Reading stamps a child’s passport to humanity and offers her/him tickets to wherever s/he wants to go. I am a passionate believer in the power of books to change lives. When I wrote my first novel for adults, I decided to separate it from my work for children by using my maiden name.īeyond writing, you have been and continue to be involved in outreach work involving literature. Why? But for 22 years, including the time when I started writing for children, my married name was Pennypacker. I was born Sara Young, and I’m that again now. Why is this? Is one a maiden name? A pen name?īoth the names are real. The Library of Congress has your work listed under two names: Sara Young and Sara Pennypacker. My editor later told me it initially caught her attention because I was such a compulsive copy editor-she’d never seen such a clean manuscript.
Luckily, I didn’t know how difficult it was to break into the field-I charged in with all my heart and energy, and assumed I’d get published.Īmazingly enough, I simply submitted a novel to a couple of publishers. When I had my two children, I discovered how amazing children’s fiction had become and I was absolutely smitten: I HAD to learn to write for children! It was a very deep, very sure, conviction: I was meant to write for children. I tended toward semi-abstract naturalism-I certainly wasn’t an illustrator at all. I wrote the Dullards as kind of a cautionary tale for grown-ups! Sometimes I think we can get so wrapped up in safety or maintaining norms that we forget how exciting and fun this world can be.
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