![]() ![]() After marriage and a baby, she discovered the language in Piggie Pie tickled her three-year old son. Instead, her early published work focused on middle-grade readers. “I didn’t write picture books for 18 years.” Unfortunately, editors told her the story wasn’t funny and it wasn’t for kids and she shouldn’t be writing picture books. She created her funny and popular Gritch the Witch character, based on her self-described irascible, emotional, impatient self, and Piggie Pie (Clarion, 1995) was born. “There was more story I needed to tell.” She enrolled in a writing workshop at Rutgers University where her instructors told her to write what she knew. “I was not completely fulfilled doing ads,” she recalls. ![]() “Creativity has to have a soul,” says Palatini, and role-playing gave her the foundation she needed to develop plot and character-essential story elements.Īfter college, Palatini worked as an art director for an advertising agency. Looking back on it now, she realizes her books and plays were part of her creative process. ![]() ![]() “I could draw,” she says, “and I communicated my stories through pictures, or I made plays and acted them out.” Because Palatini never actually wrote out the words to her stories, she didn’t consider herself a writer. She remembers, “That was the year I had a teacher who told me I was talented and who nurtured my talent.” As a kid, Palatini made books and produced plays. Third grade was a special year for Margie Palatini. ![]()
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