This is Crazy!
Self-publishing a book is admitedly a fairly nutty thing to do. I have 5,000 of these books in MY HOUSE. I am packing these myself, taking them to the post office myself and generally just doing it all myself. The entire notion may be doomed to failure, I get that. But if I get just one book in front of one little person and that little person goes on to enjoy a life time of reading, I think I will have accomplished exactly what I set out to do.
Your Stories
Do you have a personal story to share about your experience with the book? Please send me your stories! right here at the website for others to read, or just for my eyes only. You can even send in a picture. I love pictures of kids with the book!
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The Whole Story
Ba Ba Ha Ha was created for my daughter, Lila, when she was just under a year old. I made hundreds of drawings and showed them to her one at a time. The ones she looked at longest and smiled at were set aside. The ones she ignored, I tossed. I went on like this for quite some time, re-testing each image with Lila to make sure they really did work. I ended up with the final drawings that make up Ba Ba Ha Ha.
Six years later, in 1996, Harper Collins brought the book into print. A year later, in 1997, the publisher informed me they would no longer continue to publish it, even though they had sold out.
Lila is now 18 years old and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Between 1997 and today, I have spent a great deal of time programming and creating complex systems for the internet. I formed a small company that builds and supports internet shopping carts and all types of other systems in wide use on the internet. In all of that time, I have never given up hope that this little book will make its way back into the hands of toddlers, where it belongs.
The book that is being printed is an exact duplicate of the original book. I thought it was important to make it EXACTLY the same because to this day, I am really not sure what makes them special to little people. There is something about them, I don't know what, that toddlers are simply drawn to.
Share your own story about Ba Ba Ha Ha here
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