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As an illustrator, words frightened Don Tate. After all, artists create pictures—they don’t write stories. So how did a non-word person go about writing award-winning picture books (ones that he did not illustrate)?
In this session, Don will reveal all of that, discussing both sides of the bookmaking process. How do creators of picture book biographies find and then zero in on the right information? How do illustrators find their writing voice? And what about research: what to include and leave out? Don will detail his process of planning a story from initial inspiration through creating thumbnail sketches and dummy books. The session will also include a hands-on mining-your-memories exercise.
When: Saturday, October 12th, 1:30 pm to 4 pm
Where: Seattle Central Library (1000 Fourth Ave, Seattle 98104)
Price: $65 SCBWI Members; $75 Non-Members
Don Tate is an award-winning illustrator of numerous critically acclaimed books for children, including No Small Potatoes: Junios G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas; Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions; The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch; Hope’s Gift; and many others.He is also an award-winning author. Some of his books for children include Strong As Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became the Strongest Man on Earth; Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton; and It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw.
Don is a founding host of the The Brown Bookshelf—a blog dedicated to books for African American young readers; and he is a member of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign, created to address the lack of diverse, non-majority narratives in children’s literature. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his family.