My mum tells me that I was very reluctant to learn to read, which she couldn’t understand because she knew how much I loved books. It turned out that I thought no-one would read to me, if I could read on my own! Once that misunderstanding was cleared up, though, there was no stopping me.
I remember always heading straight for the Dr. Seuss section in the library as a child, and Andrew (my husband) and I have very fond memories of our daughters, Jemima and Maddie, shouting out the final words of rhyming couplets in books like ‘There’s a Wocket in my Pocket’ and ‘The Gruffalo’. We were – and are – very big fans of Dr. Seuss and Julia Donaldson in our house, which probably explains why I like to write in rhyme most of the time.
