OTTO: The Boy Who Loved Cars, my latest picture book with illustrator Scott Magoon, is the story of what happens to a boy who loves one thing a little too much. It wasn’t too hard for me to write, considering my husband, Scott (not Magoon!), is a car-fanatic. Scott inherited this fervor from his father, who used to race Porsches and Triumphs and Jaguars back in the 1960s.
Here’s a photo of Scott’s father driving a Porsche 356 in 1962:
When Scott’s father passed away, my husband inherited something else from him: his 1967 Porsche 911S. The car needed a LOT of TLC, as it had been sitting up on blocks in Scott’s father’s garage for decades. My husband started the process of restoring it right around the time we first started dating, and it was finished a few days before we got married. In fact, the first time I sat in the canary-yellow Porsche was when we drove away from our wedding; it made the coolest getaway car!
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