Samantha Cotterill

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 186: Author and Illustrator Samantha Cotterill Discusses Her New Book Series, Little Senses · 2 Dec 2019 podcast

And an open pitch was created for the series.

And when it came down to a couple publishers that were really interested in the series, there was one in particular with Kate Harrison at Dial Books for Young Readers.

that just instantly she just reacted with such an emotional, like, yes, this is something we need.

We need to get more of these out there.

We really love what you're doing.

And there was just a reaction from her that I knew that this was the person that I needed to make these books with.

And they were just from, from day one, so supportive and encouraging and

allowing me the control of what was important to put in there and all the subtleties that in just kind of the mainstream children's book world, there were a lot of little details that maybe I couldn't have done otherwise.

But because of this series and of her trust in what I was doing, we were able to create something that I felt was just so special and beautiful.

Yeah.

And what it was great about Kate with working on these books is just really trusting in the way it was written, especially with like, I wanted to make sure that the dialogue from the caretaker was short and sweet and it had to be delivered in very short sentences and

and not too descriptive, just to keep in mind that a lot of kids can only take in so much auditory information before shutting off.

And even in the details such as the third book that'll be coming out soon in Can I Play Too?

I purposely put some tiny detail changes simply for the fact that if you're in the office and

going for maybe a diagnosis and you have the child looking at the book, certain children may open the book and go, oh, there's a stripe on the sweater on this page, but it wasn't on an earlier page.

And in the rest of the picture books that I've done, you're scrutinizing and going through every page to make sure that every single detail is consistent.

And I was so excited that Kate allowed me to purposefully

make subtle detail changes that could come across as errors to other people.

But for me, I felt like it was an important little detail to include.

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