The author’s father–who worked as a type compositor with the BELFAST TELEGRAPH, and whose favorite books were westerns–is the person Sam McBratney credits for giving him his love of the English language. “But, as the frog trapped in the milk discovered, if you keep going, sometimes you find yourself walking on cream cheese.” Where does Sam McBratney get his inspiration? “I told my children stories when they were young,” he says, “so when I write I try to think of what they would have liked.” But there may be another source guiding his writing as well. “This is not the sort of thing you expect when most of your books have been remaindered,” the author admits. The fifty-seventh book of Sam McBratney’s career, and his first book with Candlewick Press, was the much-loved GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU, which has sold an astonishing 15 million copies worldwide, and is available in 37 languages. But he continued writing for a more-personal reason: “the act of imagining simply makes me feel good,” he says. He started writing children’s books when he was a teacher in his thirties, with the aim of helping out students who had trouble reading. Sam McBratney Author of Guess How Much I Love You pdf Book was born in 1943.
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