"Stuff I Remember" is truly delightful. Blurbarian Stuart Scolnik describes it thus:
Our Dad sketched his childhood memories on a sketch pad. The images were sorted, printed and presented on his 80th birthday, with love from his family. The illustrations artistically tell the story of a simpler time and a boy's intimate relationship with a world around him called the Bronx. Dad's attention to detail helps us revisit the objects, experiences and emotions of his happy youth. We hope you enjoy his journey.I did! I enjoyed Willard's sense of humor too. You don't have to know Willard to enjoy this book, but by the time you finish it, you'll probably wish you did.
Ideas:
- Learn to sketch! I'll never be an artist, but art doesn't have to be fine to be fun.
- When there's no photo to illustrate a story you want to tell, creating a simple drawing could really personalize a page of text. Consider whether such a drawing would fit with the mood of your book--is your book formal/scholarly/research-oriented or informal/warm & fuzzy/personal?
4 comments:
Absolutely wonderful!!
So glad you posted your dad's sketches!
Not my dad's sketches, Dorene... although I wish my dad would do something like that! This is just another very cool book someone else made using Blurb. I'm having so much fun doing the Exemplar series... other people have some pretty awesome ideas!
Delightful! Now I know where you get your artistic talent and sense of whimsey - both as delightful as that of your dad's.
Aw, Joan, you're too sweet! But it looks like my previous comment and yours passed each other like two cyberspaceships in the night, LOL!
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