My husband Ted went to Pratt [Institute], too. He had already graduated when I met him. It’s funny, because my roommate and his roommate were best friends, and my roommate kept telling me, “You’ve got to meet my boyfriend’s roommate. You’ve just got to meet him. You guys are soul mates. You’ll love each other. You’ve got the same sense of humor. You both love animals.” And we just never somehow got together, until the end of my sophomore year. He showed me a picture of his pet lion cub, and that did it. We realized that we were both interested in travel, and we wanted to go to Africa to see the great herds before they dwindled. And we laughed together. We just had so much in common. And I admired him so, because he draws in a very naturalistic, realistic way, which I don’t. I envied that. I really did.
But he also is a Caldecott Honor winner, by the way, for a book called Peppy, the Lamplighter.
