Are any of Maggie's playmates based on characters (or imaginary friends/toys) from either of your personal experiences?

Betty: All the characters are pieces from people we have met. There is a little bit of everyone in anything an author writes about. We are all a part of who we have met, as the saying goes.

When and how did you realize you had created something very special?

Michael: Is it? We always struggle to make everything we do even better...we never really thought of it that way.

Our first introduction to your work came via Nick, Jr. and Noggin; but Maggie's first adventures in Nowhere Land took place in books. How did she, Beast and her friends make the leap from the page to popular TV show?

Michael: The key to this show was letting my mother Betty write 60 of the 90 seven-minute scripts. The writing of a series is the key to the show. You can suffer through bad animation, but never bad writing. I don't know of any other kids' show that was based on a children's book that was written that much by the creator. I did pen two shows to my mother's 60 scripts. At least I managed to do that! Betty does have a great talent for writing dialogue.