She said it needed a lot of work, and she was right. I wrote down the bedtime story and did some drawings, and I took it to Little Brown publishers in Boston, and my first editor, Emily MacLeod, read it. And I remember my great grandmother and grandmother telling us stories when we were kids and how much fun that was. And so that’s kind of where the story began, and it was a story about Arthur’s nose.Īnd you know, I realized after I finished the story and tucked him in that I really had fun doing that. And then he asked me for a little drawing of Arthur, and when I was drawing it, I realized Aardvarks had big noses. And so, we started there, and then he wanted to know his name. And I started searching in the pantheon of children’s literature for an unused animal, and aardvark kind of popped up. So together, we looked for an animal to tell this story about.
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