Hi, I’m Audrey Wood, author and illustrator of children’s books.
And I’m Don Wood. I have been her creative partner for about 35 years. I usually illustrate but occasionally I have co-written books with her.
Well, I grew up in an artistic family. I’m actually a fourth generation artist and I grew up in the studios of my grandfather and my father who are my master teachers and we had a lot of — I grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas. We had a lot of artists and writers and I was able to meet Charlie May Simon who was an author of children’s books, so that’s my background as far as artists go.
I didn’t have any choice. I just grew up naturally drawing. And how about you?
Well, I grew up in a non-artistic family. I was born and raised on a small farm in the Central Valley which is a part of California that none of you know anything about. It’s the part of California that is not really California. I don’t think there was a bookstore or an artist within 100 miles, but in the sixth grade I decided to my parent’s dismay to be an artist and I drew constantly. I drew on whatever I could find which turned out to be laundry paper spread out on the living room table.
