![]() I’d been drawing lots and lots of penguins, and I wrote Portly’s Hat. I graphic design, and when you’re at the Royal College of Art, you get a free pass to the zoo. I felt an affinity with small children at the age they haven’t been shaped or molded. For as long as I can remember I always wanted to be an artist. My mum and dad are artists, and they both had studios at home. How did you get interested in writing and illustrating children’s books? Her final stop was a visit to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass., where an exhibit called “Our British Cousins: The Magical Art of Maisy and Friends” was on view. That was her penultimate stop on a tour that took her to several stores in New York City and the Greater Boston area. So when Cousins arrived for a brief visit earlier this month, PW jumped at the opportunity to catch up with her, at the Somerville, Mass., offices of her U.S. postage stamps and starred in the “Read with Kids Challenge” sponsored by Reading Is Fundamental and US Airways. In the intervening years Maisy has been featured on U.S. That was in 2000, just after Maisy debuted in her own TV series on Nick Jr. The last time British author and illustrator Lucy Cousins, who has more than 30 million books in print worldwide, visited this side of the pond was to celebrate the 10th birthday of her most famous creation, Maisy. ![]()
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