Ellie has been drawing for years. We came up with the idea of a cute, spicy little girl as a character many years ago. Maybe as I dig through our old stuff (if I have time ….) I will learn when it was that she was officially ‘born’ in our minds. I did come across some versions of Page 1 in our first picture book we were working on. We re-visited this book as Ellie grew and her skills evolved. So here is Bernadette during the 5-8 years ago range:
Bob makes an appearance on one page of the book, but he isn’t keeping her inline as her sidekick yet. Once we got to Version 3, we actually printed a version of the book for us. I’ll find a copy, and we can take a look at that next time.