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About Myrtle
THE STORY OF MYRTLE
The idea for Myrtle’s story came from my daughter’s
experience with a bully. After lots of tears and many meetings
with guidance professionals in her middle school, the idea was
to turn a painful situation into a positive one; where instead
of feeling like a victim, she would become empowered, stronger
and more self-confident. It worked.
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THE DUMMY
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picture book starts to really take shape with the “dummy”,
where I begin to put the words and drawings together in book form.
I made a little dummy for Myrtle because I wanted to create a small
book that children could curl up with. They could read it under
the covers by themselves or on a lap with a caring adult. .
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The dummy is where I really get to know the characters in my
book. I takes more than one dummy to really get to know everyone.
When I made the first dummy Myrtle was a girl and so was Frances.
By the last dummy the characters were all mice! Click on the picture
of the dummy to compare the first dummy to the last dummy.
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SKETCHES
I
made lots of character sketches of different animals before I decided
what I wanted Myrtle to look like. To see what Myrtle could have
looked like as a cat, a rabbit or even a goose, click on the Myrtle
sketch.
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