

My mom didn’t believe in coloring books but would give me blank books that I could fill out myself.ĬW: Everyone knows your amazing book Beautiful Oops. I took for granted growing up in a house full of books. My parents read a lot and there were always books in the house. At the end of the evening they would let me choose a book to take home.

They would leave me in the children’s section and there was something about the smell of the books and the feel of the paper that made me feel like I would fall into a different world every time I opened a book. I grew up in Los Angeles and in Hollywood there was a bookstore my parents would take me to on Friday nights. She was a reading and study skills counselor at UCLA. We are so excited to have gotten the chance to hear from acclaimed children’s author, Barney Saltzberg, on the creative process behind his latest book, A Little Bit of OomphĬW: How did you become interested in books and literature?īarney: My mom was an educator.
