![]() When I was at Brown University, I started taking classes at the Rhode Island School of Design and doing political illustrations for the college newspaper. I was never the best artist in my class, though, and so I didn’t think I could ever be an author/illustrator. I’d always drawn and made up stories, and the idea that this could actually be a job was like a thunderbolt out of the skies. This year, I started getting ripe tomatoes in late September!ħ-Imp: Can you briefly tell us about your road to publication?īrian: Harry Devlin, who with his wife, Wende, created some of my favorite children’s books ( The Knobby Boys to the Rescue, The Wonderful Treehouse), visited my school when I was in fifth grade. I’m frustrated by the soil and by the 70+ foot white pines, though, which have made gardening difficult. We’ve got a great beach (which I seem to only be able to get to occasionally, because of deadlines) and good roads for bicycling. Writes Publishers Weekly about his latest Bats at the Library, “the author/artist outdoes himself: the library-after-dark setting works a magic all its own, taking Lies and his audience to a an intensely personal place,” and Kirkus writes, “īrian: I live about twenty-five miles south of Boston. ![]() You know what I think of when I think of the art work of author/illustrator Brian Lies, pictured here having dinner with his bat buddy from his popular Bats at the Beach and brand-new Bats at the Library books? I think: precision, rich details, meticulous, and craftmanship. ![]()
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