Halloween is just around the corner so the time for CREATING OUR CREATURE has come. Every year I give you some sources of inspiration. My first for this year is Chris Riddell, a political cartoonist for The Observer and author of the recent book Timorous Beasts. You can check lots of his stuff online. He has a wonderful facebook where he uploads videos showing how he draws.
🐕🐕🐕👦👀👀🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍂🍂HE knew it was autumn again, because Dog came running into the house bringing the windy cold smell of autumn with him. In every black dog-hair, he carried autumn: leaves caught in his dark ears, dropping from his white chest, and off his tail. Dog smelled just like autumn!Martin sat up in bed and reached down with one small hand. Dog barked and showed a long length of pink, wet tongue, which he passed over and along the back of Martin's hand. Dog licked him like a lollypop. 'Because of the salt on my skin,' declared Martin, as Dog jumped upon the bed. 'Get down,' warned Martin. 'Mom doesn't like you up here.' Dog dropped his ears. 'Well. . .' Martin softened, 'just for a little while, then.' Dog warmed Martin's smallbody with his dog warmness. Martin loved the clean smell of dog and the pile of colourful leaves on the blanket. He didn't really care if Mom was angry! 'What is it like outside today, Dog? Tell me.'...
This week in a class I have read some poems from the book The melancholy of Oyster Boy. Tim Burton's creatures are weird, funny and unique. Some of them are Staring girl, The girl with many eyes, Match boy, Stain boy, Toxic boy, Robot boy, Melonhead, Mummy boy, Brie boy, The boy with nails in his eyes, Oyster boy or Junk girl. I bought a copy of this book as an adult, so don't think these stories are for children because they are not. Some of them are touching and sad, others are funny and peculiar. Each of the characters is an outsider, many come from broken families, mostly parents who are not accepting their children who are
different. Who is your favourite? You can read some of them in the link below.
