Here’s part two of our wonderful conversation with Victoria Kann. author of the newly released Snickerdoodle and the absolute classic Pinkalicious, as well as many of its sequels and spinoffs.

Last week we talked about snickerdoodle, which by the way it was published last week! Check it out! We also talked about Pinkalicious, Purplicious, and many more. the spinoff

This week we start off with Peteriffic and dive deeper into the history of Victoria’s art in the beginning of her career as a graphic designer and how it lead to her current work and style.

She tells what it was like to work with animators—not to give it away, but “interesting” and “exciting” may have been used.

It was a fun and enlightening conversation, and we look forward to more !

If you liked this episode, you’ll love these:

Pinkalicious, where it all started. For us. And Victoria. The original origin story.

Check out our other author interviews:

Dan Gutman
Dan Yaccarino
Chris Grabenstein
Alan Katz
Linda Harkey
Lisa Desimini

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We have yet another author guest! It’s Victoria Kann, yes, she of Pinkalicious fame!

We talk about the Pinkalicious origin story (spoiler alert: April Fools!) and how she came up with the title’s design. Victoria talks about her early days as a freelance graphic design artist: a collage of work, if you will. And as always, we talk about her illustration techniques. And, as always, it’s very cool.

We talk about her latest book Snickerdoodle which is published the day after this episode drops! Yes, Victoria shares the origin story. Lots of origin stories in this one! She asked the question, “What if”—sorry. You’re going to have to listen. It’s really fun.

And details? You like details? So many interesting details about her thank yous in her books. And we explore the tremendous amount of wonderful details in the illustrations that we’ve noticed, discovered, rediscovered, and, most importantly, shared with our girls as we read and enjoyed Victoria’s books with them over the years. We hope you will too!

We had such a great time with Victoria and while we weren’t surprised it didn’t make it any less awesome.

If you liked this episode, you’ll love these:

Pinkalicious, where it all started. For us. And Victoria. The original origin story.

Check out our other author interviews:

Dan Gutman
Dan Yaccarino
Chris Grabenstein
Alan Katz
Linda Harkey
Lisa Desimini

And now a word from our sponsors. Well, not really sponsors, just places we like to get books and hope that you'll go to if you need one:

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It’s Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard, illustrated by James Marshall and Mike and David take a trip back to their childhood, OK not their childhood but at least the era of their childhood. While neither read it as kids, but one of them may have read it to their kids. You must listen to find out.

The book is kind of clever, silly, fun, and even a bit dated, but in a good way like a good old classic. Is Miss Nelson missing? Will they ever find her? And if so, will she be changed or will she be the same Miss Nelson who we fell in love with a little bit from the very beginning? Intrigue and suspense. Just read it to find out.

This book has everything. There’s a lovely teacher, horribly behaving kids, really fun illustrations, mathematics, sharks (very unpleasant), and Mars. It’s a fun read especially to read with and to young kids.

And Dad Jokes. Many Dad Jokes.

If you liked this episode, check out these:

Underground by David Macaulay

Lisa Desimini, one of our fun illustrator/author conversations

Shrek because of fun illustrations and the hairs of our chinny chin chins

Future episodes: No, David and The Stupids

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