The Christmas Tree Catastrophe was inspired by real life! 😻🎄 ➡️ Please scroll through the slideshow below, to discover how Matt Shanks and I weaved cats, mice, baubles, gingerbread men, trees, physics and FUN into a joyous Christmas Eve tale, that we hope will be cherished by children and their families for many years to come!
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📚😻🎄 Enjoy this sneak peek into our picture book creation process of: Where the idea came from. How author and illustrator work together. How the characters and story evolved. How many covers are drawn before one is selected. How long it takes from initial idea to seeing a picture book in print. And, how endpapers can uniquely tell a story!