Blanca Lacasa: "I do not understand why it seems that children's literature is less or less relevant"
You worked many years in one of the great headwaters of fashion and trends journalism, what do you miss that world?
I have a very good memory of those years.I had a great time, I learned a lot, I did very cool songs, I met people with a lot of talent, I agreed with great people and I think I caught a fairly golden era of fashion journalism.But I am not very supportive of vital nostalgia.
What have you applied what you learned in those years to your facet as a story writer?
I think that writing so many years, of such diverse issues and, in many cases, in texts of limited dimensions as it often happens in this type of press is a good training.It speeds up your fingers and head and gives you a synthesis power that is then very appreciated when writing a children's album.
Journalist, narrator, illustrator, seamstress, music.You are a Renaissance woman.When and how did you discover that, in addition, you had something to tell the children?
It should not be considered at all a Renaissance woman.Let's say that I have lost quite shame and a certain scenic fear and that makes, as I like many things, because I try to see what comes out.That you have ended up writing stories is something quite random.I started writing a story by chapters to a friend - adult - who was going through a bad time.That story became almost a musical.And from there I realized that I felt very comfortable in that field.I must also say that I have never militated much in that distinction between children's and adult literature.I have never stopped reading books supposedly for children.
Should we be "nanny" to write stories for children?
Truth to be told I do not know.If nanny is having children, obviously not.If Nanny is that the children's head seems like a fascinating thing, I think so.I am listening to the children's diatribes.
What were your two favorite stories as a child and why?What value or idea printed in your personality that you are still able to recognize today?
I was Voraz Reader.I liked nothing more than reading.Nothing.I remember the caramel fairy of Gloria Fuertes.I loved it.I don't know if it was for that Book of Gloria Fuertes or for another for which we went to the Book Fair.I remember my feeling of being buried by foreign legs, of great heat and thinking: "I would one day to be I who signs at the fair".It happened a few years later and is still my favorite annual event.I also liked the brothers Grimm, Jules Verne, Alicia in Wonderland ... I imagine that the inventiveness in those books enchanted me.But my favorite character was undoubtedly Guillermo Brown of the fascinating Richmal Crompton.
What has been the best of working with Errata Naturae?
All.They are absolutely wonderful.I really like the philosophy they have and how books work.They have given both Gomez and me a lot of freedom and confidence.And we have had a great time in the process of ¡ey!This is my house, something that for me is basic.And, of course, that it is a joy to be in such a careful catalog.
What do you think about the radical separation made by the editorial industry between authors "for children" and authors "for adults"?Do you think those categories are condemned to disappear?
What told you before.I don't understand it, I will never understand it.It seems that children's literature is a minor or less relevant literature or what do I know.Nor do I understand very well because at a certain age you cannot enjoy, for example, Momo de Ende.I read it recently and there is too many layers there to think that this has an expiration date.A children's album like where Sendak monsters live, to name another classic, it doesn't end when one passes to the adult phase.I am not in any case in favor of the stagnant compartments, or that fateful distinction between high and low culture.Provided that something (a reading in this case) is enjoyed, is fetén.No matter the audience to which you are addressed and the age one has.
Who is the author or author who has inspired you the most in this aspect of your creativity and why?
I find it very difficult to answer this type of questions.I have gone through thousands of literary obsessions and I don't know who has inspired me and who does not.But if we talk about children's literature, I have to refer to Gloria Fuertes, Charles M.Schulz and his Peanuts, Bill Watterson and his Calvin and Hobbes and, of course, the little Nicolás de Goscinny/Site.Unconditional love for all of them.Apart for Peter Pan de James M.Barrie.I was very obsessed with this character for a season.I have a beautiful edition extended by Leopoldo María Panero.Peter Pan's original story is quite chilling and cruel, little to do with the sweetened idea we have of the character and his acolytes.Then I got the play, with a very cool essay by Silvia Herreros de Tejada to end up reading Kensington's gardens by Rodrigo Fresán and watching the adaptation to the 1924 cinema, one of the most amazing movies I have ever seen.
What great work of "adult" literature seems clear to your vocation, its structure, its message (or whatever) a children's story?
First of the work of Calvino comes to mind that I think he travels very well between those two worlds.And if I think a little more, I would perhaps put many of the great storytellers considered for adults from Poe to Chekhov, of course, through Salinger or Bradbury.The story has also been unfairly considered for too long as a minor genre.
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Your first great editorial success, neither wow nor Miau, has become a kind of inclusive allegation.Did you think it would happen?Was it the message you wanted to convey?
I must confess that when I write a book I do not think about the message.There is a story that makes me funny, I write it and then the interpretations come.It is obvious that when one chooses a story and not another is wanting to convey something, but in my case it is in a very organic and little conscious way.And it makes me immensely happy that neither wow, nor Miau has become that inclusive allegation you mention.Is very pretty.
What is the most exciting anecdote that a father or mother has told you about the relationship of their children with your stories?
Well, from fathers and mothers, asking me to take another book, that they were fed up with reading the ni wow, nor miau every night to therapists or teachers telling me that they were using that same book to talk about diversity ... it also makes me very excited when messages arrive fromVery far congratulating me for some book of mine.
What influences not having lived the experience of motherhood when it comes to understanding the children's universe.Is it a factor that allows you to put more distance?
Don't know.In my case, I think it's an imagination issue.The children's universe is very imaginative and there is a lot of fantasy.And I have a little about that ... so I think I connect quickly.
What is the most surprising thing or the one that has left you more shocked that a child has told you after reading you?
What I like most is when they die of laughter.And what surprises me most is that they, start.So suddenly they ask you why almost (the protagonist of two of my books to which in the first volume his nose, an ear, one eye, fingers ...) he recovers everything that has lost less the fingers.For them, the strange thing is not that a girl's parts fall, what cannot be is to recover everything but fingers.It is in plan "Where are those fingers?".It was in my first book.Since then I have been very careful to leave everything well tied.Hahaha.
"Hey!This is my house ”is a very well documented book in which he explains to children what the homes of many animals are.How is it done to choose the information that is reached to the children and the one who does not?
Keep in mind that a book for children will always have a limited text.That conditions a lot.You have to go to the point and be fun.In this case, very technical or complicated issues of explaining, outside.Curious, unexpected or directly flashing things, inside.If they have to do with peanut (such as the fecal cap), absolutely essential!
What secret ingredients should always be added for the child to get excited?
I don't believe in magical formulas.But I would say humor.Children pirra humor.
Which are the ones that give "Baba" automatically?
I am not sure, but perhaps that a moralizing intention is seen too much.That is, the absence of humor [laughs].
What three children's books would you take to a desert island?
Alicia in Wonderland in an amazing edition of Akal because it is a book that never ends.The beautiful Ane, Mona and Hulda by Jenny Jordahl, of my recent favorites.The Catalina Tebeo and the Island of Cyclops and its continuation Catalina.THE SECRET OF THE CITY OF THE RATS OF MIGUEL B.Nuñez that are fabulous and trchantes.And anyone illustrated by Gómez (my favorites, the finger in Paula Merlán's nose or by a fly of no church), some fist (Ñam! Or the invisible girl illustrated by Marta Altés), the lions do not eatby André Bouchard, Astronauts of Chang-Hoon Jung and In-Kyunk Noh that is a beauty and very funny.And some of Shinsuke Yoshitake that is a prodigy of ingenuity and always makes me laugh madly.
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