An Interview with Mini Grey _ CLIP 34

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(from http:www.randomhouse.com) In this show An interview with author Mini Grey Belated Happy Birthday and Congratulations to Charles Cadenhead for winning two Podcast Peer Awards Books Mentioned: Traction Man The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon The Very Smart Pea and the Princess To Be Podcasts and Websites Mentioned: Just One More Book Mostly News Thanks To: Mini Grey, Andrea Ross of Just One More Book, Kristen, and Erin, Anindita, Heidi Estrin, and Leslie Jones Let me know where you are: Click on 'Join the CLIP Frappr Map' in the menu bar. Post a comment: Click the comment button below or leave a voice mail by calling 206-350-6204 or e-mailing at clippodcast[at]gmail[dot]com Produced by: Andy Bilodeau An Interview with Mini Grey _ CLIP 34 Intro Hello Everyone! Here we are with show #34 of the CLIP Podcast. Tonight I have for you a long-awaited interview with Mini Grey author of Traction Man and The Adventures of the Dish and Spoon amongst other books. We did the interview using e-mail so this evening Andrea Ross of Just One More Book very graciously agreed to read Miniacirc;euro;trade;s responses. So thank you very much to Mini for the interview and to Andrea for helping me with tonightacirc;euro;trade;s show! What I like most about Traction Man and Adventures with Dish and Spoon is the way both texts offer different perspectives on familiar characters such as superheroes and nursery rhyme characters. Traction man is also packed with a number of social issues that create space for taking up notions of gender, war, identity construction, positioning, and so forth. Midtro What are three things you think we should know about you? I have a nearly four month old son called Herbie, a partner called Tony and a cat called Bonzetta who is sitting next to the computer keyboard right now. I live in Oxford and love walking up hills and along rivers. What motivates or inspires you to write books like Traction Man or The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon? I love picture books acirc;euro;ldquo; with picture books you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time. Because even very young people are expert readers of pictures, you can convey very complex and subtle messages through pictures that youacirc;euro;trade;d need loads of words to explain. Making a picture book is also a bit like making your own film acirc;euro;ldquo; and you can make ANYTHING YOU WANT happen, however impossible! In Traction Man the environment is actually very ordinary acirc;euro;ldquo; so the fun is in inventing all the objects that will be there acirc;euro;ldquo; or trying to imagine ordinary objects seen from a slightly different angle. For example, when I was trying to work out the underwater world of the Sink, I was trying to imagine a sink that Jacques Cousteau might explore, and what sort of undersea creatures could soggy cornflakes and tomato peel and bacon rind turn into, and how in that environment a dishcloth could become like a lethal giant squid acirc;euro;ldquo; so itacirc;euro;trade;s perhaps trying to give ordinary objects a secret life. I think sometimes it is more inspiring to take a quite ordinary situation and introduce one extraordinary thing into it acirc;euro;ldquo; than it is to imagine a whole amazing world where absolutely anything can happen. I think it can encourage creativity to begin with a few limitations. And itacirc;euro;trade;s about seeing the analogies between things, using your imagination acirc;euro;ldquo; how a trainer could be a bit like a spaceship, and kitchen unit could be a bit like a cliff, a bit of lateral thinkingacirc;euro;brvbar; If you imagine being about 30cm high, just about everything in a house turns into an adventurous environment acirc;euro;ldquo; a bath becomes an ocean, a shrubbery becomes a jungle acirc;euro;ldquo; and just imagine if you met the house...

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