![]() I’d emphasize their identical appearance until the punchline of a haircut mishap! Funny! Chuckles! Lots of laughs! And since all writing is a kind of wish fulfillment (which is a blog post for another day) I made Ling, Ting and Ming Asian-American like me.Īnd I thought I had a good story idea for these characters, too. In my youth, I had loved the Flicka, Ricka and Dicka picture books-so much so that I have always harbored a not-so-secret wish that I, myself, was a triplet. And I realized every single one of my books has begun as a picture book idea.įor example, my first Ling and Ting early reader, was once a picture book dummy originally titled Ling, Ting and Ming (sorry, Ming, you got axed). And when I thought about it, I realized that PiBoIdMo is about picture book ideas. However, in the last five years, I have published two novels and three early readers ( with a fourth coming out TODAY!). One might wonder that about my picture book career. ![]() My last picture book was published over five years ago, around the time we were all trying to figure out if the report of the death of the picture book was greatly exaggerated. ![]() I laughed a little when Tara asked me if I’d like to guest blog for PiBoIdMo. ![]()
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