![]() ![]() I had this very clear memory of something that had happened when I was small. I wanted to tackle an established friendship, what happens when you don’t agree. She would be the person who would cause the conflict instead of being hard done by. The first thing I felt was that it was important that Flora not be the victim this time. Then my editor came back and said, “I’m really interested in getting to know Flora better.” And I was happy to do it that way.īut you rang some changes on the friendship theme. It would be a little boy and a penguin, and it would be blue. The original thought was that the penguin book would be a companion to Flora and the Flamingo. ![]() Idle talked with PW from her home in Tempe, Ariz., about living up to expectations, the importance of being taken seriously, and the secret meaning of fish.ĭid Flora and the Penguin go relatively smoothly, or were there places you got stuck? Flora and the Penguin, in which Flora exchanges her bathing suit for ice skates and ruffles the feathers of a new avian friend, is due out from Chronicle in October. “In which case the bird would have to be a penguin,” they joked-and then realized they had a concept for a sequel. ![]() “It reminds me of ice,” observed the art director. While Idle and her editorial team at Chronicle were still working on the book, they debated an illustration meant to show reflections on water. Flora and the Flamingo, Molly Idle’s story about an unlikely pair who dance their way into friendship, was named a 2014 Caldecott Honor Book. ![]()
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