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Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Any Her His Instill Openness Something Students Teacher

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With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Any Appropriate Book Find Making Manner Matter Subject Try Where

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When I present the Charlie Parker book, I do a call and response that works quite well. With the Thelonious Monk book, I play the music and work with kids in a group to create a color wheel and show how the wheel can be mapped on a 12-tone chromatic scale.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Book Call Charlie Charlie Parker Color Create Group How Kids Monk Music Parker Play Present Quite Response Scale Show Well Wheel Work Works

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Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Any Arts Inventive Maintain Sciences Sense Teacher Truly

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Part of why I like watercolor is that mistakes are visible, and you can't really repair much. It has to look easy. When it comes out, it looks easy, but to get to that point takes a lot of doing.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Doing Easy Get Like Look Looks Lot Mistakes Much Out Part Point Really Repair Takes Visible Why You

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The Caldecott Award has allowed me to keep doing what I'm doing for some time longer, for which I am ever grateful.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Allowed Am Award Doing Ever Grateful Keep Longer Me Some Time Which I Am

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It will always take a certain audacity to write or to make art of any kind.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Always Any Art Audacity Certain Kind Make Take Will Write

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For the continued survival of our planet and humanity, it is crucial that certain discoveries and skills and inventions made by people over the years be passed on from one human generation to the next, from one person, face-to-face, to another.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Another Certain Continue Crucial Discoveries Face-To-Face Generation Human Humanity Inventions Made Next Our Our Planet Over Passed People Person Planet Skills Survival Years

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Can you really learn to knit from a diagram? Try it. Do you want to learn to ski or surf by yourself? You could drown or run into a tree.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Could Diagram Drown Knit Learn Really Run Ski Surf Tree Try Want You Yourself

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I wasn't always minimal. In the early days, I was laying it on as thickly as I could, trying very hard to get it right. But I found that the harder I tried, the more tired whatever it was I was working on looked. And then I grew tired of it as well.

~Chris Raschka

Topics: Always Could Days Early Early Days Found Get Grew Hard Harder Laying Looked Minimal More Right Then Tired Tried Trying Very Well Whatever Working I Tried

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: March 6th, 1959

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