Susan Laughs

"Jeanne Willis has consistently come up with wonderful texts ideal for picture books. And of course, you will have come across some of those. She has written a great many books. In Susan Laughs I find it amazing how she gently, gently steers the reader to the fact that there can be handicapped children that do things that able-bodied children would do. And, I think the lesson is that we should be careful that we don’t look down on any disability. So many people can do a lot of things that you probably think they couldn’t do. The final page gives you that wonderful surprise. If I’m proud of anything, as a publisher, it’s to have found interesting new stories but also to have been able to find the artists who were suitably inspired by these stories to bring them to life."