Six years ago I visited the American School of Bombay in Mumbai, India. It was a week that still fills all of my senses with memories, the smells, the sounds, the tastes, the people, the colors! I have been invited back for another week and this time I am presenting with my daughter, Ruby Smith, a choreographer and dancer currently living in Tangier, Morocco. She will be teaching dance and storytelling through movement, while I teach book-making, writing, and illustrating to the elementary students. 

Here are some pictures from my last visit. We are also traveling to the city of Chennai to present there as a book-dance team to the American International School of Chennai. I am packed and ready to leave a quiet, gray-white winter in Minnesota behind for the sounds and colors of India. And what does an author-illustrator pack? A few clothes and good walking shoes, but mostly art supplies and sketchbooks, lined paper for stories to write, and books to read . (Yes, I still prefer *real* books to e-books. :-)