As soon as Lynn Jeffcott could toddle and talk, she shadowed
her mother and father with a book in hand, pointing to the print and endlessly asking, "Mom, what's this letter and that letter? Dad, what words do they make?" She hungered for letters and words as much as she did her precious penny candy.
She quickly discovered that words were like the ingredients her mother used to bake a cake --in the right measurements, they produced something sweet and appealing. Anxious to become a confectioner, she wrote her first manuscript, John's Adventures, at seven. Her second grade teacher, Mrs. Scho more...
