Creative Process
Doris Burn’s archived illustrations and manuscripts document various different aspects of the creative process, including her pain-staking drafting and editing of materials, and the role of editors and publishers in shaping a final, printed work.
These next two images are reproduced from the unpublished manuscript for The Horrible Haircut - story and illustrations were inspired by an unfortunate haircut received by one of the Burn children! The manuscript contains hand-written annotations about the various sketched characters.
Have you ever had a haircut that wasn't quite right?Well!Hattie had a haircut that really WAS a fright!
Baby spilled his applesauceAnd tried to climb the chair. Cameron asked her helpfully, "Is it beyond repair?""Golly" murmered Marko, "Did you meet up with a bear?" "It's only" answered Hattie, "That ...."Hattie reveals on the next page that, "Daddy cut my hair".