I’m celebrating as my new image e-book ‘Daddy and I’, illustrated gorgeously by Sophie Burrows, is out right this moment! It was a difficult one to jot down and to be sincere I wasn’t anticipating a sure from my publishers at Maverick… perhaps as a result of I’d simply spent so lengthy hammering away at it, making an attempt to get each verse to incorporate a distinct rhyme for the phrase ‘I’. Generally you simply want you’d by no means began one thing!
I’d been pondering for some time of writing one thing that labored on two ranges, the kid’s viewpoint and the grownup’s. What could be fairly an earthly expertise for us could be filled with surprise for a kid as a result of they see all the pieces with a contemporary eye. A stroll was the best means of expressing this, and I’ve bought beautiful recollections of going for super-long walks with my Dad (most likely fairly quick now I come to think about it) which we handled as an enormous journey. I assumed it will add a fuller background to the story to place it within the context of a Saturday go to the place the kid doesn’t essentially spend the remainder of the week together with her dad, so the time they've collectively is further particular. After I noticed Sophie’s sketches I knew she utterly understood what I used to be making an attempt to say!
I’m glad I lastly bought the prospect to jot down the concept that had been simmering for therefore lengthy. Generally it will possibly take a protracted whereas for a narrative to brew. At different instances it may be very fast. One of many mysteries of the writing course of!