What was your favorite subject when you were in school and why?Įric: My two favorite classes were art and home economics. Family trips to Hawai’i and Australia stand out, and the whole time we lived in the Rosedale area of Toronto during the 1970s. Some periods of my childhood bring back beautiful memories. Terry: Snorkeling in Hanauma Bay ranks as one of my favorites as well, but I don’t have a specific happiest childhood memory. I’d probably be a little nervous about snorkeling in the ocean now, but a certain fearlessness comes with youth. I swam down and found myself surrounded by schools of colorful fish: trumpet fish, angel fish and parrot fish. Below me were enormous brain coral, bigger than I had ever seen before like luminous brains on the seafloor. The reef was still very healthy and bursting with color and life back then, and I remember swimming out past the shallow part of the reef, where it suddenly dropped off and got deeper. I love the ocean, and we spent a lot of time on the beach, or snorkeling in Hanauma Bay. We’re currently working on final art for our next picture book, but it’s still early days so I’m not sure we can talk about it too much at this point.Įric: That’s a tough one. What are some of your current and future projects that you can share with us? Reading is also simply fun - a doorway into a new adventure and into other worlds. A good story can expand the bandwidth of your imagination, and give you new ways of looking at the world, which in turn can impact your life in meaningful and tangible ways. Stories also give us a window into other people’s lives and experiences that we wouldn’t ordinarily have access to. By taking the often chaotic and random events of life and organizing them into a meaningful structure, we gain insight into the world, and into our own lives. Stories are one of the ways we make sense out of life. Why is storytelling so important for all of us?

It Fell from the Sky by Terry Fan