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“All picture books are branded with the personalities of their illustrations” I never really thought about this before!

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I thought it was interesting that authors need to be open and accepting of possible extensions or rethinkings of their original text through the lens of the illustrator because the artistic eye and level of pictures can add to a text where the author might not have expected.

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"Artistic style is like fingerprints, individual and revealing. No two people bring exactly the same skills or exactly the same baggage to their creative work" (p. 41)

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Some authors provide images through their words.

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Some authors provide images through their words.

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“They ask themselves the same questions and came up with vastly different answers.”

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Illustrators bring out different moods, impacts, and implications of the text.

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“Once the text is out of her hands, the book is no longer solely her own”

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“All picture books are branded with the personalities of their illustrators. Those personalities, as reflected in the art, are a vital and inseparable part of the experience of a picture book, and the more inspired the artist is, the more excited, the more involved in bringing text to life an artist is, the better the book will be.” (Page 44)

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Without the writer, there is nothing. Although the writers needs to understand that once the text is out of her hands, the book is no longer solely her own.

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"As an editor of picture books. I stand in the balance between the inspiration of the author and the inspiration of the illustrator... I am in the position to watch the spell being created, to see the pieces come together, and to witness the merging of two visions into one book" (p. 41).

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"As an editor of picture books. I stand in the balance between the inspiration of the author and the inspiration of the illustrator... I am in the position to watch the spell being created, to see the pieces come together, and to witness the merging of two visions into one book" (p. 41).

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"The editor "stands in the balance between the inspiration of the author and the inspiration of the artist."

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"When you take the words out of the picture books, there is still a lot to discuss."

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If you take the text out of a picture book, there is still a lot to discuss.

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If you take the text out of a picture book, there is still a lot to discuss.

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An illustrator's personality is a "vital and inseparable part of the experience of a picture book, and the more inspired the artist is, the more excited, the more involved in bringing a text to life an artist is, the better the book will be." (pg. 44)

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Illustrator's can take their own interpretation of the words and create pictures based off of what they think the author is trying to say.

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“… but if you take the text of a picture book out of the equation, there is still a lot to discuss.”

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Authors cannot try to tell illustrators what to do - it communicates a lack of respect (p. 49) -- I think the play between author and illustrator is an important and complex experience -- but it can be challenging for some to let go!

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Illustrators have the task of creating a visual world that corresponds with the writer's words.

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Illustrators must make choices about how to fully realize the writer's words.

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It stood out to me that editors can act as a happy medium between illustrator and author bringing out the best in both of them and their work to best suit the story as a whole.

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“A picture book belongs equally to the author and the illustrator

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The text descriptions leave “room for the art to help convey the story.”

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Writer's leave their book in the hands of the illustrators to make the pictures. Telling them what to draw is demeaning to an illustrator.

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You cannot predict nor control the book as an author. If youre not comfortable with this then you shouldn’t write picture books. I like how frank this is. The author must have trust and faith in an illustrator which has to be scary. That’s part of the job of writing picture books. 

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You cannot predict nor control the book as an author. If youre not comfortable with this then you shouldn’t write picture books. I like how frank this is. The author must have trust and faith in an illustrator which has to be scary. That’s part of the job of writing picture books. 

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It doesn’t work for a writer to tell the artist what to do. There needs to be a mutual respect for each other’s craft in constructing and designing a picture book.

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The more inspired the artist is, the more excited, the more involved in bringing a text to life an artist is, and the better the book will be! However the artist must be sympathetic to the authors vision.

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Editors are tasked with "merging the vision of two ideas into one book" (p. 41)

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A picture book belongs equally to the author and illustrator. Therefore, the author of a picture book must leave room for the art and not be too heavy on the descriptions.

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It can be important to match illustrators and artists well so that they can not only have a god working relationship but so that their individual strengths/interests/passions can work in tandem to support the story.

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Like Hoppe said, there can't be a picture book with no pictures, otherwise it's a poem, short story, etc. The pictures enhance the words of the author, or sometimes even take the job of the words.

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Like Hoppe said, there can't be a picture book with no pictures, otherwise it's a poem, short story, etc. The pictures enhance the words of the author, or sometimes even take the job of the words.

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“The picture book author holes get text will entice and inspire the artist” (pg. 45).

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Illustrator is carefully chosen who would cast a similar vision as the author.

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“The writer distill.”

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"Editors and art directors are
not naive about the importance
of finding artists who resonate
to an author’s text. We look
hard and consider not only who
has an appropriate style, but
who has the right heart." (pg. 48)

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"A picture book text is not finished until the picture book art is finished."

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“The illustrator expands.”

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Writers of novels must create images through words. An example Hoppe gives is Charlotte's Web.  Writers of picture books have to focus on using words to describe internal attitudes "that is hard to illustrate and can be most concisely captured with words."

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The editor has to consider who has the right heart and appropriate style

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"It is our charge to take the text and pair it with a visual storyteller who is moved to tell the same story through her related but different skills.

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"It is our charge to take the text and pair it with a visual storyteller who is moved to tell the same story through her related but different skills.

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Commissioning the illustrator

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"It is vital that the writer extends the same respect to the illustrator. It doesn’t work for a writer-or an editor-to attempt to
compensate for not being a skilled draftsman by telling the artist
what to do. It indicates a lack of faith in the artist, and even worse
a lack of respect, to pepper a manuscript with instructions for how a scene is to be conceived of and executed visually."

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Must allow for creative freedom from both the author and illustrator.

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Writers have to be flexible and understand that the illustrator will most likely not interpret their words in the same way. The vision the illustrator creates may be completely different than the writer's original vision in their mind as they were writing the story.

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Writers have to be flexible and understand that the illustrator will most likely not interpret their words in the same way. The vision the illustrator creates may be completely different than the writer's original vision in their mind as they were writing the story.

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Page 41, editors “balance between the inspiration of the author and the inspiration of the artist.”

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And editor gets to, “witness the merging of two visions into one book.”

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Creative freedom

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"As a writer, you work very hard for your words and you have a distinct
and hard-won vision. It’s up to you to decide whether and how
much to share."