Many children want to know where stories come from and how a book is made Marie Louise Gay s new picture book provides them with some delightfully inspiring answers in a fictional encounter between an author and some very curious children, who collaborate on writing and illustrating a story Marie Louise has scribbled, sketched, scrawled, doodled, penciled, collaged and painted the words and pictures of a story within a story that show how brilliant ideas creep up on you when you least expect it and how words sometimes float out of nowhere asking to be written.