She got married and two years later her career was placed on hold when the home pregnancy test showed a faint pink line. After having her son, she realized that her career wasn't on hold it had just switched gears. She discovered she loved being a mom more than anything and chose to be one full time.
Lisa is an avid reader and a staunch advocate of reading to children from birth. She began writing and illustrating toddler books after it became apparent that most of them were not written by people who actually read to toddlers. It was frustrating to not finish a page before her two year old wanted to turn it. She felt he was missing out an important part of reading by not hearing the whole story that accompanied the pictures. One day, while complaining to her husband about how they virtually put a paragraph on one page and there wasn't any toddler that would sit that long staring at one image, he suggested that she should write and illustrate her own stories. It was like a light bulb had gone off over her head.
So using Alex, her toddler, as a test audience she wrote her first toddler story, "At the Zoo." Alex loves the brightly colored images and the one sentence per page. He also "reads" the book on his own by looking at the pictures and remembering what the sentence was. This encourages early reading for toddlers because they can memorize the lines while the reader points out the words as both read along out loud.
