Ever since Judith and Stephanie met in 1980, they have been great friends and extremely successful co-authors of children's books. They both live in Southern California, but they travel all over to give lectures and presentations about the work that they do, and to share tips with other would-be children's book authors.
Ideas seem to tumble out of every corner.
They sometimes seem to bombard us. We carry small notebooks and jot them down. Ideas come from a word, a sign, something in the newspaper, a magazine article, a television documentary, from children in a classroom, a shared joke, recalling an experience from our lives or from those of our children. Judith and Stephanie love being writers almost as much as they love working together and having fun together. They find that, just like the residents of Calabash Street, they can each bring their own individual contributions to their work, but they always end up with a big, yummy, diverse, mish-mash of tasty ideas that is more than the sum of its parts.