Doreen Cronin

After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change. ”

The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing! ”

I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.' ”

I'd always been around kids, and when you don't have kids, you have a lot more time to do things. Before I had kids, I was a lot more prolific and wrote books a lot faster. ”

I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write. ”

Sadly, I haven't been able to find my earliest stories, but the impact of being told by someone important to me that I could do something special is immeasurable. ”

I was an editor for supplemental math, science, and literature programs for the primary grades and became very well versed in elementary curriculum, particularly PreK-2. ”

I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do. ”

I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I was always around kids. I was like the family babysitter because I was the only one that wasn't married. ”

I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad! ”