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Lyn Kriegler

writer/illustrator, featured in The School Library, Issue 2, 2009

My parents in America read to me every night from as early as I can remember. I had a teddy bear that I used to whisper the stories to after lights out; and I pretended my bed was a big car that I could drive up into the night sky, roaming with Teddy. I liked making puppet theatres out of shoe boxes and put on shows using soft toys and making funny voices. I began making ‘accordion’ books when I was eight, by folding long strips of paper, drawing on each page and adding what words I could spell.

From an early age I told everyone my goal was to be an artist and a writer. I drew on everything: walls, mirrors, and my little sister’s arms. I taught myself how to use pastels, oils, watercolours, charcoal and acrylic. I made paints from ground-up chalk and mud. By the age of 10, my bedroom was my studio with a hand-painted sign, ‘Do not disturb: writer/artist at work’, on the door.

I joined Writers in Schools in 1990. I love sharing my skills with children, storytelling with my puppets, and hearing what children have to say about their own story ideas, poems, drawings, and dreams.