, this will cheer up audiences by encouraging them to reflect on glorious summers past and even more glorious summers to anticipate.Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. The result is just realistic enough to be perfect, a grade-schoolers idyllic summer with limited demands for learning and bettering and a whole lot of reveling in kid priorities. Add in some snarky and boisterous grade-school humor, and you've got A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever.This sweetly captures the pleasures of youthful time-wasting in the company of your best friend with a keen understanding that those pleasures are best when theyre unsentimental. Truly stellar summer books, such as Lynne Rae Perkins' Pictures from Our Vacation can evoke the weirdness and unexpected magic of summers free-form experiences even in the darkest season. "Summer can seem a long time away during the colder portions of the year, and summer books can hold a special promise and poignancy in the long run-up until the months of freedom.
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