Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Jacqueline Briggs Martin is an inspiration. Her unique style of writing reflects her love of the environment, and inspires readers to create their own imaginative world. She writes from her own experiences and creates surreal concepts that spark the interest of readers everywhere. Over the years Jacqueline has received the majority of her inspiration to write Children's Literature from her own children. The memories she cherished during Sarah and Justin's early years, include reading to her young ones regularly. This is the primary factor that drove Jacqueline to write books that both adults and children could enjoy together. When Jacqueline was growing up she did not have much access to literature and spent minimal time reading and writing in school. I think that this limited environment is what caused her to take what she knew about her own life and create a magical world that she never knew possible. She inspires me as a writer to broaden my horizons, and to write from what I know in new and exciting perspectives. I was intrigued when I found out that her literary perspectives come directly from events that have taken place in her own life since her stories are so original. It's refreshing to think that everyday experiences can be turned into something as extraordinary as a Children's Book by Jacqueline Briggs Martin.