Mac Barnett -照片和采访

《书架:作者麦克·巴奈特奥克兰工作室内》

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09/11/19

Mac巴内特他裤子上没有颜料，真有点可惜。这位多产的儿童书籍作者认为与他合作的插画家的工作室(比如基督教罗宾逊和乔恩·克拉森)再多看一点。他们的桌子上摆满了马克笔、剪刀和画笔，而作为一名作家，麦克有时只能用一支漂亮的铅笔。但是无数的粉丝——包括我们在内——都是他的粉丝近40本书他肯定不同意这让他不那么迷人了。毕竟，麦克是讲故事的人，是他想出了他们之间怪诞的友谊(和竞争)三种形状就是那个写了一堆怪诞小说的人关于一头猪的情诗，以及创造一个人Cacophonous公寓楼笑着牛仔和闲聊羊群。此外，他的一室公寓位于奥克兰的一名工匠的宝石里面，所以忘记标记和油漆Mac的Got Got wall壁纸和原创内置。作者的最新书（昨天发布！）是只是因为一个甜蜜的故事，由一个女孩在睡觉前问她父亲的一系列问题和他提供的创造性的答案组成。点击下面的整个家庭和工作室之旅，准备被一个才华横溢的作家和他的花式铅笔难以置信的灵感。

有关更多儿童书籍灵感，请查看我们之前的“书架”档案与作者和插画HervéTullet.，卡森埃利斯，基督教罗宾逊，乔恩·克拉森，团队莫拉莱斯拥有，和伊莎贝尔桑切斯Vegara．

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: “我的办公室是我家的房间。有时我想如果我每天都要离开我的房子，我会得到更多的工作。但另一方面，我不喜欢离开我的房子。”

Square—alongside other inspiration.">: 来自Mac的图片书籍之一的插图 -广场——以及其他的灵感。

: ＂My office has a lot of windows. In summertime, the heat’s unbearable by 3 p.m. in the afternoon, which is a good excuse to stop working. My desk used to be my grandfather’s. He was a pediatrician, and so was my father, and so was my great grandfather. So, I’ve shirked my patrilineal obligation, but I like to think that in some way I’m carrying on the family business. It makes me happy to think about my grandpa working at this desk. From where I sit, I have a good view of a bookshelf I built with my friend Shawn Harris. Shawn did most of the building, if we’re being honest. When we moved in there was a Murphy bed in this room. Shawn and I tore it out and installed shelves in its place. Shawn is very good at building stuff. He is also a terrific children’s book editor, and he’s been my friend for 22 years. The shelves are full of books—mostly picture books, some novels, too. Other people’s good work is extremely motivating to me."

: 研究，研究，研究。

Jon Klassen’s profile on Mother and he was sharpening a pencil with a knife! (Although I have to say I’ve never seen him do this in real life…) I mostly compose at my computer, although there’s quite a lot of longhand writing, too. I spend too much on fancy pencils. I like nice paper, too. I have a bad habit of starting a notebook without finishing the last one, so I have partially filled journals everywhere." ">: “我嫉妒我的插画家的朋友。他们使用上色工具。他们用手工作。我看着Jon Klassen的个人资料在妈妈。他正在用小刀削铅笔!(尽管我不得不说，我从未在现实生活中见过他这么做……)我大部分时间都是在电脑上写作，尽管也有相当多的手写。我在高档铅笔上花了太多钱。我也喜欢漂亮的纸。我有个坏习惯，总是不把最后一本写完就开始写日记，所以我到处都有部分日记。”

Mac B.: Kid Spy, all about the missions he completed in 1989 as a secret agent for Her Majesty the Queen of England.">: Mac的“自传”系列mac b .:孩子间谍一切都是关于他于1989年完成的任务作为英格兰女王陛下的秘密代理人。

Blackwing pencils and buy them from the bookstore down the street, East Bay Booksellers. Sometimes I treat myself to a mail order pencil from CW Pencil Enterprise in New York. Present & Correct is a wonderful stationery store in London—it’s a small shop but I get overwhelmed when I’m in there. Earlier this year I went to Korea and came home with a lot of paper."">: “我喜欢黑翼铅笔从街上的书店买，东湾书商．有时我会把自己送到邮购铅笔CW铅笔企业在纽约。现在和正确是伦敦的一个美妙的文具商店 - 这是一家小商店，但我在那里时被淹没。今年早些时候我去了韩国，用很多纸来回家。“

: ＂My work schedule is a mess. My favorite time to write is very late at night, when the whole world gets a little quieter. I get such energy at night! But it’s not a healthy schedule. Lately I’ve been trying to get up early and write first thing. I dislike waking up early. I’m not huge on waking up generally, actually."

Triangle, Square, Extra Yarn, Leo: A Ghost Story, and The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown. ">: 作者的几个标题：三角形，广场，额外的纱线，利奥:鬼故事，和关于玛格丽特·怀斯·布朗的重要事情．

: “我在加州长大，一直住在加州。我在旧金山湾区长大。我仍然住在旧金山湾区。我在洛杉矶待了几年，但也就这么远了。我肯定是加利福尼亚人。我不知道我是什么意思。我在波莫纳学院(Pomona college)学的是英语，我的重点是中世纪斯堪的纳维亚诗歌，它最终对我的帮助比任何人(包括我自己)都要大。”

: ＂The writer David Foster Wallace taught at Pomona while I was there, and I studied fiction and nonfiction under him. His teaching affected my approach to writing in lots of ways, but by the time I met him, I’d already decided I wanted to write kids’ books. Honestly, if I wrote for adults I would feel far more constricted than I do writing for children. Kids are far more interesting readers than adults are. They’re open to new kinds of stories. They ask big, difficult questions. On the whole, they’re a much better audience for literary fiction. When adults read a story they don’t immediately understand, they often push it aside, because they feel dumb. But kids are constantly coming into contact with things they don’t understand, and so when they read a challenging story, they do what they always do: bravely try to figure things out."

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith. It’s a brilliant, funny, irreverent, and sophisticated take on fairy tales, and my campers loved it as much as I did. I thought that if a book this strange could be so beloved, maybe there was a chance for some of the stories I made up. When I got back to college, I told my friends I wanted to write picture books, that I’d been inspired by a book I’d read over the summer called The Stinky Cheese Man. One of my good friends said, 'You know my dad wrote that book, right?' I hadn’t known that, because I couldn’t pronounce Jon Scieszka’s last name. (I can now though. It rhymes with Fresca.) A year later I wrote my first book and I sent it to Jon. He sent it to his agent, Steven Malk. And Steve became my agent, and a few weeks later, we’d sold the book. That was 15 years ago. I’m still a little stunned."">: “当我做夏令营辅导员的时候，我的故事大多是自己编的，因为夏令营的图书馆不是很好。不过，他们有一本书我很喜欢:臭奶酪人和其他相当愚蠢的故事，由Jon Scieszka撰写并由Lane Smith说明。这是童话故事的辉煌，有趣的，不可陶记的，先进的占据，而我的露营者就像我一样喜欢它。我以为如果这件奇怪的书可能是如此心爱，也许有一些我弥补的一些故事。当我回到大学时，我告诉我的朋友，我想写绘画书，我一直受到一本书的灵感，我会读过夏天叫臭奶酪男人．我的一个好朋友说，'你知道我的父亲写了那本书，对吗？“我尚不知道，因为我看不到jon scieszka的姓氏。（我现在可以。它与弗雷斯卡押韵。）一年后我写了我的第一本书，我把它送到了Jon。他把它送到了他的代理人，史蒂文·迈克。史蒂夫成了我的代理人，几个星期后，我们卖了这本书。那是15年前。我还是有点震惊。“

826LA, a writing lab in Los Angeles that provides kids free writing instruction and after-school tutoring."">: “在我能养活自己当作家之前，我跑了826LA.这是洛杉矶的一个写作实验室，为孩子们提供免费的写作指导和课后辅导。”

: “我受到了我的观众的启发 - 孩子的智慧和好奇心。我认为孩子和作家基本上从事相同的大企业：试图弄清楚成为一个人意味着什么。”

: ＂As I mentioned, I was a camp counselor on my summers off from college. It was a sports camp, and I’m terrible at sports. So when a kid would knock over a cone during soccer and start crying, the instructor would send her over to the sidelines, where I would be sitting in the shade with the other athletic dropouts, telling stories. That was my first audience: hysterical, overheated four-year-olds suddenly doubting their future as international soccer stars. You had to make those stories good."

: ＂I’m hopeless when it comes to art, but every picture book I write needs to have some driving visual component, and so my stories often start with an image in my head, and not a line of text. Writing a picture book means finishing an unfinished thing—if a picture book text makes sense without illustrations, it shouldn’t be a picture book. I usually tell a new story out loud, over and over, to a few trusted friends, and to my wife, who is a children’s book editor, before I actually set down any prose. I got my start composing stories orally at that summer camp, and I still like to figure things out that way."

Just Because is a series of questions a girl asks her father at bedtime, and the inventive answers he provides. It’s illustrated by the great Isabelle Arsenault, one of the finest illustrators working today. Her pictures for the book alternate between lovely and delicate domestic scenes and these wild and lavish mythological landscapes."">: ＂只是因为是一个女孩在睡前问她父亲的一系列问题，以及他提供的创造性答案。由伟大的伊莎贝尔·阿森诺(Isabelle Arsenault)绘制，她是当今最优秀的插画家之一。她为这本书绘制的图片时而可爱而精致的家庭场景，时而狂野而奢华的神话风景。”

: “我发表了39本书。主要是象征的书籍，但有些章节。”

826LA, a nonprofit that teaches writing to children. When I write, I draw on that experience: How would I talk to a kid? How would I tell a story if we were standing face-to-face?"">: “我喜欢和孩子们说话。在高中，我是一个阅读导师。在大学里，我是一个营地辅导员。我毕业后，我跑了826LA.是一个教授给孩子们写作的非营利组织。当我写的时候，我画了那个体验：我怎么和孩子谈话？如果我们站在面对面，我将如何讲故事？“

: “我受到了我的观众的启发 - 孩子的智慧和好奇心。我认为孩子和作家基本上从事相同的大企业：试图弄清楚成为一个人意味着什么。”

: 亨利总是得到最好的席位。

: “良好的儿童艺术与成年人的好艺术相同：它为生活提供了诚实的见解。但是一个孩子的生活与成年人的生活非常不同，而不是成年人期望的方式。孩子们在这里是新的．They have surprising questions. Their minds are more limber, their tastes less defined. Childhood is by definition an experimental time, and so it’s only right children’s literature is experimental, too."

The Stupids Step Out when I was a kid. I thought that book was so funny, and I was so glad my mom did, too. She had to keep stopping; she was laughing so hard she was crying."">: “我不写有道德的故事。道德是作者试图铭刻在孩子大脑里的简单教训。有道德的书鼓励被动阅读。我觉得它们令人沮丧。我更喜欢有意义的书，需要读者思考的书。一个故事的意义是由孩子们共同创造的，当孩子们用活跃的思维来解释一个好故事的时候。在大多数情况下，儿童不会阅读绘本。大人们读给孩子们听。这是一件很强大的事情。图画书本质上是一种社会形式，是儿童和成人共同体验的艺术作品。 I remember my mom reading me《蠢人出门当我还是孩子的时候。我以为那本书很有趣，我很高兴我的妈妈也做了。她不得不继续停下来;她笑着笑着哭了。“

: “孩子不是铁板一块。不同的孩子有不同的文学品味，孩子们应该拥有和他们一样丰富多彩、充满活力的文学作品。我认为我的责任是尽可能诚实和具体地表达我的观点。某些有血缘关系的读者会对这种诚实，这种专一做出回应。这本书对他们来说是有意义的。”

: 献给心爱小狗的肖像画廊。

: ＂I think the most important thing to do is to read picture books. A lot of them. The picture book is a peculiar form, and it’s important to learn the craft of telling stories in both words and pictures, across 32 or 40 or 48 pages, before you sit down and try to make one of these things."

: 来自一些Mac最喜欢的书籍的五颜六色的页面，都排成一排。

James Marshall, Arnold Lobel, Margaret Wise Brown, Maurice Sendak, Wanda Gág. I still do."">: “我喜欢的工作詹姆斯•马歇尔，阿诺德•，玛格丽特聪明棕色，莫里斯仙女达，万达呕吐．我仍然。”

: 正在为他即将出版的书做校样，罗马皇帝保罗，这将在2020年3月出来。

Mac B.: Kid Spy, all about the missions I completed in 1989 as a secret agent for Her Majesty the Queen of England."">: “我刚刚完成了最新的我的回忆录，在一个叫做的系列中收集mac b .:孩子间谍，关于我1989年完成的任务的所有关于陛下陛下的秘密代理人。“

Southie, my favorite sandwich shop. At sunset each day I take our dog, Henry, on a long walk in the hills above Oakland. Creative Growth Art Center is a great gallery in town. On the weekends, my wife and I mostly like to stay home and read." ">: “在下午晚些时候，我通常会意识到我没有吃午饭，走到拐角处Southie，我最喜欢的三明治店。每天在日落时，我带着我们的狗，亨利，在奥克兰高于山上的山丘上。创意成长艺术中心是城里一家大画廊。周末的时候，我和妻子都喜欢呆在家里看书。”