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Peer feedback

Students must be taught how to give positive peer feedback.

Life's Work

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

Playing favorites

 Jules Feiffer shares his fondness for By the Side of the Road, a picture book with a not-so-happy ending.

Opening lines

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

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.

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.

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