Frederick: One of the good things about Flossie and the Fox was that it kept us going early in the book sort of business. But it was very rough those days, you know…not much money, a lot of time going out, but not much money coming in. But Time magazine said of Flossie and the Fox…it was a story they’d never heard before.
And in a sense, it encouraged us and it also won an award in London, the Booktrust, and the award was simply to sit in the library for a year… and that was it. But we don’t think we’ve ever produced a better book.
Patricia: No, Flossie and the Fox is one of my favorite books that I’ve written. Now that’s like really asking, “Which one of my kids I love the most,” when people ask, “What is your favorite book?” I’ve got three sons, four grandsons, so I’m very careful about saying which one is favorite. I don’t have a favorite. I love them all equally.
And our books are pretty much like that, too. They were all out of me…a part of me…a part of us…a part of our labors…so you have an affection for all of them. But Flossie…she was my first daughter. We always say I had my sons and I also created my daughters.
