After graduating from college in 2006, we headed off to China where we taught English for six months. And ate A LOT of noodles. After that we spent three months traveling through Southeast Asia attempting to bargain in languages we didn’t speak. Naturally, that led us to West Africa. Casey had a Fulbright grant to research the role of Islam in the education system of Mali and Steven took the opportunity to paint. We lived in multiple cities, including the ever-mysterious Timbuktu, only to realize… well, we don’t want to give away the whole book.
Hold your breath for it until fall 2010. Then thank Roaring Brook Press for making it happen.
We’re in the thick of the many revisions these days. Here are some pages from the third draft, with Casey’s words and Steven’s pencils sketches, that we’re going through as we speak.
And now here are some rough sample pages from the second draft: (forgive the typos and all other kinds of weirdness)
And for the especially curious, here’s some of the very first draft.
To Timbuktu
After graduating from college in 2006, we headed off to China where we taught English for six months. And ate A LOT of noodles. After that we spent three months traveling through Southeast Asia attempting to bargain in languages we didn’t speak. Naturally, that led us to West Africa. Casey had a Fulbright grant to research the role of Islam in the education system of Mali and Steven took the opportunity to paint. We lived in multiple cities, including the ever-mysterious Timbuktu, only to realize… well, we don’t want to give away the whole book.
Hold your breath for it until fall 2010. Then thank Roaring Brook Press for making it happen.
We’re in the thick of the many revisions these days. Here are some pages from the third draft, with Casey’s words and Steven’s pencils sketches, that we’re going through as we speak.
And now here are some rough sample pages from the second draft: (forgive the typos and all other kinds of weirdness)
And for the especially curious, here’s some of the very first draft.