Goodreads asked Maria Thermann:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Maria Thermann The Flippety Floppet, aimed at Early Readers aged 5-7, is what I'm currently working on with a brilliant young illustrator called Sarah Hammond. One day I thought how difficult it would be for a little alien arriving on Earth to understand complex human relationships - let's face it, humans don't really understand them either! So I started with that and somehow the story about a young blue creature from a blueberry blue planet called Azura wrote itself...to be published soon!

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