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Nancy
Patz and I are celebrating Babies
Can't Eat Kimchee! at the launch party in
The Children's Bookstore, Baltimore Maryland, January,
2007, with wine and kimCHEESE. |
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I began writing and illustrating children's books
in collaboration with Ruth Phang. Patchwork
Tales was first, followed by We
Build A Climber. Even though Ruth went on to become
a children's librarian, she still helps me with
almost every book I do: editing, encouraging, supporting
and sharing her ideas, knowledge and experience.
Ruth and I are now collaborating again on several
books. |
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 Collaborations
are great for ideas, support, courage, encouragement,
and, above all, fun. Made
in Mexico was created in collaboration with
my brother, Peter Laufer. He insisted that we take
a trip to Paracho in order to research the book.
The visit to Paracho inspired every illustration,
and we had a wonderful time besides.
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 No
collaboration was ever as difficult - or as rewarding
- as the one that Nancy Patz and I did when we both
wrote and both illustrated together, Babies
Can’t Eat Kimchee! It may not sound so difficult
to integrate two very different styles of art work
into one cohesive whole, but it is. |
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 And
then there was Do Re Mi,
written in collaborazione
with Angelo Mafucci. Angelo helped me all along
the way with this book, providing me with invaluable,
scholarly information on my subject, and with introductions
to all the people and places I needed to visit and
to know. He gave me keys to his city. He shared
his cathedral, his school and his choir.
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Angelo Mafucci and I presented Do
Re Mi to Pope Benedict XVI in Rome on
September 5, 2007. Do Re Mi is now officially part
of The Vatican Library. |
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