This past November, the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, unveiled a new exhibit, ‘Never Abandon Imagination: The Fantastical Art of Tony DiTerlizzi.’ I had a chance to chat with DiTerlizzi about the exhibit, his inspirations, and (of course) ‘Star Wars.’
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In this episode, we chat with Tony DiTerlizzi about his career, writing for kids, the process of creating new characters and worlds, concerns about telling the familiar story of ‘Star Wars’ yet again, and our mutual love of Beverly Cleary.
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Today’s Bounded Enthusiasm episode is an interview with Tony DiTerlizzi, one of my favorite author-illustrators and a semi-regular guest on the podcast. We talk about his new book of RPG art and his upcoming picture book with Mo Willems.
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Tony DiTerlizzi is an award-winning children’s book illustrator and author–his ‘WondLa’ trilogy is a favorite in my household, and we’ve got several of his pictures books as well. But before ‘The Spiderwick Chronicles,’ before his Caldecott Honor for ‘The Spider and the Fly,’ DiTerlizzi was a geeky kid who loved playing ‘Dungeons & Dragons.’
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When I was a kid, I drooled over the inside covers of Dungeons & Dragons books, marvelling at all the different campaign settings and splatbooks. Out of everything, the Planescape setting was the most fascinating.
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Today’s episode of Bounded Enthusiasm is an interview with Tony DiTerlizzi. He’s an author and illustrator of many books for kids, including one of my family’s favorites, the WondLa series, and I’ve actually interviewed him a couple of times before. Today we’re talking about his new book, a picture book about Star Wars featuring paintings by the late great Ralph McQuarrie.
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The WondLa series, written and illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi, is a fantastic science fiction journey that has been one of my family’s favorites, and we’ve been eagerly anticipating this third volume.
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Tony DiTerlizzi is one of my favorite author-illustrators, and his WondLa series is a family favorite. The final book of the trilogy, The Battle for WondLa, is out this month, and I got a chance to speak with DiTerlizzi before he heads out for his book tour. We talked about all things WondLa, his upcoming Star Wars book, Dungeons and Dragons, and more.
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The Battle for WondLa, the final book in Tony DiTerlizzi’s sci-fi trilogy, now has a cover!
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The Spiderwick Chronicles is ten years old! To celebrate, I asked Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black a few questions about the series.
Continue ReadingReading creepy stories always set the mood for this festive holiday in the DiTerlizzi household. Here are some favorites that have endured for years.
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Tony DiTerlizzi’s new book, A Hero for WondLa, was just released this week and he’s currently on his book tour. It’s a sequel to The Search for WondLa, and both books are great sci-fi stories for kids, with gorgeous illustrations and wonderful characters. I spoke with DiTerlizzi over Skype last week just before his tour began, and had a fun conversation about the WondLa series, being dads, technology and nature, and some of his sillier books.
Continue ReadingIn October 2010, I reviewed Tony DiTerlizzi’s wonderful sci-fi adventure, The Search for WondLa. It’s a book intended for middle-grade readers, but my wife and I absolutely loved it, and it was a long wait for the second volume. Well, …
Continue ReadingLast month I wrote about Tony DiTerlizzi’s The Search for WondLa, a fantastic sci-fi tale for middle-grade readers. DiTerlizzi is back with some new books, but this time they’re for “tiny earthlings.” Tony teamed up with his wife Angela to …
Continue ReadingThe Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi Eva Nine has never met another human being in her twelve years of life. She lives in an underground Sanctuary with a Multi-Utility Task Help Robot—”Muthr” for short—who has been training Eva in …
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