My grandfather taught through storytelling. Pat began writing at an early age. One of her fondest memories is her third grade teacher hanging a poem she wrote on the bulletin board. I was just absolutely taken by the whole idea of writing, and I wrote on everything. I loved having control of the words and being able to write my own stories.
Writing is hard work but rewarding.
I am a sponge soaking up everything about me. In the early 1980's Pat and her husband, Fredrick, were both at turning points in their lives. Pat left teaching and was working for a publishing house as a children's book editor. She remembers Fred asking if she could do anything she wanted for the rest of her life, what that would be. Since then Pat and Fredrick have written more than fifty books together.