please welcome vashti harrison! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ hi! ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] okay.to steal your jacket. first of all, i love this book. i love, love this book. oh, i can't cry. the illustrations for this book are beautiful. and i was looking through it, they are very emotive and it actually made me think of looking at a memory. i think it's the best way to look at it. because i like in illustration there isn't lines. usually, when you see a cartoon or illustration, this is a drawing. i think the idea that it gave me was almost looking back. so when you are doing a book like this, what comes first? the drawings or the text? >> for me, it happens at the same time. drawing is always where i get my ideas. what you are picking up on is something that i absolutely put into the book. i wanted it to feel soft, wanted it to feel really internal. i hope that comes through for everybody. >> dulce: obviously, the title "big" connotes a physical size, but in the book, "big" means a lot more. can you talk about what the bigness means here? >> yeah. i was thinking a lot about how