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Visualizing the story

Kate Feiffer’s background as a television news reporter taught her to write to the pictures. Jules Feiffer says that picture book making is kind of like film; the text is the starting point for storyboards.

The King's Breakfast

Julie Andrews and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton read one of their favorite family poems.

Collaboration

Kate and Jules Feiffer have an easy collaborative working style. They vividly remember working together on Which Puppy? and My Side of the Car.

Sleight of hand

Jules Feiffer describes cartooning as a kind of visual magic act.

Family stories

The Daddy Mountain and There’s a Zoo in My Room were inspired by Jules Feiffer’s granddaughter and daughter.

Playing favorites

 Jules Feiffer shares his fondness for By the Side of the Road, a picture book with a not-so-happy ending.

Comics

Jules Feiffer fell in love with American comic strips as a young kid in the 1930s and 1940s.

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