An important question for creative people of all ages. It's also the title of my most recent book!

One of my favorite things to work on is educational books. Last year, I worked with Scholastic Books and illustrator Mike Byrne on a book for preschoolers, promoting pretend play and imagination. We decided to center it around the blanket/furniture forts that kids love to create. My kids had a blast making their own forts, ships, and more as I was working on the initial draft. One of their ideas (a cardboard drawbridge held up by string) was so amazing that I snapped a photo and sent it to the illustrator for background material. The final book is beautiful and fun.

Last week, I discovered the book is in the running for One Book 4 Colorado, an organization that chooses a single book and donates 75,000 copies of it, giving one to every 4 year old in the state. The other two books in the contest are wonderful and I am honored to have a book I wrote alongside works by these phenomenal writers and illustrators!

You can even see my book read aloud by Colorado Lieutenant Governor Donna Lynne! 

Check back on April 17^th to find out which book wins!