english: When my first children's book was published in 2001, I returned to my old elementary school to talk to the students about being an author and an illustrator, and when I was setting up my slide projector in the cafetorium, I looked across the room, and there she was: my old lunch lady.
non_english: Kada je moja prva knjiga za decu objavljena 2001. godine, vratio sam se u moju staru osnovnu školu da pričam sa učenicima o tome kako je biti pisac i ilustrator, i dok sam postavljao projektor u kantini, pogledao sam po prostoriji, tu je bila ona: moja stara školska kuvarica.