While doing research for my book Nature's Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forests, I traveled to two islands where there are tropical rain forests, Saba and Dominica. I also get to travel and meet lots of interesting people. I get to ask lots of questions, just like when I was a kid.
This is because I love researching so much. The type of books I write are non-fiction books. Since then, over 170 books that I have written and illustrated have been published. That book was called Willy and His Wheel Wagon. So I put an idea for a book together and right away a publisher bought it. My mind immediately recalled how much I enjoyed doing that type of thing when I was a child. While doing that show, some of the children asked me if I had ever thought of doing children's books. Eventually I was asked to do the artwork for a children's show. Then I moved to New York City, where I got a job doing artwork for television shows. Later, I went on to the University of Illinois, where I studied graphic design. My parents tell me that I was always asking lots and lots of questions. Sometimes I would bind them with yarn to hold the pages together. Even as a little child, I was always busy putting books together. From : I was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1944.
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