From the Archives: How do touch and playful interaction influence the early development of children? In August we talked with Karyn Purvis, Director of the TCU Institute of Child Development, which has just released a series of DVDs covering these subjects. Artist Esther Pearl Watson joined us for the ArtandSeek segment to discuss how she turned a found teenager’s diary into a hilarious and touching graphic novel called “Unlovable” (Fantagraphics Books, 2008).
