This week the topic of focus for Children's literature was Biographies and memoirs. in our class meeting we were luck enough to have the author Lisa Cline-Ramsome come and discuss with us the process of creating a book and the total time period from start to finish that it takes to create a book. I never realized how long it can take for a book to be published. Lisa told us that it takes a minimum of two years for a book to be published. when starting off the writing process she have to do plenty or research on the person she intends to write about and this can take several months and trips to the library before she can even begin the writing process. When she is finally finished the writing process she has to submit the work to several publishers to see if they would like to have her book published and can only submit the book to one publisher at a time so this tends to slow down the process because it can take several weeks or months for the publisher to get to the book . after that step the next step is to have an illustrator start creating the images for the book . Her husband is the illustrator for her books but the two do not discuss the process of how it is going because it can cause conflict between the two. The illustrating process can take up to a year because there is also plenty of studying that goes on during this time. Mr Ransome has to study the time period including everything from clothing to house decorations in order to make sure that all of the elements are correct . it was nice to learn about how she makes the books for children historically accurate when the things that the people in her books faced may be difficult to explain to children of such a young age. In the book "Words Set Me Free" Mrs. Ransome explains the life of Fredrick Douglas and the hardships he faced being a slave. The wording she used made the story inviting while explaining the terrible treatment and life that Mr. Douglas had to face before he gained his freedom.
No comments:
Post a Comment