This was the first
publish it. And I still love these books: one of them is Glasses
thing
that
(Who Needs „Em?), by Lane Smith, and the other is Teddy!
influenced
me,
Where Are You?, a pretty weird book by Steadman. And
people
that
Steadman, who is an English or American illustrator, I don‟t
illustrated very way.
in
a
remember, actually,
personal And
then,
because
is he
very
critical;
doesn‟t
write
specifically for children. I also
my
like
that:
When
one
has
father is a painter,
different audiences and can
since
keep
I
was
a
a
style,
a
way
of
child I saw many
narrating, and knows how to
books
art,
find other languages. Then I
open
had the opportunity to travel to
different ways of
Europe, around the time I
which
of
seeing the world.
Cover of the Canadian edition of
made my first book, and I got
This is the reason why I think it‟s very good to have different
Pantuflas de perrito. Text by Jorge
acquainted
with
publishing
houses
German edition of Secreto de familia. Aufbau, 2010.
styles in the illustrations for children‟s books, because points of
Luján.
Ilustrations
by
Groundwood Books, 2010.
Isol.
many and
views are widened. Something that had great influence on me
illustrators who also gave me
were the books of the Fondo de Cultura Económica [a leading
more strength and more inspiration for what I was doing; one
Mexican publishing house with presence in LA, USA and
of them is Wolf Erlbruch, a German who won the Hans
Spain]: I first bought a book by Lane Smith and another by
Christian Andersen Award some years ago, the most important
Ralph Steadman, and then I thought about entering to Fondo‟s
award in children‟s literature. I also saw the books that were
annual competition of illustrated books, A la Orilla del Viento.
being made in France, which have lots of humor and,
Also, seeing that these things got published gave me the idea
plastically, much ambition; for example, one of these authors is
of making a book in my own way, and that someone could
Olivier Douzou. So, these books were very important. I visually