I think sometimes there is a telescoping that can happen between generations, and that distance can allow for clearer-seeing. I was very close with my grandmother, she died just before the book was published. Was their relationship inspired at all by your relationship with your grandmother? I love the relationship between Julian and his Nana – it very much reminded me on my own Nan and her love and acceptance when I came out to her. It’s a story about a little boy who lives with his Abuela in Brooklyn, and he loves mermaids. Without giving too much away, can you tell us a bit more about Julian is a Mermaid? Find out more about Jessica and her work here!įirst of all, congratulations on being shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2019! How does it feel? And it is essential to build into that foundation a curiosity about, and compassion for, the breadth of human experience…” Jessica Love lives in Brooklyn and is the author and illustrator of Julián is a Mermaid, published by Candlewick Press. They are the foundation we lay for how to make sense out of the world. “Picture books are our very first stories.
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