Shared Rituals and Easter Sugar Lambs: A Dual Interview About My Baba’s Garden Dual with Jordan Scott and Sydney Smith

Recently I was speaking to a group of students at the Butler Children’s Literature Center at Dominican University about the upcoming Bologna Children’s Books Fair. We’ll all be traveling there and I was giving them some advice upon arrival.

“Oh! And do not miss the panel of judges discussing how they came to decide on this year’s winners of the Illustrators Exhibition. Sydney Smith from Canada is one of them!”

At this point the entire conversation turned into a recounting of Mr. Smith’s ...