Hello again! As an author and an illustrator, I really enjoy studying how different illustrators work – what makes what they do, or how they tell a story, great. Isabelle Arsenault is an award winning author/illustrator who’s work is immediately recognizable as hers. It’s very different from my own, and …
Why do we fall in love with one book and not another? It’s not all because “it’s well written”, or has “stunning illustrations”, or is “a brilliant new idea”. Sometimes it has to do with where we are in our lives. Like a song that expresses the perfect mood that you’re …
VIRGINIA WOLF, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault, written by Kyo Maclear, is the story of two sisters — Vanessa and Virginia — one bright and sunny, and the other, well, wolfish. Vanessa tries everything she can think of to cheer her sister up, but nothing seems to work. In a quiet moment of resignation, …