According to author, Lisa Ambler: “Feeling that the world was changing and that people were losing their sense of living in secure times, I wrote this book and completed the illustrations before 9/11. (Note that the drawing on page 26 looks something like New York City near the World Trade Center after it was hit.)” “Shortly after completion, the illustrations and text were mounted for an exhibit in Vail, Colorado where many people left me notes saying that the book spoke to them.”