So again, I went through now two books looking
for all the details to try to indicate who
are these — you know, who are these kids?
And I noticed in Iggy Peck, Architect, when
Iggy is designing the bridge and all the kids
are working, there's one girl — and she's
doing something super important, but she's
standing there like this, and she's thinking.
So she's standing sort of off to the side
while everyone else is gathering shoelaces
or sticks, or one girl's actually eating the
lollipops in the basket for lunch.
So Ada, she sits and does this, and I thought,
"This kid's a thinker.
This kid is curious.
She is trying to figure out, 'Okay, how do
we make the best bridge?
Why would it work if we do this?
What kind of — what, why, when, where, how?'
She's the kid who's curious."
And so that's where Ada Twist came from.
Just — it's a book about absolute curiosity.
So for all three of those stories, even though
— so she ends up being a scientist, and
Iggy's an architect, and Rosie is an engineer.
I don't really approach them as exploring
those careers, even though people think, "Oh,
so you write about engineers," but I don't.
I write about kids, and I write about their
passions and being true to themselves and
curiosity and perseverance and those kind
of things because I think that's far more
interesting, and it's far more universal.
