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Illustrating a children’s book • Part 1: Discovering of the project
Illustrating a children’s book may seem simple, but the reality is quite different. Several months ago, I began working on a “big” project: an illustrated children’s book titled The Adventures of the Teenies Weenies. Now that it’s finished, I am so pleased to present it to you. I want to create a series of posts to take you along with me on this long journey, sharing each step, my challenges, successes, and advice. Discovering of the project Like most of my projects, this one came to me through my network. Someone was looking for an illustrator to bring to life the texts his grandmother had written about forty years ago.…
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My Birth Story: Home Birth in France
To begin with, I would like to say that I was a perfect mother, an ideal mother before having a child! I hadn’t even thought about it; I would be a super mom with a top-notch stroller, bottles, and a little suitcase ready to take to the maternity ward as soon as the first contractions were felt. The mom you see in the movies. How did I come to this decision? But when my first child was announced, things happened differently. First, I imagined that the pregnant woman would be taken care of, that they would explain many things to me, be caring. Far, far from reality. A glimpse of…
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How to react when you’re child is in an emotional tornado?
Emotions are always a big struggle for children (and for adults too by the way). That’s why I wanted to create a simple tool to help them navigate and understand the “main” emotions. My first observation is that it can be so frustrating for a child to feel all these big emotions without being able to understand or put words on them. So they explode in their way, it can be shouting, crying, hurting, kicking everything… And as adults, as we don’t react like that anymore (just sometimes) we are always surprised by the intensity of this volcano of emotions. We have a giant fire in front of us, so…
