She often creates a draft of each book, and then she’ll usually send it around to some of her neighbours and let them read it to their younger children and see how well the kids follow it. Kids in her Ann Arbor, Michigan, neighborhood help Shaw write books that are challenging but not beyond a child’s comprehension. Houghton assigned the Sheep in a Jeep manuscript to illustrator Margot Apple, creating a successful partnership that has continued through each of the later "Sheep" books. Two years passed while Shaw sent the book to various publishers, received several rejection notices, and finally found a very good editor at Houghton Mifflin who helped her make the story just a little bit more coherent. She began by reading books on how to write and sell picture books, then gathered publishers’ addresses from Writers’ Market and Literary Marketplace. Boring car trip inspired Nancy Shaw's first book, Sheep in a Jeep.
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