Sarah writes the words, David illustrates them.
David has just produced an autobiographical graphic novel - Stitches - and it is very different in scope and style from his gentle, humorous, lighthearted illustrations for the titles above. I haven't seen it yet but it sounds bleak and powerful - Stitches is being compared to Maus, the graphic novel which won the Pulitzer prize... See this link for a review on Booklist -
http://www.booklistonline.com/default.aspx?page=show_product&pid=3604681
which concludes with the sentence "If there’s any fight left in the argument that comics aren’t legitimate literature, this is just the thing to enlighten the naysayers." Ian Chipman.
Here is another review... http://bookends.booklistonline.com/2009/07/31/stitches-by-david-small/
David's own website is at http://davidsmallbooks.com/ and it includes some background to Sarah, with a picture of her (she looks just like characters in their books) and her amazing garden http://davidsmallbooks.com/sarah_bio.php
From here http://www.pippinproperties.com/authill/stewart/ you can get a wonderful idea of the sort of person Sarah is... She is an author who early developed a love for quiet, orderly places. The former Latin and philosophy student loved libraries and her grandmother's garden as a child, two loves that have carried over into the children's books she's written in collaboration with her husband, David. She has five gardens and an orchard in which she works daily from May until October. "Then much of the late fall and winter is spent in my library, daydreaming and reading and writing, on the second floor of our home. Like a small animal in hibernation, I make a warm nest in the old wing chair with my grandmother's quilt and the lamp and my beloved books. It is paradise."
Sarah talks about three things libraries and gardens have in common - quiet, order, and hope.
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