When asked about her earlier endeavors into illustrations during an interview, she mentioned that though she loves drawing, she decided her "strength was in writing and not in illustration” and said "I don’t think I would illustrate a whole book anymore at this point". Since her editor chose Felicia Bond to illustrate Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie book, she has not illustrated another book.
When Numeroff began her career she served as her own illustrator her first 9 books were both written and illustrated by Numeroff herself. Numeroff has worked with numerous illustrators including Lynn Munsinger, David McPhail, Tim Bowers, Nate Evans, Joe Mathieu, Sal Murdocca, Sharleen Collicott, and Felicia Bond Felicia Bond was the illustrator of the “If You Give. A homework assignment for one of these classes prompted Numeroff to write the story Amy for Short, and in 1976, the story was published by Macmillan Publishing and launched Laura Joffe Numeroff's writing career.
Eventually though, Numeroff came to terms with the fact that fashion "wasn't for me" and began taking a class on writing as she returned to her previous dream of becoming a writer. When it came time for Numeroff to apply for college, she followed her sister footsteps and majored in fashion. As she once pointed out in an interview, both stories not only captured her attention but also sported main characters that lived in her very own city of New York. White’s Stuart Little and Kay Thompson’s Eloise. She credits her current profession to two specific childhood favorites and has claimed that they “are the reason” she is a writer: E. As a child, Numeroff was an avid reader and by the age of 9 had decided she wanted to be a writer when she grew up. Numeroff was born in Brooklyn, New York, and is the youngest of three girls.
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