![]() ![]() On our honeymoon, I read my new husband Don Wood the classic children's book entitled At the Back of the North Wind. Since I am also a professional artist, there are four consecutive generations of artists in our family. My great-grandfather, grandfather, and father were all professional artists. I got in trouble in school once for crossing out my favorite author's name and putting in mine-Audrey Brewer instead of Dr. As an adult who writes and illustrates children's books, I have realized both my childhood ambitions. Then, in the fourth grade, I decided I'd like to be a children's book author. When I was in the first grade, I wanted to grow up to be an artist like my father. Admission for the plays we produced was a bargain-twenty-five cents. We had a miniature stage in our basement, complete with light-bulb floodlights and a dusty red velvet curtain. All of us were trained in the arts: music, dance, painting, and drama. My parents had two more girls, which made me the oldest sister. Because my mother read to me every day, I fell in love with books and was reading by age three. When I was two, I traveled with my parents to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where they studied art. Everyone in the circus thought I was going to be a trapeze artist. I walked at seven months and climbed over a seven foot chain link fence when I was one year old. My father taught me to swim before I could walk. My mother says I was a fast learner, always ahead of my age. They tAudrey2old me stories about the animals they worked with: Chi Chi the Chimpanzee, an elephant named Elder, and Gargantua the Gorilla. My first baby-sitters were a family of little people who lived in a trailer next to ours. I was bounced on the knee of the tallest man in the world and rocked in the arms of the fat lady who could not stand up. The people in the circus were my friends. ![]() My father, an art student, was making extra income by repainting circus murals. I was one year old and remember it vividly. ![]() My first memories are of Sarasota, Florida in the winter quarters of the Ringling Brothers' Circus. AUDREY WOOD is the much-loved author of more than thirty books for children, including the bestselling The Napping House, Piggies, Heckedy Peg, and most recently, Piggy Pie Po, which she collaborated on with her husband, Don Wood. ![]()
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