Bulldozer’s Big Day - Bookology Magazine

Interview: Candace Fleming

October 29, 2015 by Marsha Qualey

Bulldozer’s Big Day is a perfect read-aloud, with wonderful sound and action opportunities on most pages. Did those moments affect your decision about what verbs to use? How lovely you think it’s a perfect read aloud. I worked hard at the story’s readability. Not only did I strive for a pace and cadence, but I wanted the story to sound as active as the plot’s setting with lots of bumping and clanging and vrooming.… more

Interview: Eric Rohmann

October 6, 2015 by Marsha Qualey

Bulldozer’s Big Day
written by Candace Fleming
illustrated by Eric Rohmann
Atheneum, 2015 interview by Vicki Palmquist What’s the illustration tool you turn to more than any other? Graphite pencil. Simple, efficient, erasable, feels good in the hand, makes a lovely line with infinite possibilities for line variation. Did I mention that it’s erasable? Always forgiving!… more

Slideshow: Block Print Illustration

March 14, 2021October 6, 2015 by Marsha Qualey

Eric Rohmann’s wonderful illustrations for Bulldozer’s Big Day were made using block prints, also called relief prints. This technique has long been used to illustrate children’s books, especially early ABC books such as the The Ladder to Learning by Miss Lovechild, published in 1852 by the New York firm R.H. Pease. The Bookologist has put together a slide show of some of our more recent print-illustrated books.… more

Interview: Candace Fleming

Interview: Eric Rohmann

Slideshow: Block Print Illustration

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