Does having children make a difference in being a childrens book author?
In high school, I wrote a lot — essays, poems to my friends and families, more adult kinds of things, about the war and love and sorrow and that kind of thing. In college, I took a creative writing course, anything to do with the word. But it was more adult. I wasn’t writing for children at all because I don’t think at that age you really think like that. Not too many people when they’re in college or high school think about pleasing children or writing whimsical children’s type things. What happened is when I had children of my own, I was reading a lot of children’s fairy tales and poetry picture books to them. I spent so much time doing that, I found l loved them as much as I loved reading to my children. It actually made me feel happy and made me feel more childlike. My writing started to evolve that way. I started writing more of the kinds of things I was reading to my children. How did you find the time to write when the kids still were at home? A lot of people say I would write
