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The inspiration for a book does not always come in the same way. What sets off the story can be an idea, a character or a place. Sometimes it is only a smell, a colour or a soft sensation, like touching fur, for example.
Ginette Anfousse, author of the book School, drew all the time -- while talking on the telephone, daydreaming, cooking, even while writing letters, scribbling in the margins.... She liked drawing so much that she took several courses in painting and drawing.
In the beginning, she didn't know that her drawings would become part of a book. She drew just for fun. She drew one character, then another, then she drew the two of them together. She looked at the drawing of the little girl that she had just finished, a laughing little rascal who looked about five years old. It was the spitting image of Marisol, her own daughter.
In any case, it looked very much like her!
Ginette Anfousse had dressed her character in the same way that Marisol dressed when she was playing -- with a large red hat and a pretty dress! You must have guessed which character that is!
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