Where do the ideas for your books come from? Your new books, Water Sings Blue and Hans My Hedgehog, are quite different. Then too, I think a big part of me is still a kid! I try to stick with the term child-like instead of childish. But even while I was in college, I used to study in the children’s book section of the library. I’ve read some books for grown-ups, including the classics as an English major. I eventually realized that a novel was like a set of short stories called chapters. At about 23, I started writing short stories, original fairy tales. But I have to say, poetry is my first love-all I really wrote through my teens and into my twenties was poetry. I have dabbled in illustration on and off, as well-that was my major when I began college. I wrote plays and poems and stories while in grade school and never stopped. I was the proverbial bookworm as a child, and at some point early on I knew that I wanted to make books, too. Below is a complete transcript of her interview with Cracking the Cover. Her latest book, “Water Sings Blue,” hit bookstores March 14. Kate Coombs is a picture book and middle-grade author.
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