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Jack Gantos
Jack Gantos: "While I Was In College, I Began Writing Stories About Animals. When I First Met Nicole Rubel She Was A Painting Student... We Had A Friend Who Thought We Had A Similar Sense Of Humor. So We Teamed Up And Began Working Together On Picture Books ... At First I Thought Children's Books Had To Be Sweet, Warm, And Gentle ... After [Several] Failures, I Was Very Frustrated. Then I Remembered What One Of My Teacheers Told Me. He Said, 'You Should Write About What You Know: ' I Was Sitting At My Desk And I Looked Down On The Floor And Saw My Lousy, Grumpy, Hissing Creep Of A Cat That Lov
