Shooping Together With Carson Ellis

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 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




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




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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