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GARCIA-NAVARRO: I mean, it is really interesting the way you do deal with anxiety and other mental health issues in these books. And then knowing that this is my friend Shannon and I'm trying to protect her in every way possible but also trying to show as much of the truth as possible of the times when she wasn't necessarily being kind and she was being a little bit of the bully herself. And it's emotionally very difficult to do.
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So it's a way of an adult interpreting what a child is struggling with. And in the scenes where she's more weak, especially when her anxiety is showing up, she diminishes in the panel and she gets smaller and she's the least active character in each of those panels. And you'll see, in all those scenes she's always head-level with the other characters. So where you place the camera position - whether you make it an overhead shot or you put it in an underhead shot - it changes the power of the character in each of the panels.Īnd throughout this particular book, Shannon is a lot more empowered. I have to draw it from the perspective of an adult interpreting the action - what a 10-year-old and 11-year-old would - doing. You know, what I actually felt when I was drawing all this was Shannon gets to tell the story from her perspective as a 10-year-old or as an 11-year-old. She just likes to really torture me sometimes. And how's that as an illustrator, LeUyen? You feel ashamed, so you start to pull it all internal. I would also have to say, sixth grade is the year where everything happens inside of us. They're all trying to understand, OK, what's still funny? What's not? What's immature? What's not? What can I still do? What can I not? What you don't know is everybody else is going through the same thing. You become hyper-aware of everybody's facial expressions and intonations and what does that mean. HALE: So "Best Friends" is specifically about sixth grade - ages 11 and 12. Why do you think these friendships at that age are so complex? And that rings, I think, so true, as you mentioned, for so many people. Only as soon as I'd figure out the rules, they'd change again. And in the book, you write, sixth-grade friendships were like a game. You both really capture a lot of the angst and whimsy of being a kid sort of looking for love with your peers. I really felt like Shannon crawled into my own head. And so, I mean, if you really went through the book and colored the hair black and - I kept the glasses and everything else, the story would've been exactly the same. And something very similar had happened to me. And I remember reading it through and immediately connecting with the story because - I almost want to say it's a universal thing - that every kid seems to go through some sort of purging of friendships and making friends and then losing them and trying to figure out their place in the world. And what's funny was Shannon actually sent me a copy of the manuscript before it had been picked up by anyone. PHAM: You know, Shannon and I are actually really good friends. Why did you want to be a part of this project?
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GARCIA-NAVARRO: LeUyen, you illustrate the "Princess In Black" series as well. And I felt like I had gone - I'd through so many really trying stuff with friends when I was a kid, but it's not the same as just telling her about it. HALE: I don't think it's a good idea and I don't recommend it, but I had a daughter who was really struggling with friendships, and her preferred reading material was graphic novels. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Why did you want to write about this? It's all - as far as my memory holds, it's all true. We should say that this new graphic novel is a sequel to the first book in this series called "Real Friends," which talks about friendship in elementary school. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Shannon, I'm going to start with you. She's the author of the bestselling "Princess In Black" books. It's written by a real Shannon - Shannon Hale. The new graphic novel "Best Friends" follows Shannon, a young girl in middle school, as she makes and loses friends while trying to find herself. But as the years pass, cliques form, bullying starts, and it can be difficult to find your place. When you were little, best friends are easy to come by. If you were once a young girl or are raising a young girl, you may know that navigating the treacherous terrain of school friendships is hard.