1. Marla Frazee Illustrator Study

2. Biography ✴ Born and raised in Los Angeles ✴ Earned Bachelor of Fine Arts from Art Center College of Design ✴ Married to photographer Tim Bradley ✴ Has three sons and a dog named Rocket ✴ After college worked in toy design ✴ In addition to writing and illustrating, Ms. Frazee teaches illustration at the Art Center College of Design ✴ First book illustrated in 1990 World Famous Muriel and the Magic Mystery

3. Frazee works from a cottage in her back yard. She knew from the time she was in third grade she wanted to be an illustrator. Where The Wild Things Are and Blueberries for Sal have been great inspirations for her.

4. Interview with Marla frazee

5. Advice to Aspiring Young Illustrators “Get to know your characters, inside and out. Do not be afraid to dig deep, because that is where you are going to find the beating heart of what you are trying to do. Revise, revise, revise. Each revision brings you closer to your true intention. Stay open to surprises. Feel it. If you aren't communicating in an emotional way, then you aren't communicating.”

6. A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever Ms. Frazee wrote and illustrated A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever. She earned a Caldecott Honor Award as well as a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor for her work. The style is similar to that of a comic book which gives the book visual appeal.

7. All the World Ms. Frazee also won a Caldecott Honor Award for All the World. Written by Liz Garton Scanlon, All the World also was a New York Times Best Illustrated book.

8. Clementine Series “ I wanted the Clementine books to reflect the same period of time when Louis Darling was illustrating the Beverly Cleary books. I have been very inspired by his work and the work of other great pen-and-ink illustrators, too, like Robert Lawson, Ernest Shepard, Doris Burns, and Chris Riddell. As for the character of Clementine, I have long been infatuated with Little Sal, the protagonist in Robert McCloskey's Blueberries for Sal, and, it goes without saying, Cleary's Ramona.” Frazee equates the pen-and- ink drawings required for Clementine to walking a tightrope. She finds it scary because one little mistake and you have to start all over.

9. The Seven Silly Eaters “Using color and composition, the illustrator can create emotional impact that may or may not be in the text. As with cinema, the combination of words and pictures create a more complete sensory experience. Somber or cheery tones, oppressive or minute forms, frenetic or calming imagery all greatly affect the story itself.”

10. Santa Claus the World’s Number One Toy Expert “Whether our characters are cartooned, stylized, or realistic, they have to be TRUE. If we want our readers to feel deeply about our characters, we need to use everything we’ve discovered about ourselves and others, and show their humanity. We will know much more about them then we will ultimately show in the book, and that will give them depth. Plus, we’ve got to draw them consistently.”

11. Roller Coaster “Illustrators create a visual world the reader enters into. We turn the light on, and hopefully allow the reader to SEE the story being told.”

12. Bibliography As Illustrator World Famous Muriel and the Magic Mystery That Kookoory! The Seven Silly Eaters On the Morn of Mayfest Harriet, You’ll Drive Me Wild! Everywhere Babies Mrs. Biddlebox New Baby Train Clementine Series All the World As Author and Illustrator Roller Coaster Santa Claus, The World’s Number One Toy Expert Walk On, a Guide for Babies of All Ages A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever The Boss Baby

13. Sources Marla Frazee website http://www.marlafrazee.com/ http://www.marlafrazee.com MaryAnn Hoberman website http://www.maryannhoberman.com/books/sevenSillyEaters.html http://www.maryannhoberman.com/books/sevenSillyEaters.html Titlewave http://flr.follett.com http://flr.follett.com Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marla_Frazee YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us_950egH0E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us_950egH0E