A speaker (Chrissy Myers) explains her long-standing desire to write children’s books that fill a perceived gap in the market: many picture books end without follow-up or intentional educational content. She uses a planned story about catching fireflies as an example, noting concern for fireflies (described as endangered) and a desire to maintain creative control to produce sequels and continuity for learning.
I had had this idea in my head to write these children's book stories for years, because reading hundreds of books to my children, I realized there's a big gap in children's literature. It's either like, Ann Apple. Ran. Ann Ray. Ann Ray. And it's these stories that, you know, once it's done, there's. There's nothing to follow up with it. There's no extra education. There's no. Nothing that's intentional for learning purposes. And so, for me, I wanted to write a story about catching fire fireflies. But fireflies are an endangered species, and they only were interested in the one book. And so I wasn't willing to give up my authority on the first book to sacrifice the second and the third that I have in my head. So it can be exactly what I want it to be.
