There are repeating patterns, objects, and elements-like a bird which appears somewhere on every page-for kids to find throughout the book. In Home, children see a strange home and are asked to wonder who would live there. “I tried to make the illustrations as detailed as possible, so that children will pore over the illustrations and really take them in,” Ellis says. She was inspired, in part, by illustrators who draw a whole world on every page, like Richard Scarry. Ellis celebrates places that she’s visited, imagined, and loved by blending realistic, mythic, and global imagery to explore the idea of home in an apartment, Atlantis, Valhalla, or even a Russian grandmother’s kitchen. “It’s weird and idiosyncratic,” she says. But this is not a visual dictionary of houses: Home is much more personal to Ellis. Home explores the possibilities of what a home could be, and what homes say about the people who live in them. We talked to her about her new book, how having kids of her own changes her work, and the meaning of home. Home, her authorial debut, received starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly, among others. Carson Ellis’s sumptuous, magical illustrations have graced many children’s books, including the wildly popular Wildwood Chronicles and Lemony Snicket’s The Composer Is Dead.
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