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To learn to ride a bicycle, as with the other great noble human inventions, is a hugely complex activity. Generally, it requires three things: the learner, the teacher and the bicycle, all in the same place at the same time, most often outside someplace.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Activity Bicycle Complex Generally Great Hugely Human Inventions Learn Learner Most Noble Often Other Outside Place Requires Ride Same Same Time Someplace Teacher Things Three Time

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Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Become Between Book Covers Emotion Fit Friendship Loneliness Loss Music Pages Painted Picture Picture Book Some Something Way Whether

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Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Any Busy Crayons Drawing Few Fist Full Get Hand Scribbling Stopped Them Very Who

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There has to be the right pacing of images to tell the story. I'm always stunned at how little you can put in.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Always How Images Little Pacing Put Right Story Stunned Tell You

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I never quite know if what I do will be understood.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Know Never Quite Understood Will

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If it's just brushstrokes wrestling around, it isn't much of a picture book, is it? There still has to be a picture. And maybe it needs to be a picture of a dog named Daisy or a little girl riding a bike. So I have to be careful before I get too carried away in the manner itself.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Around Away Be Careful Before Bike Book Careful Carried Daisy Dog Get Girl Itself Just Little Little Girl Manner Maybe Much Named Needs Picture Picture Book Riding Still Too Wrestling

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Usually, a number of events will be going on around me to start me on a book. What I mean is, I will have read a poem or seen a picture that is lingering in my mind.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Around Book Events Going Lingering Me Mean Mind Number Picture Poem Read Seen Start Will

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Whatever I'm thinking about has got to fit into thirty-two pages, the standard picture book size. So that's something. But the structure and the form for me are almost the most important, because these will express as much as words and images will the content of the work.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: About Almost Because Book Content Express Fit Form Got Images Important Me Most Much Pages Picture Picture Book Size Something Standard Structure The Most Important Thinking Whatever Will Words Work

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Somewhere in this process, I begin reading and showing my book to my audience. When I say my audience, I mean a single imaginary child who is a blend of myself as a young person, the students in my wife's classroom of first- through third-graders, and the students from two classrooms I visit regularly in the Bronx, New York.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Audience Begin Blend Book Bronx Child Classroom Classrooms First Imaginary Mean Myself New New York Person Process Reading Regularly Say Showing Single Somewhere Students Through Two Visit Who Wife York Young Young Person

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Sometimes I worry about the amount of paper I waste.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: About Amount Paper Sometimes Waste Worry

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: March 6th, 1959

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