K. Michael Crawford

@k.michaelcrawford

About

I like to see theworld in a silly way and when I come across something whimsical it hasa major effect on my writing and art. Maurice Noble, a Disney Animator,told me once that if you want your work to be 3-D then you need to havea 3-D life. Lots of experiences and lots of adventures. So with that inmind, I go on lots of adventures, even if it has nothing to do withwhat I am working on. You never know when or where you will getinspiration from and it can come in the strangest ways. Years ago, Iwent to the Cryptology and Spy Museum around the same time of year anda friend asked me why I went there. I told them I didn't know, but Ijust wanted to go and see them. Well, as it turns out, I used what Ilearn at both of those museums in my latest books. Most important thingI found out is that I would make a really good spy. And that's animportant skill in life.  So if this Children's Book Work doesn't payoff I have a new career path. When I create, I take things in from alldifferent sources and then my mind mixes them up. When the time isright, my brain spits out an idea in the funniest way.

With my books, I try to fill in spaces that are lacking inChildren's lives. I noticed over the last few years that kids werelosing their imagination. So I created The Mystery of Journeys Crowneand Batty Malgoony's Mystic Carnivale, so that kids could increasetheir imagination.