It seems to me to be very different when I’m working with another author. It’s a different kind of challenge, because I’m sort of borrowing someone else’s imagination. And with the dinosaurs book, it is a very sparse text, and it doesn’t really explain who the dinosaurs are, or what’s going on in the scenes. But that’s fun, because that gave me a lot of room to play around.
And I just started messing around with it. My original idea was using all tyrannosaurus rex, because I just thought that was the greatest dinosaur. It was always my favorite dinosaur as a kid. I started playing around with that, and then I found that it was a lot more amusing to me that the parents were human, rather than just an entire dinosaur family. So, that was established pretty quick.
