John does not want to read my picture books but is inflicted with them none the less. Although he doesn’t CHOOSE to read my kid’s books he never seems to get tired of the language in them or the plots. In fact between the proof readings pressed on him he repeats his favorite sections back to me laughing. All I can say is, “Touché: I’ve learned this attitude of inflection from him because many of our conversations have been exactly like this; “John do you think they’ll like empty holsters as Easter baskets?” He doesn’t hear me because he’s busy putting seven more in our shopping basket so I say, “John I don’t think they’ll want them or will like them!” He finally hears me and says, “OOh, yes they will. They’ll like them. They just don’t know it yet.”
Amy, my computer expert, proof reader, editor, and woman who entertains me be sometimes dressing like a Steinway, says she would never CHOOSE to read picture books either. But she rereads mine. And is not getting tired of them and is still laughing.
I therefore feel successful; my intentions have always been to write books for adults to read aloud near the end of a hectic day when they’d much rather do something else. My goal has been to alleviate the readers’ need to:                                                                      1 LIE!! (“Oh, I’m sorry a sea monster rose up out of the toilet today, when you were in school, and ate your book. Oh, too bad for us!”)

2 throw themselves on the floor (“NOOO! NOOOO! Not that book again!”)

I want the reader to not only LIVE through the reading experience, but TOTALLY ENJOY some new facet of the book EACH time it’s read. I declare REREADING is now an asset not a dread! (By the way they DID like Easter holsters!)  nancymauerman.com