Stamford’s Karen Piersa needed to find an illustrator when her book, “The Wishing Shell,” got the go ahead to be published. Not knowing anyone suitable, she asked her sons’ art teacher Susan Ramsey at Springdale Elementary School, whether she knew anyone.
“What about me?” Ramsey said. That's how their partnership started. The art teacher was in unchartered territory — "The Wishing Shell" was her first book. Ramsey had to learn how to make her drawings go with the words on the page, instead of having her art go with her feelings. It took her about six weeks to finish all the beach ...
