Aimee Chan (the author) is Grandma Edna’s granddaughter-in-law. Aimee had always wanted to interview Edna so one day they sat down and spent several hours recording some conversations about Edna’s life.
Later when Aimee went to check the recordings, she realised they had all disappeared. As you can imagine, she was extremely upset! She had wanted to share those recordings with her kids and she started to imagine what her kids would have thought and felt listening to Grandma Edna’s stories. That’s when the idea for a children’s book came about.