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THE WASHINGTON POST
What distinguishes Burrowes most is her cut-paper technique. After sketching the complete picture on tracing paper, she cuts out each element of the illustration, then she creates a layered paper collage that gives a three-dimensional quality to the pictures.:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:
WASHINGTON PARENT
Creating the artwork for Grandma's Purple Flowers was much more challenging than the writing. Burrowes began by painting the pictures. She was a painter by training, after all, having earned her bachelor of fine arts degree at Howard University, and she wanted a painterly, impressionist look for this book... Burrowes came up with the compromise of painted backgrounds and cutout leaves, people and flowers. The result is a three-dimensional feel to every flower and shirttail and braid on the page, with thick, painterly brushstrokes for walls and sky.:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:
HERNDON OBSERVER
Her illustrations decorate the pages of over a dozen children's books. Vibrant images of little girls and boys so real that readers sometimes reach down to touch them, to feel their silky hair, their woven garments, their buttery skin. Like a camera, Adjoa Burrowes, a Herndon resident, captures the words of other people's stories, and sometimes her own, and brings them to life through an unusual technique: cut-paper collages.Read the full Herndon Observer article
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NEA TODAY
Writers and publishers have discovered that an enormous number of children deal with grief and loss. Ironically, their book titles have appeared at a time in the nation's history when we need them a great deal. Some of the best... Grandma's Purple Flowers by Adjoa J. Burrowes.Read the full NEA Today article
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THE BOWIE STAR
If you want to find out how to deal with bullies, ask the fourth graders at Holy Trinity Episcopal Day School in Bowie. They are writing the book. In a special unit on bullying, the children took part in a bookmaking workshop Nov. 5 led by Adjoa J. Burrowes, a children's book author and illustrator.Read the full Bowie Star article
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JOYJONES ONLINE
Beautiful words plus vivid images. That's the basic formula for a picture book. Typically, one person supplies one half of that equation and somebody else provides the other. But in the case of Adjoa Burrowes, she is the talent that does both. Although an author, Burrowes defines herself as an artist first.Read the full JoyJones Online article
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LEE AND LOW BOOKS: BOOK TALK
When I wrote this book, my baby boy was just a few months old. Life was sweet. I lived, along with my husband and two older children, in a beautiful wooded neighborhood in West Virginia. I savored the lush greenery around us and occasionally saw deer outside my kitchen window.Read the full Book Talk article
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AUTHORCHATS
[Interviewer] I noticed that the main character (Grandma's Purple Flowers) has the same name as your daughter. Is that a coincidence?[Adjoa Burrowes] No it isn't. I did that on purpose. I wanted to include her and make her a part of the book.
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