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When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that.

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If I rewind back to that period, I was 8 in 1977 when 'Star Wars' was in theaters. I saved up money, or my parents got me the 'Art of Star Wars' book.

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In 2008, my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Sophia, suffered a grand mal seizure. It came from nowhere, for no apparent reason, and took hold of my little fairy-girl.

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I must confess that although I am quite passionate about the books I create for children, I am not the best oral storyteller. In fact, I stink at it.

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Now, as Global Ambassador for Starlight Children's Foundation, which brightens the lives of poorly children, I visit hospitals and tell stories to the young patients. Sometimes I read. Sometimes I draw.

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I can't remember a time when I wasn't inspired by 'Star Wars.'

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In some ways, you kind of take a personality and drop it on the ground, and it breaks into a bunch of little pieces, and you kind of water those pieces, and it grows into characters. So they're all me in a way.

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When you're in elementary school, you get these amazing assignments, like to come up with your own animal, come up with your own city, come up with your own planet, what do the people look like; you're very much encouraged to be as imaginative as possible.

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Balancing an illustrator and author can be tricky, but I was an illustrator mostly before I wrote my books.

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I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: September 6th, 1969

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