The first ingredient of any picture book is a story. After we find our stories, we writers need to polish them a bit–but the effort begins with a story. I am an advocate of looking within for our stories–at looking at the memories from our pasts. I have recently studied the massive library of Tomie…
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Tomie dePaola Autobiographical Picture Books
In her biography, Tomie dePaola His Art & His Stories, Barbara Elleman said the following about dePaola’s tendency to write about himself and about his family: Autobiographical Tales The Beginning of the 26 Fairmount Series “His father, an ardent photographer and also a home-movie buff, rarely let a birthday party, summer picnic at a beach,…