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Multiple award-winning illustrator Bill Slavin was born in Belleville, Ontario. His illustration work includes the Stanley series of books (Stanley’s Party, Stanley at Sea, etc.) with Linda Bailey as well as a number of other beloved children’s books including Robert Heidbreder’s Drumheller Dinosaur Dance (co-illustrated with Esperança Melo) and his own picture book, Who Broke the Teapot?!

Bill lives in Millbrook, Ontario with his wife, Esperanca Melo. Recently he has returned to his childhood love of comics and graphic novels, writing and illustrating the trilogy for kids, Elephants Never Forget, as well as the Mordecai Crow trilogy.

Secrets of Jarrow, his first book with Renegade, is now joined by the second in the series, Quid Pro Crow. Bi ...more

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Where did the idea for Mordecai Crow originally come from?

Bill Slavin Hi Alexander,
I was banging around ideas for a graphic novel, and as a lover of medieval history I sort of knew that I wanted to set it in a similar wo…moreHi Alexander,
I was banging around ideas for a graphic novel, and as a lover of medieval history I sort of knew that I wanted to set it in a similar world to that after the fall of Rome - visually, as much as anything, because I hate drawing straight lines! The early medieval period must have been a time when people were wandering around in the ruins of a lost civilization, seeing crumbling buildings that they had no idea how they were constructed (fun fact, we lost the ability to make proper cement for a millennium!) and thinking, who were those people that built these colossal structures?
Then, one day our electrical grid went down and stayed down for a few days, and I began thinking, that world could easily be ours. We inhabit a world that few of us really understand how it works anymore, we have become disconnected from such basic things as growing our own food. What if the power stayed down? What if we lost the Internet? Hmmm...
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Bill Slavin Hi Jim,
Yes, the Follow link must work because I see there are some people following! And speaking of following, this is a good chance for me to plug m…moreHi Jim,
Yes, the Follow link must work because I see there are some people following! And speaking of following, this is a good chance for me to plug my newsletter - you can subscribe at the bottom of my blog page at www.billslavin.com.
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	Who Broke the Teapot?! 3.80 avg rating — 137 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Made 4.26 avg rating — 82 ratings — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Big City Otto (Elephants Never Forget, #1) 3.25 avg rating — 63 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secrets of Jarrow (Mordecai Crow trilogy #1) 4.64 avg rating — 33 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cat Came Back: A Traditional Song 4.14 avg rating — 29 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Big Top Otto (Elephants Never Forget, #2) 3.63 avg rating — 30 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Big Star Otto (Elephants Never Forget, #3) 3.29 avg rating — 24 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood and Fire 4.79 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Stone Lion (Northern Lights Books for Children) 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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