The cost of skipping bedtime stories isn’t dramatic. It doesn’t show up in a single missed night, or even a dozen. It accumulates slowly, in the vocabulary not yet built, the connection not quite made, the imagination not quite stretched, the trust not fully deepened.
Everyone tells you writing a children’s picture book will be magical. What they don’t tell you is that it will also be utterly humbling, occasionally maddening, and responsible for more cups of cold coffee than you care to count.
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