Meet illustrator Clayton Hanmer...What makes a good friend? Loyalty, a sense of humor, and honesty....
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1 T h e P e t i t P r o u s t Q u e s t i o n n a i r e f r o m O w l k i d s B o o k s Downloaded from OwlkidsBooks.com/ResourcesActivities/TheInsideTrack When you were a kid, what was your favorite thing to do? Drawing, playing in the ditch with frogs, LEGO, and building forts. What did you most dislike doing when you were a child? Brushing my teeth and picking rocks out of the yard for my parents (don’t ask). As a child, where did you dream of living? On an island with a fort and some frogs. What did you think you were good at when you were a kid? Drawing and LEGO building. I won a local LEGO-building contest at the mall one year. It all went to my head. When you were a kid in school, what did you look for in a friend? Weirdos who were nice, could draw, and had good ideas for things to draw. What did you want to be when you grew up? Either an orthodontist, an engineer, an architect, or a tractor salesman. What was your favorite book as a child? I was into anything by Richard Scarry, and then I was into those Where’s Waldo? books and the Choose Your Own Adventure series. And then I got into humor comics like MAD and Cracked magazines. Meet illustrator Clayton Hanmer 978-1-77147-146-6 $17.95 CDN / $16.95 US CLAYTON HANMER is an illustrator whose energetic comic style has given him a surprisingly broad range of clients, from The Globe and Mail to OWL Magazine. He is the illustrator of Owlkids Books titles The Secret Life of Money and Not Your Typical Book About the Environment. He lives in Port Hope, Ontario. Visit his website at claytonhanmer.com and find him on Twitter as @cton. Half-Truths and Brazen Lies answers questions like: Why do we lie? What types of lies are there? And when is it okay or even good to lie? Told in a witty, conversational tone with an index and full- color illustrations, the book takes a thorough and entertaining approach to this fundamental aspect of human behavior. Continued on next page ►
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The Petit Proust Questionnairefrom Owlkids Books
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When you were a kid, what was your favorite thing to do?Drawing, playing in the ditch with frogs, LEGO, and building forts.
What did you most dislike doing when you were a child?Brushing my teeth and picking rocks out of the yard for my parents (don’t ask).
As a child, where did you dream of living?On an island with a fort and some frogs.
What did you think you were good at when you were a kid?Drawing and LEGO building. I won a local LEGO-building contest at the mall one year. It all went to my head.
When you were a kid in school, what did you look for in a friend?Weirdos who were nice, could draw, and had good ideas for things to draw.
What did you want to be when you grew up?Either an orthodontist, an engineer, an architect, or a tractor salesman.
What was your favorite book as a child?I was into anything by Richard Scarry, and then I was into those Where’s Waldo? books and the Choose Your Own Adventure series. And then I got into humor comics like MAD and Cracked magazines.
Meet illustrator Clayton Hanmer
978-1-77147-146-6$17.95 CDN / $16.95 US978-1-77147-146-6978-1-77147-146-6
CLAYTON HANMER is an illustrator whose energetic comic style has given him a surprisingly broad range of clients, from The Globe and Mail
to OWL Magazine. He is the illustrator of Owlkids Books titles The Secret Life of Money and Not Your Typical Book About the Environment. He lives in Port Hope, Ontario.Visit his website at claytonhanmer.com and fi nd him on Twitter as @cton.
Half-Truths and Brazen Lies answers questions like: Why do we lie? What types of lies are there? And when is it okay or even good to lie? Told in a witty, conversational tone with an index and full-color illustrations, the book takes a thorough and entertaining approach to this fundamental aspect of human behavior.
Continued on next page ►
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The Petit Proust Questionnairefrom Owlkids Books
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What is your favorite pastime now?Biking, building bikes, and fiddling with and breaking things around my property (like gardening and home maintenance).
What do you find an absolute chore?Laundry and changing the winter tires over on our family car. Ugh.
If you could live anywhere, where would you go?Somewhere in Europe. I REALLY love coffee, pastries, and bikes.
What is the one talent you wish you had?The ability to play a musical instrument. I’m all thumbs.
What makes a good friend?Loyalty, a sense of humor, and honesty. That pretty much makes a good human, too. Oh, and a rad car like a Lamborghini or something.
If you weren’t an author or illustrator, what job would you have?Probably an alpaca farmer. Those alpacas are so weird looking and fuzzy! And then I could finally buy a tractor, too.
What children’s books have caught your attention lately?A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories by John Martz is super beautiful, cool, and different.
If you had to have a motto, what would it be?“Just go about it!”
