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Author: Barbara Knutson
Illustrator: Barbara Knutson
Published: 2004 Carolrhoda Books (on JOMB)
ISBN: 1575056577
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A spunky free-ranging guinea pig hero, an equally lovable, gullible villain and the happy mash-up of several familiar folk tales make this gorgeously illustrated trickster tale a story worth repeated re-enactment in the schoolyard with friends (really!).
Other books mentioned:
I'm in the middle of reading the page proofs for the UK Puffin edition of Nim's Island. When I came to the description of Nim lighting a fire:
"She unscrewed the lens from her spyglass. She pointed it so that the sun shone a bright beam on her kindling. A brown patch grew and glowed - and a small flame sparkled on the dry palm fronds..."
I suddenly remembered that I'd written that after visiting a friend who'd just had a fire in her living room. Her reading glasses had been lying on the newspaper on the coffee table - in just the right way that the sun hit them and heated up the newspaper till it burst into flames.
Would I have thought of Nim making fire this way if my friend hadn't told me of her scare? Maybe; maybe not. That's why I love writing - because I never know what I'm going to discover till it happens.
Right now (at least once I've finished reading these proofs) I need to discover whether the pony tail I saw the other day will find a place in the current work in progress. I think it belongs there - but I won't know for sure till I write it.
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I am delighted to have received news of the this podcast on Barbara Knutson’s Love and Roast Chicken!
I am Barbara’s husband. Last week marked three years since Barbara passed away at age 45, but it is my sincere hope that her spirit continues to touch the
lives of children through her books long into the future.
A few scattered notes of possible interest:
As I suspect you are aware, her website has some author’s notes about the origin of each folktale, as well as some insights into her process in turning these cultural treasures into picturebooks. Barbaraknutson.com
She first encountered this folktale while we living in Peru, finding various versions throughout the Andes. We hiked deep into the mountain regions of Ecuador, Peru, and Boliva during her research. While she conducted most research for L&RC in Spanish, she also learned as much of the story in Quechwa and Ayamara as possible, the languages spoken in the highlands. She enjoyed the trading of folktales and the exchange would often fuel the evening conversations around steaming bowls of potato soup.
Barbara loved language as well as art, frequently reading her pleasure novels in French and Spanish.
Nature was also a passion, and was meticulus she was about the authenticity of her illustrations in this regard. Careful scrutiny of her books will show the stars as they appear in the southern hemisphere, the plants and animal species to be those that she had observed. She kept detailed sketch books to record her observations. I know she felt it essential to convey multiple aspects of the culture in retelling of the folktale, even the cadence of the prose. (She was an accomplished flute and recorder player, so I think language was something she observed and felt as well.)
I hope some of this is interesting and informative to the discussion.