Title Author ISBN Imprint Series Format How did it feel, as an author, to watch Chris Raschka interpreting your text through his paintings? Thrilling! Chris has an amazing brain and is a brilliant artist. I loved watching the development from preliminary sketches to color blotches to final drawings. With each stage, I'd be leaping out of my chair, uttering ineloquent things like "Wow!" and "How does he DO that?!" What is most fascinating to me about Chris's accomplishment is that he has visually rendered, beautifully and skillfully, the abstract 'action' of the imagination. Wow! What was it that caught your imagination about Sharon Creech's text for Fishing in the Air? It's a very lyrical writing style. It's evocative of dreamy images, certainly magical. And I almost didn't want to illustrate the magical parts of it; I wanted to let that magic, the thing that happens when you read or hear a story, work on its own. And since there are those magical ideas in the text, I almost didn't want to illustrate that--where trees become soldiers and clouds become angels. I love that fanciful, soft, dreamy writing. And it was lovely to be asked to do something like that.