Post by Rushton on Aug 22, 2005 19:30:16 GMT 11
Hi folks.
In the Sunday Times Perth edition, there was a little review of IC's latest in the Chillout section.
i10.photobucket.com/albums/a126/linnet_101/Mystic/fur.jpg
Sadly there is no link to the page on the web, so I have put the copy up for you all to see.
and cos you can't quite make out the writing on my lovely scan here is the transcript:
NEW BOOK
Little Fur: The Legend of Little Fur
This delightful book by Isobelle Carmody tells the story of Little Fur who is half elf and lives in a secret wilderness within an ancient human city. Whenit seems that humans will find and harm the wilderness, Little Fur must make a journey into the city in search of sleeping magic to protect her precious home and all the wild things that dwell there.
But Little Fur has never ventured into the city before, and she must be guided by a crow, and two street-wise cats who promise to help her find her way and avoid the trolls who hunt in the shadows and the strange ditorted humans called greeps that roam the city at night.
But even more tan trolls nad greeps, Little Fur fears humans.
Little Fur is a story full of magic, wonder and exciting adventures. It is the first in a series of four.
Chillout had a chat with Isobelle Carmody to find out more:
Q: What prompted you to write for a younger audience?
A: It wasn't an intended thing, but I have a little girl and I was telling her a story. I am not sure if you know but I live part of my time in Prague in Eastern Europe and we were there and it was the aftermath of the 100 year floods. It was summer and the city was disintegrating from the ground up. There was this spicy smell - a bit like rotting upholstery. We were walking around and the first floor is now the basement. My daughter looked in a basement that was going down several stories and she looked in and said, 'Mamma what lives down there?' I said 'Trolls.'
I then started telling this story and this one stuck and I was telling it again and again. I was getting enchanmted with the characters. Then one day I realised she wouldn't want to hear this story when she got older, and I couldn't bear the thought of something like this vanishing. So I wrote the story down. My daughter allowed me to articulate some of that puzzlement, wonder and some of that sorrow that chilren feel.
Q: Why a troll?
A: The archetypal troll comes from the Three Billy Goat's Gruff and also in fairy tales which I have loved from childhood. I don't know where the troll comes from but as a child they scared me such as a troll under a bridge. I feel with Little Fur it is connected in with the old style of fairy stories.
Q: Did you do the drawings too?
A: I did. I didn't want someone else's version of Little Fur, I wanted her to look like I imagined and not someone else. It was really important to me. The cover is also appropriate and has that precious object feel about it.
Is this the first of four?
A: Yes, and I am planning to write Little Fur in different seasons as there is in Europe. Little Fur came with us on our walks through Prague in different seasons and I passionately want to draw her in different seasons.
In the Sunday Times Perth edition, there was a little review of IC's latest in the Chillout section.
i10.photobucket.com/albums/a126/linnet_101/Mystic/fur.jpg
Sadly there is no link to the page on the web, so I have put the copy up for you all to see.
and cos you can't quite make out the writing on my lovely scan here is the transcript:
NEW BOOK
Little Fur: The Legend of Little Fur
This delightful book by Isobelle Carmody tells the story of Little Fur who is half elf and lives in a secret wilderness within an ancient human city. Whenit seems that humans will find and harm the wilderness, Little Fur must make a journey into the city in search of sleeping magic to protect her precious home and all the wild things that dwell there.
But Little Fur has never ventured into the city before, and she must be guided by a crow, and two street-wise cats who promise to help her find her way and avoid the trolls who hunt in the shadows and the strange ditorted humans called greeps that roam the city at night.
But even more tan trolls nad greeps, Little Fur fears humans.
Little Fur is a story full of magic, wonder and exciting adventures. It is the first in a series of four.
Chillout had a chat with Isobelle Carmody to find out more:
Q: What prompted you to write for a younger audience?
A: It wasn't an intended thing, but I have a little girl and I was telling her a story. I am not sure if you know but I live part of my time in Prague in Eastern Europe and we were there and it was the aftermath of the 100 year floods. It was summer and the city was disintegrating from the ground up. There was this spicy smell - a bit like rotting upholstery. We were walking around and the first floor is now the basement. My daughter looked in a basement that was going down several stories and she looked in and said, 'Mamma what lives down there?' I said 'Trolls.'
I then started telling this story and this one stuck and I was telling it again and again. I was getting enchanmted with the characters. Then one day I realised she wouldn't want to hear this story when she got older, and I couldn't bear the thought of something like this vanishing. So I wrote the story down. My daughter allowed me to articulate some of that puzzlement, wonder and some of that sorrow that chilren feel.
Q: Why a troll?
A: The archetypal troll comes from the Three Billy Goat's Gruff and also in fairy tales which I have loved from childhood. I don't know where the troll comes from but as a child they scared me such as a troll under a bridge. I feel with Little Fur it is connected in with the old style of fairy stories.
Q: Did you do the drawings too?
A: I did. I didn't want someone else's version of Little Fur, I wanted her to look like I imagined and not someone else. It was really important to me. The cover is also appropriate and has that precious object feel about it.
Is this the first of four?
A: Yes, and I am planning to write Little Fur in different seasons as there is in Europe. Little Fur came with us on our walks through Prague in different seasons and I passionately want to draw her in different seasons.
