It sneaks up on you, because the entire book feels seamless, but when you look at the pieces individually - which we did when we had to copy-edit the text - we realized how carefully constructed the manuscript really is. I should mention that in this book, every single word of text is deliberate and intentional. Somehow everything he’d been doing and thinking all these months came out into the sentence: “The cat walked through the world.” And he went on from there and developed the book into what you see now. He’d illustrated children’s books before, but on this next project he really wanted to write the text and make the pictures. Brendan was also thinking of the next children’s book he wanted to create. He and his wife had decided to live abroad, and their struggles learning a new language and adapting to a new culture gave them insights into perspective and point of view, as well as the nuances of language. Ginee, could you tell us more about Brendan and how he got the idea for They All Saw a Cat?īrendan’s inspiration for the book came from his travels around the world.
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