Helena Ku Rhee's parents were night janitors for a law office in LA. They couldn't afford a babysitter, so they brought her along. 'I wanted to write a book about that magic and wonder they instilled in me,' the author says. So that's what she did.
Pascal Campion/Random House Books for Young ReadersWhen Daniel tags along with his parents to work — they are janitors in a big office building — he's surprised to find a fantasy world full of kings, queens, a throne room and dragons.. Her parents were night janitors for a law office in Los Angeles. They couldn't afford a babysitter, so they brought her along.
All these years later, nights are still special to Rhee: Decades after her parents took her along to clean law offices, Rhee became a corporate lawyer — and now nighttime is when she can write.Pascal Campion/Random House Books for Young Readers"The Paper Kingdom," Papa said."Didn't we tell you before? This is the land of the Paper King!""I was driving at night on Wilshire Boulevard in L.A. when I got the idea for the story," she says.
These days, he wakes up before dawn, around 4:30 or 5:00 a.m."I love being awake before everybody else ... it's my own world," he says.Pascal Campion/Random House Books for Young Readerson Instagram,
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