It is our hope that parents and teachers will also gain insights as they read the books to children, and more importantly when they read the extensive end notes.Ĥ. This book (along with Living Sunlight) is our way of distilling these ideas and making them accessible to everyone. There are fundamental scientific truths about how our planet works that most people, even college graduates, do not understand. MB and PC: Extremely difficult! But also very satisfying. Was it difficult to distill this information for children? Penny, you usually teach college and graduate students. The good news is that we almost always agreed on what changes were needed.ģ. Penny found wonderful examples of the ocean plants and critters for Molly to paint, and Molly often painted the same picture several times before we were both satisfied. Molly wrote a first draft, then Penny edited to make it more scientifically accurate. Once we had a rough idea of the concepts and the general narrative, Molly made thumbnail sketches that we reworked until we were fairly sure about how the story would “move.” Then we started writing. MB and PC: The typical approach to collaborative children’s books is that there is an author and an illustrator and the two do not communicate until the book is finished.
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