Tony Piedra
The seed for my debut picture book, The Greatest Adventure, came from a meeting in New York I had with editor and publisher Arthur Levine of Arthur A. Levine Books back in February 2015. On that cold, winter day I presented Arthur a "sneak peek" of a story I had been developing. And although he didn’t care for the project I shared with him, he ended up asking me a very poignant question, “Why did you choose to write that story?” And in response I told Arthur about my childhood in Houston. I told him how my notion of adventure was shaped by stories my father told me about his childhood in the Bahamas. Stories filled with gliding manta rays and schools of flashing, silver fish, stories which made me long, even at that early age, to have a great adventure of my own. And this childhood sentiment, drawn out from me by the probing of a thoughtful editor became the seed for The Greatest Adventure.
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