Today is Maya‘s official birth-day! Working on this book has been such a fantastic journey, from writing the story without knowing where it would go, to working with an illustrator who connected deeply with the story and infused it with her own beautiful vision. Speaking of Elly, to celebrate our release date, she wrote up a wonderful post about the making of Maya. It’s a very cool, very rare behind-the-scenes look at how a picture book gets illustrated.