I usually have an album or two playing during my writing process, chosen to set the tone and keep me in the spell of the work. When I wrote The Dragon of Cripple Creek, the music was American folk revival, plus early Dylan and Neil Young (for the energy). As I wrote my picture book story, Whale in a Fishbowl, I listened to one song alone on repeat, and that was Radiohead’s “Bloom.” Not until I was deep into the story creation did I realize the song was from a whale’s point of view. I had subconsciously chosen it.
Richard Jones' endpaper illustration for the Netflix series book by Matt Whyman, Our Planet.
The 2017 documentary series with David Attenborough, “Blue Planet II” has as its theme an orchestrated version of “Bloom,” a collaboration by Radiohead and Hans Zimmer. Now Richard Jones, the illustrator for Whale in a Fishbowl, has illustrated the children’s companion book to the related 2019 Netflix series, "Our Planet."
As John Muir wrote, "When we pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
The 2017 documentary series with David Attenborough, “Blue Planet II” has as its theme an orchestrated version of “Bloom,” a collaboration by Radiohead and Hans Zimmer. Now Richard Jones, the illustrator for Whale in a Fishbowl, has illustrated the children’s companion book to the related 2019 Netflix series, "Our Planet."
As John Muir wrote, "When we pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
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And more about Whale in a Fishbowl, as a continuing series of posts, here.
The book, now published in Korea, France, China, and Japan, will soon be published in the UK with foil typography and new cover art by Richard. More on that when it's ready.
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