Snaggleloopus began as an individual writing assignment in Wyman Elementary School in Winchester, Massachusetts. The fourth- and fifth-grade students then bound their stories and read them to the kindergartners. Years later for some reason I kept Snaggleloopus and read it to my kids as a bedtime story. It was never published. My daughter suggested we make it even better with her illustrations and suggestions. She thought it was a good lesson about dreams and bullying. So the summer of 2007 we started working on it. Then we submitted it for publication.