Marla Frazee says it took almost a decade to learn how to add her own voice to her illustrations—a voice that deepened the story and resonated with the text in a different way—so she is grateful to fans who notice that she does indeed draw stories. The lesson required Frazee to move away from a commercial style where generic children have more appeal, toward a more personal approach where the children in her illustrations have their own personalities and their own lives off the page. “Kids do read the pictures in a way adults have lost,” she says. More…