Phoebe’s First Blog-Why I Write Storybooks for Children and Families

I write children’s storybooks because some of the most important moments in a child’s life happen quietly.

They happen when a parent settles beside a child at bedtime. They happen when a grandparent opens a favorite book for the third time in one afternoon. They happen when a child points to a picture, laughs at a character, asks a question, or insists that one more page must be read before the story can possibly end.

Those moments may seem small, but they matter.

My degree in early childhood development taught me that young children learn through relationships, repetition, play, language, and emotional connection. Long before children can read for themselves, they are listening to the rhythm of words, studying expressions, noticing colors, recognizing patterns, and learning how stories work.

They are also learning something even more important: that reading is a time when someone they love slows down and gives them full attention.

That is one of the main reasons I write.