Was writing childrens books a longheld fantasy?
“No. I don’t fantasize. I’m not a dreamer, really. I’m much more of a realist. Always have been, since I was little.” Q: Why write about adoption since you consider it so personal? “The story hadn’t been told in a humorous and celebratory way. It really was born out of many people’s misunderstanding of my daughter’s life and how we became a family. I respect Annies privacy and felt odd writing a book about adoption and obviously basing it on the experience of our family, but at the same time keeping our family history very private. It was a complicated balancing act. “It’s a book which is really written to open peoples’ eyes and ears and hearts and minds to something that most people still talk about in hushed voices. I am tremendously proud of my books. They are the closest thing to who I am as a human being. It is my sensibility. It is how I look at the world.” Q: Why do you so hate the word adopted’ preceding daughter? “I think it’s a label, a way of separating a child from its fami
