Colleen McCarthy-Evans’s ‘Why Am I’

Longtime Santa Barbara Creative Discusses New Children’s Book and Seven Seas Press

Colleen McCarthy-Evans’s ‘Why Am I’

Longtime Santa Barbara Creative Discusses New Children’s Book and Seven Seas Press

By Matt Kettmann

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The creative life of Colleen McCarthy-Evans runs from improv theater and charter schools to board games and, most recently, writing and illustrating children’s books. 

Her latest is Why Am I, a book about big questions illustrated by Sarah Dietz of Germany. The book, which was named the “Book of the Year” by Creative Child Magazine, was published by Seven Seas Press, a three-year-old, Santa Barbara–based nonprofit that donates English and bilingual books both locally and internationally.

McCarthy-Evans tells us more below. 

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