MY WORKING MOM

MY WORKING MOM

I have known the author of this book, Peter Glassman, for years. Before I became a writer, I would visit his fine bookstore, Books of Wonder, in New York City and purchase children's books for my collection. After I became a published author, I had many occasions to autograph books at his store. On one of those visits Peter said he was working on a story of his own and asked if I would consider illustrating it. I took one look at his manuscript and happily said yes. The reason for my excitement was simple. This is a genuine picture book. Let me explain. In its purest form, a picture book is one where the words by themselves do not tell the whole story. The story happens only when the pictures are combined with the words. (Most children's books that are called picture books are in truth merely illustrated story books.) Peter gave me only one order before I created the art. He said, "Make the mom a witch" because in the words of the story he never named the mom's job. All the rest of the scenes were left up to me. Because the words only said "weird dinners" I could draw any kind of weird dinner. When the kids were putting on a school play it could be any play I wanted it to be. I decided to draw them performing The Wizard of Oz because Peter's hobby is collecting Oz books and toys. I had a lot of fun with this book. Artists love to work on real picture books because they get to help the author create the story.

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