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Mar 05, 2015mmcbeth29 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Marie-Louise Gay begins by talking about how she had many questions as a child. Then she talks about how children ask her many questions now. She then moves on to her writing process. She talks about how she begins with possible stories and then rewrites or starts over as needed. She includes a story within this story as she shows her writing process. The illustrations are done in a mix of watercolor, pencil, pastel, ink, colored pencil and collage. They are colorful and interesting, but terrible busy. I had a very difficult time following this book. There were children on most pages with many speech bubbles that were telling a separate story from the main text. My eyes often didn't know where to go next. I felt as if I were reading a story within a story within a story and I didn't enjoy digging in to find what was most important. If reading this aloud to share information about the writing process, I would recommend reading it yourself fully first and choosing which text to read rather than reading all of it. This would be far less confusing to children.