Periodically Pleasing: A Talk with Helen Hancocks of SHELF

A couple months ago I was contacted by the VERY funny picture book creator Rachel Michelle Wilson (originator of the book How to Pee Your Pants: The Right Way, amongst others) about contributing to an article. It was for a piece called “Women Aren’t Funny, They’re Hilarious” and it would appear in the second issue of a magazine called SHELF. Naturally, I agreed. I’d never heard of SHELF, but if it had anything to do with children’s literature then I was interested.

It would only be later ...