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I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.

Lynne Rae Perkins

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Lynne Rae Perkins
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 31
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A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.
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I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.
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I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.
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It would look like a notebook with dividers, and there'd be different subjects and things [preschoolers] could do, so that they could feel like they were going to school also.
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There will be scenes in a movie where people are walking through the park, or through a forest, and you're seeing the flickering leaves around them, and they're walking, but you're also hearing their words. It's an interaction between where they are and what they're saying that's both visual and verbal.
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I do like to be surprised.
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In some ways I'm very structured.
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I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.
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The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.
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I'm heavily influenced by Edward Ardizzone, how he has people talking in little speech bubbles. I love those. And also Edward Gorey. Those are two of my favorite people.
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One of my favorite moments in that book [As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth] was when something happened that I had no idea was going to happen.
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I made a drawing for a book I'm working . It's a little drawing of a girl who's ashamed and upset and hides in the corner of the closet. It's the kind of drawing that I feel like I'm really good at.
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We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.
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Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.
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I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent it to her, she said kids this age don't want pictures in their books.
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If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well.
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I'm German, after all.
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It's one of my favorite times of day. I'll have an array of notes, things that I want to think about. Something will start to take shape, and I'll play around with it. It's not usually an intense time. It's sort of a playful time. But it's when some really good thoughts arise.
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I think we're conditioned by watching movies.
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Often they do go back and forth the whole way, and I don't know until the very end what the last line of the book is going to be. That was true here - the very last line of the book was the last thing that happened.
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