Friday, June 6, 2014

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Author/illustrator Ruth Ohi to show and tell at Festival of Words

By Lisa Goudy


Ruth Ohi loves to see her characters brought to life on the page.

“When I’m coming up with an idea, I see the storyboard, the pages, what I would like to see in the picture book in my head and I can see the character alive in my head. So it is satisfying to illustrate my own stories,” she said.

“All my author illustrated books, they’re emotional reactions to something that I’ve experienced or seen or read in a newspaper. I write and draw from that and ask myself, ‘What if?’ and that’s usually my starting point for a story.”

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