Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books
Influences
A course by Natalia Méndez , Editor and teacher
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Now I tell you about some authors that I especially like. Some have been with me since I was a girl and others are recent discoveries. I also like other stories and characters that do not come from a book, but from movies and animations.”
In this video lesson Natalia Méndez addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books. Learn the basic components of a story to create tales for children.
Partial transcription of the video
“Some of my favorite authors are still the ones I read when I was a girl. For example, I have here some copies spent since childhood that I keep and I keep rereading. In this case, I show you "Maruja", by Ema Wolf, which is a of my favorite authors. Ema has a sense of incredible humor and creates some amazing characters. This is the first book I read about her and it's the story of a ghost aunt who arrives to visit her relative. Another author that I also knew about as a girl and that I still love is Roald Dahl. is an English author. Maybe, you can meet him, also, because several of his work...”
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Course summary for: Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Natalia Méndez
A course by Natalia Méndez
Natalia Méndez has been working as a publisher of books for children and young people since 2002.
It has its own artisan publishing label, called "Dábale arroz", together with Eduardo Abel Giménez and a very small ceramic and mini-book business "A la zorra".
She obtained a scholarship as a researcher from the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich and, in 2012, participated in the Frankfurt Fellowship program at the Frankfurt Book Fair. And in addition, he gives classes in the Publishing and Literature career (UBA), training for writers (Casa de Letras) and training for children's book publishers.
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