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Life's Work

Jules Feiffer says he feels lucky that he’s doing work that is still challenging and that he loves.

Counterpoint

For Jules Feiffer, the great fun in creating a book is in the counterpoint between what the text says and how the illustrations react.

Kate and Jules Feiffer

Meet award-winning illustrator, cartoonist, and writer Jules Feiffer and his talented daughter, Kate, also a writer of children’s books.

Opening lines

In the early stages of a book, the story can sometimes seem to write itself. Then come the careful revisions and polish.

Visualizing the story

Kate Feiffer’s background as a television news reporter taught her to write to the pictures. Jules Feiffer says that picture book making is kind of like film; the text is the starting point for storyboards.

The King's Breakfast

Julie Andrews and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton read one of their favorite family poems.

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