Anne Landsman
| Friday, May 8, 2009 9:27AM | | | | The Third Bird | Posted By: Anne Landsman
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| Tags: Andrea Davis Pinkney, Mariken Jongman, Shaun Tan, Neil Gaiman | | | | The Scholastic Auditorium was packed for the event “Leaps and Bounds, Fits and Starts: The Evolution of a Children’s Book Writer” featuring panelists Neil Gaiman, Mariken Jongman, Shaun Tan, with Andrea Davis Pinkney as the participating moderator. Unlike the children’s book event I had added the day before with its older audience, the audience was young (mostly twenty-somethings) and restive, ready to be entertained. Every self-deprecating remark or wry joke by one of the panelists was greeted with gales of laughter, lots of clapping. The buzz in the room was palpable. The confluence of illustration and text in the graphic novels and cartoons of Gaiman and Tan added an extra kick, the engine behind the buzz. As publishers (and writers) bemoan the state of... | | | | | | | |
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