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Playing favorites Jules Feiffer shares his fondness for By the Side of the Road, a picture book with a not-so-happy ending.
Imagining Milo Have you ever wondered why Milo wore a plain black tee-shirt, or how Jules Feiffer imagined what Humbug and Tock should look like?
Counterpoint For Jules Feiffer, the great fun in creating a book is in the counterpoint between what the text says and how the illustrations react.
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.
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.
Family stories The Daddy Mountain and There’s a Zoo in My Room were inspired by Jules Feiffer’s granddaughter and daughter.
Bark, George Jules Feiffer’s story Bark, George started out as a bedtime story (a “radio story”) for his two-year old daughter.
An insatiable devotion to pink, and other real-life stories Kate Feiffer says that most of her children’s books are inspired by her own family life and adventures.
Opening lines In the early stages of a book, the story can sometimes seem to write itself. Then come the careful revisions and polish.
