The Visitors of Pompadour (ePub)

Peggy Canaga Larson grew up in a suburb of Los Angeles and witnessed much violence. To counter that, she discovered illustrated children’s books with her first trip to the library. 


 


“The greatest day was finding out I could take as many books home with me for free, and with my mom’s help, we brought home about fifteen children’s books, and I immersed myself in them whenever I felt scared. They were my safe place,” says Larson. With her early experience being absorbed in the artwork, she wanted more than anything to become an illustrator. Not being naturally talented, according to Larson, she created a small dragon of clay and named it Pompaour. The story nearly wrote itself, she said. From there, she knew what she had to do to produce the book, having worked as a graphic artist for twenty-five years, some of those years as an art director of teaching reproducibles. 


 


Peggy contracted and assigned art to people throughout the United States and Canada, designed covers, and did art direction (telling the artists what she wanted on each book page for the illustrator to create, doing some of the illustrating herself) for the insides of the books and worked on book covers for the books and magazines. Larson decided to give the pictures for Pompadour a try on her own and started with pencil and then used watercolors and finished with pen and ink in her illustrations. She found that she did have a talent in this area. Larson showed the book and illustrations—there were six of them—to a clerk at an office, and the clerk said she wanted four books by Christmas for her nieces, forcing Peggy to complete the book. She published her book through a local printer before going through AuthorHouse.


 


 “This is a major accomplishment coming from a person who thought she had no talent,” said Larson.


 


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