I was so jealous that I didn't have the opportunity to be the illustrator," says Frazee. "Then when I saw this text, I jumped at it." When they started working on The Great Zapfino, Frazee and ...

Mac Barnett and illustrator Marla Frazee talk about their children's book "The Great Zapfino." That's Mac Barnett reading one of the very few lines from his children's book, "The Great Zapfino." ...

The Great Zapfino is a circus performer whose act ... and how the ex-acrobat might eventually gain some stability. Barnett left illustrator Marla Frazee to fill in the details.

MCCAMMON: Seventy-three words in total, and nine of them are Zapfino. So how does someone illustrate a book like this? Mac Barnett and illustrator Marla Frazee discuss just that for our series ...