![]() ![]() ![]() Newman, a full-time writer and poet at the time, chronicles Heather’s love of all things “two,” including her moms, one a doctor and the other a carpenter. “If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have found an author. “Every step I was educating people about our family because there was nothing else,” recalled Jacobson. Newman wrote the story in 1988, after a chance encounter in Northampton with Amy Jacobson, a lesbian mom who was looking for reading material that better reflected her life with her partner - now wife - and their young daughter, who is now grown. The latest edition, out this month, is from Candlewick Press, with illustrations by Laura Cornell replacing those of Diana Souza. Heather was Newman’s first picture book and is certainly her most well-known. “I don’t know where I could have smoothly inserted that into the text. ![]() “I don’t specifically say that they’re married, but they are,” Newman explained from her home just outside Northampton, Massachusetts. ![]() There’s one big change, but you have to squint to notice: Heather’s Mama Kate and Mama Jane wear little matching rings on their marriage fingers. Maureen Ryan's Hollywood Takedown Book Storms to Top of the Charts ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |