Marla Frazee, THE FARMER AND THE CIRCUS
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
"When I'm drawing pictures for children in picture books, I know they're going to get stuff that maybe they don't have the actual vocabulary to articulate, but they will take in the story on a really deep level." Zibby talks with Marla Frazee, the author, and illustrator for favorites like Boss Baby and The Farmer and the Circus, about how she always knew she wanted to work with picture books. Marla also shares how adult emotions like heartbreak have inspired her children's books and the advice she tries to pass on to all of the artists who take her illustration class.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
| 0:12.2 | which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology. |
| 0:16.8 | All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm the editor-in-chief of M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium. |
| 0:25.0 | And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there. |
| 0:29.1 | And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:32.9 | And my website is Zibby Owens.com. |
| 0:34.8 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | Another day of my book blast. |
| 0:46.4 | Enjoy these children's book, one children's book, one middle grade book, and actually one of them is co-hosted by my children, which you will figure out if you listen to both. So enjoy. |
| 0:51.7 | Marla Frazy is the author and illustrator of The Farmer and the Circus. |
| 0:56.6 | Marla was awarded a Caldecott honor for all the world, and a couple of boys have the best |
| 1:01.6 | week ever, and the Golden Globe Horn Book Award for Picture Book for The Farmer and the |
| 1:06.9 | clown. She is the author, illustrator of rolleraster, Walk On, Santa Claus, the world's |
| 1:12.3 | number one toy expert, the boss baby, which is also a movie, which everybody should watch, |
| 1:18.4 | and boot and shoe, as well as the illustrator of many other books, including the seven silly |
| 1:22.3 | eaters, stars, the New York Times bestselling Clementine series, which by the way is so, so good, and God got a dog. Marla has three grown sons, a little free library in her front yard, and a studio in her backyard under an avocado tree. Doesn't that sound nice? Welcome, Marla. Thanks for coming on. Moms don't have time to read books. Thank you, it's so good to be here. I'm really, thank you for having me. |
| 1:44.8 | Oh, it's a pleasure. As I've told you, I know this has taken several tries to connect, |
| 1:49.5 | but my kids throughout the years have loved the things that you've worked on, and especially |
| 1:54.4 | the Clementine series and all those illustrations. And I read the Clementine series with my |
| 1:58.9 | older daughter and my younger daughter, like mostly |
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