08 Nov 2007 1400H

Arrow to the Sun

In the middle of a presentation today, I saw something that brought me back to 2nd grade, a book that probably influenced me as much as any other to try and become a designer someday, which is Gerald McDermott’s Caldecott Award winning book of 1975, Arrow to the Sun, a retelling of an Pueblo Indian story about a boy looking for his father, and his struggle to become a man through a set of trials. I have never forgotten the dazzling array of images and colors and shapes, and it probably didn’t hurt that it resonated with me in that incipient era of low-res, big pixel videogames.

It occurs to me now that such a story could with not a lot of effort be brought to life in a way that was not possible back in the 1970s, and thereby gain a new audience for today.

You can take a look at some of the art in the book here.

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12 Nov 2007 0732H

K writes:

That actually looks really familiar to me, but I don’t think I ever read it as a child. I must have read it to kids I babysat or something.

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