| This is what Denise Fleming has to say about her books. |
| I design my own books from
beginning to end. The pictures are full of bright colors, but
very close up because I want to get really close to things and touch
them. So I do the pictures that way. You notice I don't
step way back in my books. It's like you are right there, part of
it. In the Tall,
Tall Grass was the
first book that I wrote and illustrated in the paper making
technique. I'll see young children actually try to pick the
caterpillar up off the page. In Time to Sleep I wanted to put all the senses in there. Each creature, before they can go to sleep, before they can rest for the winter, they have to tell someone else that it is time to go to sleep. It is that passing it on, being responsible for someone else. That is really what my books are about. Just the joy of being alive. Copyright ©2003 TeachingBooks.net LLC. All rights reserved. |