We had a totally magical walk through picturebook author Mariesa Dulak's Storyshaped life on the podcast today, which took us all the way from Barbados to Harrogate, and plenty of other places besides! From nursery rhymes to Stephen King, and William Blake to Barbara Throws a Wobbler, join us as we follow Mariesa through the fantastic collection of tales (both written and spoken) that have shaped her work and made her the person she is today. Let's go!
Find Mariesa online at her website: www.mariesadulak.com
Books mentioned in this week's episode include Mariesa's own:
There's a Tiger on the Train (ill. Rebecca Cobb)
The Silver Shadow (ill. Alea Marley)
And the stories which shaped her include:
Nursery rhymes and songs told and sung to her by her parents
The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm
One Thousand and One Nights/Arabian Nights, folktales from the Islamic Golden Age
The Flower Fairies, by Cicely Mary Barker
The work of Alison Uttley
Winnie the Pooh: Changing Guard at Buckingham Palace, by AA Milne and EH Shepard
The work of Dr Seuss
The Chronicles of Narnia, by CS Lewis
The Worst Witch, by Jill Murphy
The work of Enid Blyton
Fungus the Bogeyman, by Raymond Briggs
The Tinderbox (fairytale)
The work of Roald Dahl
The work of Stephen King
Blubber, by Judy Blume
Forever, by Judy Blume
The work of John Agard
The work of Benjamin Zephaniah
The work of Malorie Blackman
Little Soldier, by Bernard Ashley
Flower Block, by Lanisha Butterfield (illustrated by Hoang Giang)
Out of the Blue, by Robert Tregoning (illustrated by Stef Murphy)
Songs of Innocence and Experience, by William Blake
Tyger, by SF Said
Skellig, by David Almond
Not Now, Bernard, by David McKee
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak
Barbara Throws a Wobbler, by Nadia Shireen
The work of Julia Donaldson
The work of Janet and Allan Ahlberg
The Cafe at the End of the Woods, by Mikey Please
The Full Stop that Got Away, by Laura Baker (illustrated by Nathan Reed)
Butter, by Asako Yuzuki
The Island of Brilliant podcast, hosted by Nadia Shireen and Frank Cottrell-Boyce
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