With the illustrators, it started off with Fritz Siebel and when you see — well, I know in the 50th anniversary edition, there’s that priceless little pen and ink drawing and you see her just captured in just a few lines and all of a sudden, boom, and she’s just right there. She’s just there. And it all sort of flows from that. I mean and going forward sometimes her bonnet gets really big and sometimes it shrinks down and she’s gotten younger.
But I think the essence of Amelia Bedelia still comes through from that original drawing as someone who is just the way she looks. She’s innocent. She’s optimistic. She just is just, you know, she just sort of takes the world at face value.
