Bob Odenkirk and daughter Erin Odenkirk on Zilot & Other Important Rhymes, and creating the illustrations to accompany their family poems.
The Big Picture The children’s book Zilot & Other Important Rhymes is a family affair, with actor Bob Odenkirk having started writing poems with his children when they were little and compiling them into their own homemade binding. Almost twenty years later, pandemic quarantine led to revisiting this work, coming up with some new ideas, and a now adult Erin Odenkirk creating illustrations to bring these characters to life on the page.
Bob, when you originally wrote these poems together, did you ever think they were going to get published someday? Was that something you’d thought about at all, or were you just having fun and were proud of your kids? Erin, did you grow up in a home that was just always very creative and that encouraged imagination? Is it something that always felt like it was present in your life?
BOB: The original piece was called Old Time Rhymes. There’s a picture in the book of the little notebook I made and I wrote, “Old Time Rhymes by Dad and Nate and Erin.” I would put our poems in that book and hopefully make them laugh with the idea that I was calling it old, like it had been around, when they knew it was just written that night. But what we saw was that a lot of the poems were about words, about not being afraid of words, and about writing your own stuff.
BOB: Yeah. I love showbiz memoirs. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to write mine. I’ve had a variety of experiences because of a great deal of luck, and I wanted to share that energy and excitement with people. This is quite different. This is very personal. From my point of view, this is about sharing with your kids, in a gentle way, some of the things you think are important about living life and approaching life.
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