“I didn’t hear the question,” he explains. Quirky and scientifically minded, Calvin wears two different socks because his right foot is “very serious,” the left “often silly,” and he answers, “Tallahassee is the capital of Florida” in response to a math problem. Bighearted fourth-grader Danny Cohen cheerfully plays along when new kid Calvin Waffle makes him the subject of a mysterious experiment and fills Danny’s pockets with jelly beans. I feel somewhat sad to finish the final rewrite and have to send off a cherished manuscript.Įarly Review of DANNY'S DOODLES: THE JELLY BEAN EXPERIMENTĪdler again displays his versatility with this empathic first book in the Danny’s Doodles illustrated chapter book series. I love the rewriting, just playing with my words. It's the swim I love, not the jumping in the water, and not the stepping out. But I keep rereading and rewriting until I'm satisfied.Ħ) What's the part of swimming that you love the most? I try not to put too much pressure on myself, not to demand a great first draft. The hardest part, I find, is discovering the voice for my story and that comes at the very beginning.ĥ) How do you overcome obstacles, problems, when swimming alone? I find it helpful to work on more than one project at a time.
If I get stuck working on one manuscript, I start or continue work on another.
How can there be dry spells in swimming? Being dry can only mean you stepped out of the water. I keep rereading what I've written and that takes me deeper and deeper into my story.ģ) How do you keep swimming through dry spells? Just jump in and write.Ģ) What keeps you afloat.for short work? For longer work? The only way to get into the water is to jump in. An interview with Bruce Black:ġ) how do you get into the water each day? The Cam Jansen books (not the Young Cam Jansens) are transitional readers, books for children "in transit," from easy-to-reads to middle-grade novels. Somehow, children were expected to make that leap. Even in the late 1970s, when my first son was born, there were still very few books between the easy-to-reads and the eight-to-twelves.
I also remembered the trouble I had when I first learned to read, the difficulty I had with the books meant to follow the Dick and Jane series. It was rumored he had a photographic memory. I remembered a classmate in first and second grade with a great memory. I wanted to create a character young readers would want to read about again and again. I had already written a few books, but I wanted to work on a series. My first son had been born and I planned to stay home and take care of him while my wife returned to her work as a school psychologist. I had been a math teacher in the New York City school system and was just beginning a child care leave. Why did you decide to write the Cam Jansen books?
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