Always difficult.
James and I like 'Starlight, Starbright'
Other suggestions are
First Star I See Tonight
Starlight Story
Starlight Journey
Starlight Wish
Starlight Dream
I wish tonight
The first page of the book reads:
'Starlight, starbright
First star I see tonight
I wish I may, I wish I might
Have the wish I wish tonight.'
Any comments gratefully received and thrown into the title melting pot.
Phone call this afternoon to say that the artwork arrived in the office. Wasn't worrying as my head was full of stars and I had forgotten that I had sent it.
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Every book starts with an idea, a spark, a moment of inspiration, and travels through many hands until it ends its journey with a child. This blog will track the journey of one book, written by James Mayhew, and illustrated by Jackie Morris.
Artist by day, troll by night
- Jackie Morris
- St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- Illustrator, artist and writer, mother, baker of bread, slave to many cats.
Blue moon for stargazers
CURRENT MOON
Exhibition and festival dates etc
Star gazers
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- Finished and the book now has its title
- Thank you
- Household hints for lazy busy people
- The cloth of heaven
- At the National Gallery in Scotland
- Copyright page, doodling background
- Small details from the last painting
- Rain soaked and star struck
- Four paintings and feeding the birds
- Beautiful distraction
- Work in progress
- Titles
- In the post
- Round pools and starlight
- Almost finished
- Zeitgeist
- Nine Wells, near Solva
- The mermaid's blessing
- Starfish swimming in the sea
- Other paper boat
- Benevolent Dragons
- Teaching
- Production meetings.
- Red and gold and a lost boat.
- My studio chaos.....
- What James has been doing while I have been painting
- Red and gold
- We meet a dragon, red and gold
- 'til morning light
- Procrastinating
- First page again, second thoughts
- Blue sky, cold earth, frozen water.
- Rescue dog
- Nicolleta Ceccoli
- Starlight starbright,
- In between walking.....
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Random wanderings
- James Mayhew's Blog
- Dark Sky Awareness
- Harbour for paperboat adventures
- Facebook Group/ Jackie Morris
- Slide show of some of my work.
- A moment of peace and beauty in a busy day
- Blog from one of James's students in Cambridge
- Children's book blog with a difference
- day to day wanderings of a painting person
- Dutch illustrator, beautiful work
- Dutch illustrator, Lotte Klaver, lovely drawing.
- Eclectic blog of writers
- Ginger cats blog
- Home on the web, Jackie Morris
- How to make a paper boat
- Illustrator in Yorkshire
- Inspirational.
- Music, Sufjan Stevens
- Nicoletta Ceccoli, Italian illustrator of exceptional beauty
- Otters from The Toymaker
- Painting and drawing and thinking from Joel Stewart
- Publisher of beautiful books for children and people who love stories
- Rebecca Dautremer, stunning illustrator
To buy Starlight Sailor
Under my pillow waiting to be read is..
13 comments:
Light, bright, starlit night.
Starry Storey
A story by starlight
Er, can't think of anything original, just wanted to say how brilliant it is that you've done this, and how the blog has kept us in touch with it all....it's such an exciting journey, and of course, it's not over yet! Great stuff!
Starlight Dreaming
Just wondered if there was any place in your book to show how to make the little paper boats so everyone can go on their own journey???
It's looking wonderful. I love the back page.
XKarry, Rhea and ZoeX
Rhea has just suggested
Starlight Blessing
and Zoe suggested
Starlit brightness !
x
I'm pretty sure I've seen "Wish I May" as a title.
"Starlight Journey" reads well visually.And would tie in well with your star charts on endpapers.
I have a trunkful of titles, but not many completed stories to go with them! Slack!!
The last page has instructions on how to make a boat Karry, and for those who can't wait there are links to some in the side bar of this blog, somewhere.
Starlight Journey, or Starlight Voyage to go with the boats?
Star Dreaming?
I love the idea that there are two stories totally different with the same title. That one phrase can inspire several stories is wonderful.
Starlight, Starbright is so good its a shame to change it.
I'm thinking the cadence has to be similar--if "starlight" is the first word, then the second must also have two syllables.
If the first word is "star" then you could do something like "Star Song"; Star Dreams"; "Star Wish"..? If you move from the actual words of the little poem, the idea of a night journey with its dreams of dragons and stars and bright swirls of color begins to take over the imagination. [Star Journey--Cave of Stars--Dragon Star?] Who would have thought this challenge would emerge?
What a wonderful adventure, to follow your progress from sunny Australia.Here's a few more.
Starlight,Starnight.
The Dreaming Dragon. Starlight Dragon
The Star Sailor /Starlight Sailor.
Starboat Sailor.
"Starlight, starbright.." is perfect. Partly because of the rhythm but mostly because it hints at depths within because we know, intuitively, that is only the beginning.We know there is a journey. It isnt a complete sentence or object. It breathes fantasy.
The Magic of The Starlight Journey.
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