California, the Magic Island and Illustrating California History
Organization:
California Historical Society
Category:
Cultural or Historical
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
6/2/2016
End Date:
6/2/2016
Start Time:
6:00 PM
End Time:
8:00 PM
Event
Info:
Come learn about how author, Doug Hansen, incorporates California's rich history into fantastic illustrations and descriptions for his children's books, which include: Mother Goose in California, Aesop in California, and his newest offering, California, the Magic Island. This is also Heyday Books San Francisco launch event for California, the Magic Island.
More about the speaker: Doug Hansen was born in Fresno, California, and is the eldest of six children in an artistic family. Doug has worked as a Fresno Bee newsroom artist, freelance illustrator, and cartoonist, and he illustrated David Mas Masumoto's books Letters to the Valley: A Harvest of Memories and Heirlooms: Letters from a Peach Farmer, as well as Mother Goose in California and Aesop in California. He teaches rendering and illustration at his alma mater, California State University, Fresno.
More about the Book:
Queen Calafia, the main character of a sixteenth-century Spanish romance about an island overflowing with gold and populated by Amazon-like women, is incensed when she hears that we have adopted her name for our state. Being the good and reasonable queen that she is, she's willing to hear from twenty-six animals about why California is worthy of her name. But if she decides it isn't, she'll launch an army of goddesses riding griffins to wreak her vengeance! Each animal characterizes California in a key cultural object or historical event: for example, the swordfish describes the tomols of the Chumash people, while the gull tells Calafia about the Gold Rush. Large, intricate illustrations display a wealth of research into every subject, rendered with the highest level of artistic skill.
More majestic than most ABC books, California, the Magic Island is a delightful exploration of what makes California worthy of its regal name.
In partnership with Heyday Books and Cartoon Art Museum.
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