‘First: yes, in the beginning is the word. Sam attributes the success of Guess How Much I Love You to four things that came together in the creation of the book. But that’s another story, a different story. And Caroline was right, it wasn’t easy – it was a new experience over six months to have every word fighting for its existence in the finished text. I took up the challenge and the result was Guess How Much I Love You, published in 1994. What she was saying was what I later came to believe: it’s as difficult to write a fine picture book, one that stands out from the crowd, as it is to write a fine novel. It looks as though it should be easy, Sam, but it’s not easy.” What we don’t have are people who can write a powerful story using hardly any words at all. “Sam,” said Caroline, “we have illustrators who can render in exquisite detail whatever your imagination can dream up. I said, “You mean, you want me to send you. “Wouldn’t I have to work with an illustrator? You know, match text with drawing sort of thing.” I said, “Do I not need to know an illustrator, Caroline?” One day, my editor at Walker Books in London said, “Why don’t you write a picture book, Sam?” The seed for Guess How Much I Love You was planted during a conversation between Sam M cBratney and his editor Caroline Royds, at Walker Books.
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