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(writing/illustrating stories for children in tandem)
The next
collaborative project planned by La Gr@not@ will be a book of illustrated
stories for children. Each story will be created by a tandem of adult-child. It
may be that the adult writes the story and the child illustrates it OR that the
child writes the story and the adult illustrates it. The order of procedure
(“which came first: the chicken or the egg?”) is left up to you. For example, a
child's drawing might inspire an adult to write a story, a child's imaginative
story might send the adult racing for paints and brushes, or an adult might
tell a story and the child illustrate it.
There is no limit to
age and the child does not have to be “an infant prodigy” for your contribution
to be considered. We are looking forward to 2-year-olds' fingerpaintings,
collages by 12-year-olds, b/w and coloured drawings, photos, ANY kind of
original work.
Conditions:
The stories should be
original. We don't want children illustrating Cinderella or Frozen.
You should give the
age of the child (and the age of the adult if you wish) and please state the
relationship between the two of you (father-daughter, grandmother-grandson,
aunt-niece, babysitter-babysittee, godmother-goddaughter, whatever). Also – to
save us from wondering – let us know who did what.
We plan the book to
have A5 pages, BUT LAID HORIZONTALLY. So please make sure that the
illustrations conform to this. The text can be sent any however (.doc or .odt
preferable to .docx), but the ilolustrations must be horizontal. They can be
any size, later scaled to A5 (14·85cm high, 21cm wide). If you send them this
size, that would save us the trouble, but we could rescale for you if
necessary. The images should be in .jpg (alias .jpeg) format.
There should be one
illustration for every (A5) page of text. Remember that margining means that an
A5 page holds a bit less than half of an A4. Font size can be adjusted to suit,
but we don't want the words so tiny that nobody can read them...
Comics are allowed,
as long as they are fruit of an adult-child collaboration. Please make sure
that they're presented horizontally.
The same tandem may
contribute more than one story (especially interesting would be if you switch
writing/illustrating roles). The same person may take part in several tandems.
All submissions
should be sent as .doc + .jpg attachments (with, additionally, the text
repeated in the body of the e-mail) to the address composed of the word at the
head of this page, followed by @la-granota.com
Our side of the project
Most people to whom
we've spoken find this an exciting idea, so it might run into a series of
books. 100% of the profits from all of these
books will go to worthy causes. The profits from AT LEAST the first
book will be shared between Pallassos Sense Fronteres (PsF) [Clowns Without
Borders], http://www.clowns.org/ and the UNICEF program to train midwives, https://www.unicef.org/search/search.php?q=midwives
So far, we haven't
set a deadline. In fact, we might never set
one. If we get enough response, we'll publish a book as soon as we have enough
material, and see how it goes from there. We will keep you informed (on this
page) if we decide to change the recipient(s) of the profits.
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