In 2014, Yuyi contributed a visual essay on the creative process behind her book, Viva Frida to the children’s book blog, Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast. Yuyi’s creative process behind Viva Frida was a radical from her previous books, which were illustrated mostly in acrylic. Readers of this blog got to see how Viva Frida came to life over several years; Yuyi built her own puppets and sets for the book, hand-knit clothes and built jewelry for puppets, drew and painted elements that were scanned and digitized, and stitched together panoramas of photos to create the soaring perspectives in this book.
