Author Visitor

I've done a number of author visits to elementary schools to talk about my picture books. One little girl wanted to know how I could write so small. (She thought I hand-printed each book!)

A teacher asked her students whether the author wrote the story or drew the pictures. As one, her class piped up, "Draws the pictures!" She told me that she went over this every day, too!

But my favorite moment was when a special needs student with a speech difficulty was trying to ask me a question. He had to repeat it three times (his teacher couldn't figure it out) before I got it: "What does a bear say?" (As in, a cow says moo, etc.) Very good question!