When playing with the idea of a children’s book about building, I moved to California. In downtown Oakland I found construction sites full of hammering and scaffolding. I spent a month sketching there. I think the workers wondered what I was doing. I also worked a few days at a Habitat for Humanity site to get a better feel for construction. It was exhausting. I drilled holes for electrical fixtures and I’m worried I did it all wrong. I love the progression of building. How it starts with an idea and a plot of land, then months of sawdust and sweat later, something is standing. This book is about that process.
