My daughter (7yrs old) and I (43 yrs old with epilepsy) have been thinking of doing a book for quite a long time. My daughter was the one who came up with the idea when she saw me writing my book. I thought it would be fantastic, poignant, and just an incredible way to help kids understand that there are others out there who have a disability in the family, especially one involving a parent. My daughter is wonderfully brave. If you can imagine this, she has had to deal with medics in the US, UK, and Germany (she is bi-lingual) for emergencies involving me or my husband (diabetes Type 1). I have started entering the disability rights community and I wonder if there is potential for this to be a series in terms of other disabilities. But here I get ahead of myself. If you want a better sense of who I am you could take a look at the Amazon book page for A GREAT PLACE FOR A SEIZURE (.com and .co.uk--the US site has more reviews than the UK site). We think it would be between 15 to 20 pages. But you could give us a better impression of what it would need. We would want to target the book to children between 3 to 6. The book would be a conversation between two kids who meet on the playground, but there would be images of their life in between. We do not have it written down, we just throw out ideas to each other occasionally. We would want a sense of what the illustrator thinks they could handle, such as difficult pictures involving a woman having a seizure, a woman unconscious, taking medicine, and perhaps even a woman isolated in a room, thinking about the pressure of the effect of the seizures on her family and her child, and reactions of horror when the woman has a seizure in public with her child present. These pictures would be important to us, they would have to be in there. But we would also expect to have images of a woman reading a book, a child under a tree thinking about what's happening, cooking together with the mom, a mom taking a briefcase to work, people together eating with the family, playing with her children, visiting a doctor, wearing a Medic-Alert bracelet and not wearing one. We could incorporate elements of first aid, but not specific, just advice relayed in a subtle manner (for example there would be a picture of a child calling an ambulance but we would leave the number blank--then at the bottom of the page give a suggestion to the parents to put the number of the emergency services there because in different countries the ambulance number is different in the US, UK, Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand etc). Perhaps we would have a child wondering whether her mother would die and how to communicate this I don't know. In a picture and in words it would be so hard. I don't know whether we would have it in there. It would also have a page at the end with information websites the parents and children could visit. I would also consider a page of advice to parents (e.g. get a bracelet, write names of emergency numbers and have them on the fridge so children know, let this be open about the disability so friends and people in the community understand what is happening etc). I also wondered whether we could make it into two books so that one side would be my Mommy Sometimes Has Seizures and then were the child to flip the book over It would read as My Daddy Sometimes Has Seizures. OR whether one child in the book would have a Mommy with seizures and the other child would have a Daddy who has seizures. This would let the child identify with more children and apply to more children. This is on the experimental side, but I think it is valuable. It would save us costs for publishing, but it would also help children see the random nature of disability and in terms of gender differences a child would see the Mommy and the Daddy figure as people who have seizures and both are equally vulnerable. Men actually have a much harder time accepting the condition and this is important for them because they often cannot communicate their feelings to their child about this vulnerability. The book of My Mommy Sometimes Has Seizures/My Daddy Sometimes Has Seizures would be self-published. We would be prepared to pay to publish it. Could you please tell me about the whole rights transfer between illustrator and author and how it works with you? Also I have put $1000 in the box for the price to pay but this is negotiable because, frankly, I have no idea how much it would reasonably cost for such a project. Regards, Keywords: Children's Book Illustration, Book, Illustration, Children', Freelance