INFO: Kranky Kids Radio Club Interviews
Here is our first victim – er – wonderful and gracious subject patiently answering our questions.
Children's book author Ian Lendler came to Santa Rita Elementary again on November 12, 2014 and gave a presentation to grades 4-6 about his latest book:
The Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue Presents Macbeth
Afterwards, he was grilled by the Kranky Kids Radio Club in an attempt to make him divulge such secrets as “Seriously, what's with all the ketchup?” and eighteen other other riveting queries.
The week before he arrived, the radio club talked about how our interview would be conducted – where the mic would be placed, where each student would sit while asking, where Mr. Lendler would be seated – stuff like that. Each student was to come ready with their own individual question and, if we had time, additional questions could be asked.
The first question was about his previous children's book:
An Undone Fairy Tale
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Question: “What inspired you to write An Undone Fairy Tale? What gave you the idea of something incomplete?”
The following eighteen questions are about his take on Macbeth as a graphic children's book. You can listen to the entire interview here:
Or, listen to each individual question and answer:
2
Question: “Would you like to turn this into a series and make other books like this?”
3
Question: “Why did you make the book into a graphic novel form?”
4
Question: “Why did you choose to write your first book about Macbeth instead of other plays from Shakespeare?”
5
Question: “Why are you so bad at drawing?” (Marco wasn't being rude. Mr. Lendler claimed to be a poor drawer during his presentation.)
6
Question: “Why did you choose animals to replace the characters from the real Macbeth from people?”
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Question: “How old were you when you first decided that you wanted to write?”
8
Question: “So what do you like to do besides writing? Like, do you have any other hobbies?”
9
Question: “Why did you choose your career as an author? Why not an engineer or a director, etc.?”
10
Question: “Do you enjoy writing children's books or adult books more?”
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Question: “Who decided what animals were which characters? You or the illustrator?”
12
Question: “Can you please elaborate on what do you mean when a stork is not born from a mother?”
13
Question: “What do the masks on the top of the cover – what animals are they and what do they mean?”
14
Question: “Why did you exactly choose Stratford zoo? Why didn't you choose, like, any other zoo, like, the San Diego zoo or any other zoo?”
15
Question: “How did you choose, like, the characters like how did you decide that Bansky would be like a hyena or something?”
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Question: “Why did you choose to write a Shakespearean play? Why didn't you choose to write, like, another famous writer's play?”
17
Question: “Why'd you make Macbeth like ketchup?”
18
Question: “Was Macbeth a childhood favorite?”
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Question: “And you, uhm, ever think you'll write a book for Hamlet?”