When her daughter Olivia was a toddler, Chupack, a veteran TV and film writer and two-time Emmy winner, was invited to read a special picture book to the preschool class to celebrate Olivia’s birthday. As she turned the pages, Chupack quietly struggled with lines like “You were in my tummy” and other references that did not reflect her experience of starting a family through adoption.
Chupack drew on her own experience to craft a rhyming story that explains the steps along the way and the anticipation that adoptive parents face. Chupack went through many rounds of fertility treatments on her five-year journey to becoming a mother. Chupack’s many credits include “Sex and the City,” “Modern Family,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Fleishman Is in Trouble” and nonfiction books “The Longest Date: Life as a Wife,” “The Between Boyfriends Book” and “Dispatches From the Dating Front Lines.” Writing a children’s book was “always on my professional bucket list,” Chupack says, but it become a bigger priority when she saw first-hand how Olivia was shaped by the books and media she encountered.