Our special guest on Storyshaped today is children's author and artist Eve McDonnell!
Eve has written the exquisite Elsetime (published by Everything With Words in 2020), and her second novel The Chestnut Roaster is coming on October 27th, 2022, also from Everything With Words. She is an artist and graphic designer, a mum of twins, and an experienced workshop facilitator - as well as a Wonderlarker, a word of her own coining, which means she tries to see the Wonder in everything... Sounds like perfect Storyshaped material!
Eve talks about the stories - and the non-fiction books - which have shaped her and her work, and which have guided her career to date, and shares some of her wisdom about how to encourage children to find themselves in stories and in books.
Eve's website: https://startsomewhereblogbyeve.wordpress.com/
The books mentioned in today's podcast include:
Elsetime by Eve McDonnell
The Chestnut Roaster by Eve McDonnell
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Supernature by Lyall Watson
Contest for the Heavens by Klaus Jensen
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Suite Francaise by Iréne Nemirovsky
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
Here is an article about the edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that Eve speaks about, including the illustrations that shaped her so much: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/w-w-denslow-illustrations-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-1900
And the Ladybird edition of The Elves and the Shoemaker is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl6QqhE7M_E
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