Allyn Johnston

Jan 18, 2024 | hbook.com | Pamela Brunskill |Laurel Weber Snyder |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Allyn Johnston

Lois Ehlert (1934–2021) and I first met when I was twenty-four and an editorial assistant at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (HBJ) in San Diego. We went on to work together for thirty-five years, and we made twenty-nine books. Lois had a fondness for nicknames, and while we were working on one of our earliest picture books, Feathers for Lunch, she learned that I had been a birder since I was a girl, so she started calling me Tweeter.