Drawing out the stories by Julia Jones (and Claudia Myatt)
These are Claudia Myatt's drawings for the latest Golden Duck publication, Please Tell Me More -- due from the printers this week! Do they need words? I didn't think so. Imagine they are placed in pairs at opposite corners in the bottom half of a double page spread. (The final pair are on a page together.) I'm certain that if you trusted your eyes you could read Claudia's life story here, then write / draw / pant / dictate your own, if you wished. Or you could look, with a friend at any one of the images and talk about what it felt like to start a new school, or that moment when you children left home, or that bad day at the doctors ... But we are so used to the written instruction. "Other people won't SEE it, Julia," I was told. Please Tell Me More is a book for people with dementia and their friends / carers to create together, if they wish. Of course I wanted to make it obvious. It's the supp...