In August, 2008, I joined a small team at Girl Scouts of the USA that was hard at work on a large project: producing Girls Scouts’ second set of journey books, It’s Your Planet—Love It! My job was to supervise the design of six books for girls and six guides for adults (over 1200 pages in all). We had a killer deadline. Manuscripts were still in progress, and the books had to be in stores in summer, 2009.

In November we chose Alexander Isley Inc. to design the journeys, and I worked closely with their staff over the next five months. They did an amazing job of bringing the journeys to life.