Jane is a native of Mississippi who moved to Shreveport in 1982 to work at The Shreveport Times and then spent time as a freelance writer and training coordinator for the Louisiana Small Business Development Center. I set myself some deadlines to push myself to do it…I didn't know anything about digital art and had never heard of Procreate or the Apple Pencil until a year ago.” And what her charming drawings might lack in expertise they more than make up for in a zest for her subject. The illustrations are challenging because I have such little art experience, It's a good thing we took lots of photos because I have them for reference… This was almost a test to see how self -publishing works.
“Creating this book and the others has been great therapy for me during the past year as I work through the grief process.” She found her first attempt at writing and illustrating a children’s book to be a healing project. “At first, I was just going to have these printed for our family, but people kept asking me how they could buy copies, so I published through Amazon.” She is now working on “Big Davy’s Haircutting Adventures,” “Big Davy Goes to the Grocery Store,” an ABC book “Big Davy’s Favorite Restaurants and a biography, books that she hopes will mean something to her family. “I am writing the books in rhymes because I don't think you can write about David any other way. He was a voracious reader of the Bible and books of all topics and always had highlighters and Moleskin journals in his pharmacy coat pockets to record not only information on drugs and hospital procedures but recipes, pithy sayings and other things he found interesting. He wrote poems with quirky rhymes to encourage his daughters, Claire and her sister, Mary Grace Allison Conant, when they were on church trips or in college. “It is very meaningful for me to have something tangible for her,” she said.ĭavid, a pharmacist at Oschner LSU Health for many years, had a keen sense of humor and always kept Dr. “He really would have everything yellow if he could…There are just so many stories, memories and quirks about him that can be told, and I’m excited to see more books in the future.”īeyond the memories the books evoke, Claire, married to Ben Caraway, loves the way it will connect their now 19-month-old daughter to David. This first book is general enough for any child to enjoy, but still reminds me of Dad,” Claire said. “My dad had such a unique, playful personality, so remembering him through a rhyming children’s book is perfect.
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