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✨ THE FAIRY DOGMOTHER TAKEOVER ✨ Caroline Cro

✨ THE FAIRY DOGMOTHER TAKEOVER ✨

Caroline Crowe ( @crowehoho ) and Richard Merritt ( @richarddraws ) are taking over the Little Tiger Instagram to chat about all things Fairy Dogmother! This evening, Caroline discusses some of the details that didn't quite make it into the final story.

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'One of the hardest things about writing picture books can be the very limited word count - although it’s also a huge positive because it forces you to take stock of what really matters in the story.

The Fairy Dogmother, like all my texts, went through a number of edits with both my agent @litagentclare and my editor at Little Tiger, Ellie Farmer. In fact, it started out as a whole different story before I had the idea of putting a twist in the tail of the Cinderella story and one of the most famous fairy godmothers of all.

It can be VERY hard to let go of words as a writer, but I am lucky to have an incredible agent who is also a brilliant editor and to work with some hugely talented editors at publishers like Little Tiger who make the process a little less painful!

One of the biggest cuts to The Fairy Dogmother was removing Ruff and Tuff as Cinders’ brothers to mimic the storyline in Cinderella. At the time I wasn’t sure, but now I can see the story hasn’t lost anything as a result. And Ruff and Tuff are still there in one of my favourite wish illustrations from @richarddraws! (In fact ALL the wish illustrations are my favourite..)'

#childrensbooks #picturebooks #childrensillustration #FairyDogmother #bookstagram

✨ THE FAIRY DOGMOTHER TAKEOVER ✨ Caroline Cro

✨ THE FAIRY DOGMOTHER TAKEOVER ✨

Caroline Crowe ( @crowehoho ) and Richard Merritt ( @richarddraws ) are taking over the Little Tiger Instagram to chat about all things Fairy Dogmother! This afternoon, Richard shares these fab portraits of his four-legged Fairy Dogmother characters. Which one is your favourite?

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'One of the most fun parts of drawing for this book was looking into all the wonderful breeds of dog out there. There were just way too many to include them all, and of course every dog owner I spoke to begged me to put their little baby into the book!

The one thing I did know was that Priscilla the fairydogmother was always going to be a giant pink poodle, clipped like a show dog at Crufts - and no one was going to tell me otherwise! She's totally camp, and was so much fun to draw.

Interesting fact: Cinders was originally the pug, until we changed him to the cute little Jack Russel.'

#FairyDogmother #childrensbooks #picturebooks #childrensillustration #bookstagram

✨ THE FAIRY DOGMOTHER TAKEOVER ✨ Caroline Cro

✨ THE FAIRY DOGMOTHER TAKEOVER ✨

Caroline Crowe ( @crowehoho ) and Richard Merritt ( @richarddraws ) are taking over the Little Tiger Instagram to chat about all things Fairy Dogmother! This morning, Richard talks about finding inspiration!

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'Whenever I get the chance to illustrate a book I think of where it'll be set (if not explicit in the text) and try to build a world from there. As this was to be largely in a dogs home, I immediately thought this should be a city setting - a bit like Battersea here in London. I saw a vintage pic of New York with the wonderful train snaking above the road, between the buildings, and thought that's the one! It provided a great tool for drawing the eye across the page.

I always try to avoid generic artwork - eg, if I'm drawing a chair, I'll go look at chair design, for a character's clothes, I'll look into fashion (like the human fairy godmother in her Chanel suit) - so if I'm drawing a building, there is some grounding in reality there - I love architecture and all the little details like moldings, ironwork etc, and the facade of the building in the photo became the basis for the dog home.

I'll start with a pencil sketch (swipe to have a look) and then play with compositons on the computer, and eventually we get to the final result. All the colour work is digital and built up in many many layers. I draw a lot these days directly to computer with a very basic wacom tablet (the cheap one without a screen!) and more often than not, just draw by clicking the mouse to form shapes, so it's a lot more archaic than it may seem!'

#fairydogmother #picturebooks #childrensbooks #childrensillustration #bookstagram

✨ THE FAIRY DOGMOTHER TAKEOVER ✨ Caroline Cro

✨ THE FAIRY DOGMOTHER TAKEOVER ✨

Caroline Crowe ( @crowehoho ) and Richard Merritt ( @richarddraws ) are taking over the Little Tiger Instagram to chat about all things Fairy Dogmother! This afternoon, Caroline is revealing her favourite secret treasures that are hidden in the book.

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Anyone who loves picture books will know that the text on the pages is only half the story. I am always so excited to see the illustrations for my books because I know there will be untold story treasure in the images created by the amazing illustrators I’ve been lucky enough to work with.

These are just some of the illustrations from The Fairy Dogmother created by the super talented @richarddraws that tell their own visual tales ... or should that be tails? 🐾

🖍In the first picture, you can see Gruff and his new owner - I love this detail!
🖍In the second picture, check out the bird in the top right of the page who is definitely NOT on board with dogs being able to climb!
🖍I love the photographs in the background on the third illustration!

I’d love to hear about your favourite picture book story treasure.📚

#TheFairyDogmother #childrensbooks #picturebooks #childrensillustration #bookstagram

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