“If I Were The Moon” by Jesse Terry, Jacqueline East (Illustrator) [Book Review]

Today we dive into the children’s book If I Were The Moon, out via Schiffer Publishing. There are fewer requirements more consequential than writing and illustrating when it comes to kids’ stories. Unless you can illustrate your own stories with masterful ease like Sendak or Seuss, as a writer, you need someone who can translate your vision and make it transcend the words. So, it’s especially vital, as a musician getting one of your songs turned into a children’s book, to get an artist who can not just convey the essence of the words but the spirit of the music as well. Jesse Terry’s good fortune was being connected with Jacqueline East, one of the most wholesome, positive illustrators in the game today. Watercolours are magnificently hard to pull off, especially with clean lines, and East...

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