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A
Hi
I'm
Jerry
hi
do
you
services
manager
at
your
Ames,
Public
Library?
This
is
a
special
edition
of
well
read
and
I
have
a
very,
very
special
guest
with
me
today
and
Ames
native
Iowa
State
graduate
and
a
very
famous
author
illustrator,
so
Derek
Anderson
welcome.
Welcome!
Welcome
to
back
to
Ames
Thank.
A
B
I
love
to
show
this
to
kids,
because
it
just
shows
them
that
my
artwork
didn't
always
look
the
way
it
does
now
and
when
I
finished
this
I
was
so
proud
of
it.
I
had
to
give
it
to
the
most
important
person.
I
could
think
of
so.
I
took
this
down
to
the
principal's
office
and
I
gave
it
to
mr.
burr
how
and
his
name
was
Tom
burr.
How
and
mr.
B
burr
how
took
this
picture
and
he
hung
it
on
his
office
wall
for
the
rest
of
the
school
year
and
that's
when
I
knew
I
was
going
to
be
an
artist
and
it
wasn't
until
I
got
to
2nd
grade.
I
had
a
teacher
named
mrs.
block
and
she
gave
our
class
an
assignment
where
we
had
to
draw
our
own
boats
and
I
decided
I
wanted
to
be
different.
I
made
mine
pirate
ship,
and
then
we
had
to
write
stories
about
our
bonds
and
I
can
still
remember
how
incredible
it
felt
that
was.
B
A
B
So
many
great
teachers
along
the
way-
and
it's
it's
it's
hard
to
to
say
who
influenced
what?
Because
there
were
so
many
one
of
my
favorite
classes
at
Iowa.
State
was
this
visual
studies
class
and
it
was
taught
by
a
man
named
Dennis
dake,
who
he's
here
in
Ames,
he's
retired
from
Iowa
State
now,
but
he
was
amazing,
like
he
really
opened
my
eyes
to
a
lot
of
creativity
and
and
that's
what
that
class
was.
B
Silly
like
he
would
come
in
and
do
do
talks
do
his
lectures
in
rhyme
or
you
know,
being
dressed.
Head-To-Toe
in
white
and
I
will
never
forget
the
day
that
he
walked
into
our
class
and
he
walks
in
and
the
doors
fly
open.
He
was
a
little
bit
late
and
we're
all
kind
of
looking
at
our
watches
going.
You
know.
What's
going
on
and
even
the
teacher's
assistants
we're
standing
up
front
and
they
just
they.
You
know
they
looked
at
him
there.
B
B
A
Failures
do
help
us
along
the
way
and
and
I
know
you.
You've
had
some
failures,
because
every
author
in
illustrator
has
rejection.
What
are
those
stories
of
the
rejection,
letters
and
that
type
of
thing?
But
how
did
you
get
little
quack?
Because
that's
where
what
we're
doing
too
is
we
were
celebrating
our
little
quack
15th
birthday,
15.
B
15
years
yeah-
and
this
was
my
first
really
my
first
picture
book
and
little
quack-
it
came
about
in
an
odd
way,
like
I-
was
sending
work
off
to
publishers
for
years.
Getting
rejection,
letters
that
everyone
talks
about
and
I
just
didn't
seem
to
be
getting
any
closer
to
getting
published.
I
would
send
off
my
work
and
every
time
that
I
would
get
a
letter
back,
I
mean
they
were
ruining
my
day
my
week
by
month,
and
so
it
wasn't
until
I
kind
of
changed.
B
My
mindset
about
the
whole
thing,
and
instead
of
looking
at
this
and
taking
it
all
so
seriously,
I
turned
it
into
a
game
and
I
decided.
I
was
going
to
collect
rejection
letters
and
it
changed
everything
for
me
because
once
I
realized
that
I'm
just
gonna
add
make
this
collection
the
biggest
that
can
possibly
make
it
and
maybe
I'll,
get
published
along
the
way.
But
I
wasn't
going
to
give
up.
B
B
B
Idea
for
GLaDOS
and
the
both
the
kind
of
the
initial
pictures
that
I
did
the
character
designs
in
the
story
were
written
before
I
got
little
quack,
but
you
also
have
to
kind
of
show
a
publisher
that
you
know
that
you
can.
You
can
do
both
you
can
write
and
illustrate,
and
so
my
first
few
books
were
just
illustrating
another
authors
text,
and
this
was
Lauren
Thompson
and
before
this
I
did
Ready
Set
Raymond
by
Vonda
Michelle
Nelson,
and
that
was
an
early
reader.
B
Lauren
Thompson,
but
after
I
think
all
the
books
were
finished.
All
the
little
quack
books
were
finished
and
she
happened
to
be
coming
to
Minneapolis
on
a
book
tour
for
another
book,
and
so
our
publicist
at
Simon
and
Schuster
got
in
touch
and
said.
Lauren
would
really
like
to
meet
you,
and
so
they
set
up
a
dinner
for
us
and
it
was
crazy
because
here
we've
created
these
characters,
but
we
never
met.
We
don't
talk
to
each
other.
As
you
said,
you
know
we
usually
work
through
a
publisher
and
really
what
they
want.
A
B
B
A
So
tell
us
about
little
crack,
because
when
I
look,
when
I
look
at
little
crack
and
then
we've
been
reading,
little
cracks
new
friend
in
story
time
this
week
and
it
was
of
a
fabulous
story
of
people
that
are
different
becoming
friends
or
acceptance,
and
little
quack
is
you
know,
is
so
accepting
of
others
and
I
thought.
It
was
very
pertinent
for
today's
world,
as
it
was
back
and
then
about
accepting
people,
people's
differences
and
your
differences
and
that
so
how
did
you
like
form
little
quacks
character?
B
Really,
like
I,
begin
every
book
almost
the
same
way
where
I
have
to
look
at
pictures
of
the
real
animals
and
eventually
what
you
do.
Is
you
kind
of
push
that
aside
and
and
free
yourself
to
create?
You
just
have
to
know
what
shapes,
what
colors,
what
you
know?
What
does
a
duck's
beak?
Look
like
what
does
their
tail
look
like?
You
have
to
know
all
those
things,
but
ultimately,
what
I
had
to
do?
B
I
did
the
very
first
painting
I
ever
did
to
show
Simon
&
Schuster
was
a
painting
of
little
quack
and
mom
and
duck,
and
actually
it
looked
very
much
like
this
one.
It
looked.
This
is
not
the
very
first
picture
that
I
did
of
little
quack,
but
it
looked
a
lot
like
this
one
and
I
sent
it
off
to
my
editor
and,
and
she
called
me
right
away,
she
was
so
excited
and
she
said
Derek.
This
is
amazing,
we
love
it.
B
You
know
and-
and
she
said,
but
all
the
ducklings
can't
be
little
yellow
fuzzy
ducklings.
We
won't
be
able
to
tell
them
apart,
and
so
we
were
talking
about
different
ways.
We
could
tell
them
apart,
like
she
said
what,
if
what,
if
we
put
hats
on
them
or
glasses,
and
but
I
really
wanted
them
to
be
able
to
be
told
apart.
The
way
people
can
be
told,
apart
with
different
sizes
and
weights
and
hairstyle
and
colors,
and
so
I
went
and
did
another
painting.
B
B
All
summer
shorter,
some
have
you
know:
Whittle
I
gave
her
a
flower
on
her
head,
waddle,
I
kind
of
gave
Bed
Head,
so
he's
got
feathers
off.
The
back
of
his
pedal
is
in
the
middle.
I
gave
her
kind
of
curls
puddles,
just
cool
he's
kind
of
got.
The
punk
hairdo
going
yeah
and
little
quack
is
the
star
of
the
show.
So
I
made
him
the
smallest
and
most
endearing
and
once
I
sent
that
to
them.
Then
they
they
knew.
You
know
they
said
this.
B
A
B
A
B
A
B
B
Come
in
all
kinds
of
different
ways
in
10
pigs,
the
clouds
opened
and
this
gift
was
delivered
to
me.
It
literally
was
a
gift
like
I.
Just
it
came
to
me
the
idea
fully-formed,
not
not
necessarily
the
text
of
the
book,
but
the
idea
with
this
pig
wanting
to
just
take
a
bath
by
himself
with
his
rubber
duck
and
then
all
these
other
pigs
coming
and
kind
of
you
know
I
mean
getting
in
his
way
getting
in
the
way
of
him
enjoying
his
bath,
and
so
it
just
I
mean
over
a
few
walks.
B
A
B
My
new
book
I
have
two
books
coming
out
in
September
and
they're
about
these
two
characters
named
croc
and
Allie
and
and
croc
is
grumpy
and
he's
a
crocodile
and
Allie
is
kind
of
this
bright
light.
This
happy-go-lucky
super
fun
character.
It's
funny,
I
came
up
with
this
idea
a
long
time
ago.
I
mean
it
was
probably
eight
or
nine
years
ago.
I
came
up
with
this
idea
for
this.
B
It's
not
so
much
necessarily
about
the
plot.
Each
book
has
three
stories
in
them,
but
it's
all
about
the
interactions
between
this
grumpy
crocodile
in
this
happy-go-lucky,
very
funny
alligator.
So
the
first
book
is
called
friends
forever
and
the
second
book
is
called
fun,
fun,
fun
and
they
come
out.
September,
25th
and
I
couldn't
be
more.
A
So
it's
so
fabulous
we'd
love
having
your
books
in
our
in
our
collection
and
sharing
them
in
our
story
times
at
the
Ames
Public
Library,
but
I
also
know
that
in
my
story,
time
or
in
all
of
our
story
times
and
programs,
we
have
the
the
young
person.
That's
in
the
audience.
That
would
would
love
to
be
an
author
or
be
an
illustrator.
What
kind
of
words
of
wisdom?
Would
you
tell
them
what
they
should
do
to
work
for?
Okay,
I.
B
You
have
to
believe
you
have
to
believe
so
when
I
believed
that
I
was
a
writer
and
I
believed
that
I
was
an
artist,
it
wouldn't
matter,
then,
when
I
tried
to
draw
something-
and
it
didn't
turn
out,
because
I
knew
I
was
an
artist,
and
so
you
learn
from
it.
You
push
it
aside
and
then
you
try
again
and
that's
how
you
grow
and
keep
getting
better
I
mean
anyone.
That's
seen
my
how
the
Easter
Bunny
saved
Christmas
book
knows.
B
This
is
not
how
I
draw
the
Easter
Bunny
today
it's
changed
a
lot,
but
it's
because
I
kept
trying
things
I
kept.
Trying
new
things
made.
Mistakes
had
failures
along
the
way,
but
always
pushed
beyond
those
failures,
and
never
they
were
never
roadblocks.
They
were
obstacles
that
you
move
past
and
whenever
you
do
that,
when
you
believe
you
don't
give
up,
you
keep
after
it
and
you
you
and
when
people
were
telling
me
that
you
know
that
publishing
is
hard.
You
know
there's
a
good
chance
that
you're
not
going
to
get
published.
B
That
didn't
matter
to
me,
because
I
believed
I
knew
that
this
could
happen
and
I
didn't.
Have
any
connections
in
publishing,
I
didn't
know
any
authors
or
illustrators,
but
I
believed
that
it
was
possible
and
I
believe
that
I
could
a
good
author
and
a
good,
illustrator
and
and
now
I
made
over
25
books,
yeah.