Another Illustrator, Jeremy Tankard had his Editor suggest he try his hand at writing something of his own, to go with his hilariously simple, fun art style, thus "Grumpy Bird" (and the rest of GB adventures) and "Me Hungry" was born. Another publishing story I always love is Alvina's meeting Peter Brown (at a party I think it was? Alvina?) and loving his art so much, wondered if he would like to try writing. The animator then walked the dummy in to KidsCan press (owned by Nelvana) It was accepted and went on to win recognition and awards. Another story of "Illustrator gets publisher for writer" happened here in Canada, when a very new writer found an animator, working at Nelvana, willing to illustrate his book. Libby, it's always interesting when you hear tales of book submissions that work against the "rules" of publishing (or what we are told are the rules and generally are for most of us) I would love to hear more of them, I have a few. I love this story on story and am (sort of patiently) waiting for part 2.
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