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Who Wrote That? Meet Marla Frazee

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Who Wrote That? Meet Marla Frazee

Who Wrote That? Meet Marla Frazee

July 27, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

A bi-weekly feature profiling the talented authors and illustrators who bring children’s books to life.















“Dear Ms. Frazee: I love the stories that you draw.”

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…

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