The Boston Globe, March 29th, 2007
GLOBE WEST 1 / ARTS When Giselle Potter was just 7, her parents whisked her off to Italy, piled the whole family into a wooden carnival truck, and spent a year performing across the country as a street theater troupe. The trip gave Potter plenty to write about in her diary, which is a good thing. Years later, that journal inspired Potter's children's book, "The Year I Didn't Go to School." "It's a beautiful, sweet, sweet book. And the resemblance is really stunning between what she wrote and drew when she was 7 and the imagery and the story she created as an adult," said Ceci Mendez, exhibitio...
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